We offer a range of services individualized to your child and family needs, guided by our early childhood specialists who are dedicated to empowering children and providing neurodiversity support.
Growth for Central Coast Children supports a collaborative and holistic approach to empowering children and connecting families with the necessary supports to thrive.
Ashleigh is a passionate early childhood specialist who connects with families across the Central Coast, providing guidance and support for children and families seeking services that can work within a key worker model. This model aims to support the child and family in the home, school, and community settings to help them thrive.
With a Bachelor of Education and 14 years of experience in the Early Childhood Industry, Ashleigh has collaborated with many allied health services to offer neurodiversity support and assist children with diverse needs holistically.
If you have concerns about your child's development, Ashleigh can help guide you in connecting with the services needed for assistance. For families with a child who has an NDIS package, she can facilitate connections to the necessary supports based on the goals outlined in your child's NDIS plan. As a mother of three children with NDIS packages due to their individual needs, Ashleigh understands the challenges of navigating supports and finding services that align best with your child and family.
Additionally, Ashleigh can assist in building your child's capacity to work towards their NDIS goals, which may include enhancing their social, emotional, cognitive, and language development in preschool, home, and community environments.
Our team also includes three dedicated Therapy Assistants—Nikki, Shona, and Amye—who have strong backgrounds in Early Childhood Education and experience in supporting children and families. We share a deep commitment to giving back to our community and empowering children to grow, connect, and thrive.
At Growth for Central Coast Children, we believe every child deserves to feel safe, heard, and seen as they navigate their world. When children feel emotionally secure and deeply understood, their capacity to learn, grow, and connect expands.
**Connection**
We provide a supportive and understanding connection, walking alongside families and children so they feel safe, included, and supported throughout their journey. Our role as early childhood specialists is to empower children and families during this critical time.
**Understanding**
Challenging behaviors are a form of communication. We look beneath the surface to understand the “why,” using trauma-informed, strengths-based practices that include neurodiversity support.
**Inclusion**
Every child is unique. We adapt our supports to meet each child and family exactly where they are, ensuring inclusion for all.
**Growth**
Development is a journey. We support small steps, meaningful progress, and ongoing learning for children and the adults around them, empowering children to reach their fullest potential.
**Authenticity**
We show up with honesty, openness, and genuine care. We build real, meaningful relationships by being true to who we are and creating spaces where families and children feel safe to be themselves.
Our mission is to make a difference in our community and create safe spaces for children to feel safe, seen, and supported throughout their developmental journey.
We provide holistic, relationship-based early intervention that strengthens communication, emotional regulation, sensory awareness, independence, and learning across home, preschool, and community settings. Our training includes delivering brain-body programs that support children's development through the integration of primitive reflexes.
We walk alongside families with authenticity, compassion, and evidence-based support, helping each child grow into their fullest potential.
At Growth for Central Coast Children, our team of early childhood specialists employs evidence-based early-childhood and therapeutic frameworks to support children’s development across home, school, and community environments. Every session is personalized, relational, and grounded in best-practice approaches, empowering children to thrive.
Primitive Reflex Integration (Brain-Body Gym)
We support children in integrating early reflexes that influence coordination, regulation, attention, and posture. This approach strengthens balance, coordination, motor planning, core stability, and whole-body confidence, while also addressing retained reflexes that impact movement and learning.
Sensory Processing Support
We help children understand their sensory needs and develop strategies to remain calm, organized, and ready to learn. Our neurodiversity support ensures that each child’s unique sensory profile is respected and nurtured.
Executive Functioning Skill Support
We focus on strengthening working memory, attention, planning, flexible thinking, organization, impulse control, and emotional regulation through meaningful, everyday strategies tailored to each child’s needs.
Growth Mindset Skill Building
Our programs support children in developing resilience, positive self-talk, confidence, and the ability to approach challenges with curiosity and courage.
Nervous System Regulation & Emotional Safety
We teach children to understand their internal states and employ regulation tools such as breathing, grounding, movement, co-regulation, and sensory supports to foster emotional safety.
Zones of Regulation
We build emotional awareness and teach strategies that help children safely navigate between different regulation states.
Match & Lead Connection Approach
By following the child’s lead and meeting them where they are, we build trust, connection, and relational safety, essential for effective learning.
Co-Regulation to Self-Regulation Pathways
We provide safety and attunement through a regulated adult, allowing children to gradually learn to self-regulate independently.
Play-Based Skill Building
Utilizing meaningful play experiences, we strengthen communication, problem-solving, social interaction, and foundational learning skills.
Connection Before Correction
We believe children learn best when they feel safe, understood, and emotionally supported. Every session begins with connection, creating the foundation for learning, exploration, and growth.