Yellow Ukulele

Yellow Ukulele is a consortium of seven allied health businesses across New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland.  Member services formally established a community advisory board in 2022 and more recently became Yellow Ukulele.  We have over 100 years of collective experience in providing allied health support in the disability, health and education sectors, including specific support to young children and their families.  Our collective services have teams of over 300 staff and support more than 4000 NDIS participants and their families.

Foundational supports

Our group has a long history of providing high-quality supports that align with best practices in Early Childhood Intervention. This model of support is not new to us, and despite the constraints of government funding systems and the lack of supports in the public and community non-profit sectors, we have consistently provided these supports to our communities for many years. We were early adopters of NDIS provider registration as a demonstration of our commitment to quality services for young children and their families and to ensuring accessibility for vulnerable populations.

We have built the capacity of parents, carers, educators, and support networks around the child by focusing on participation in naturalistic settings, setting functional goals, and using routines-based practice models. We have actively co-designed programs with and for families of young children, delivering these programs promptly to reduce waiting times and optimise the use of funding for targeted, outcome-based supports. By building teams around the child and family, we collaborate within these networks to provide a coordinated response. Our interventions extend beyond discipline-specific approaches, emphasising education and capacity building for families to empower them to advocate for and enable a team of supports that work towards their vision for their child and family. In doing so, we have created highly skilled teams with a history of providing support aligned with best practices. Additionally, we have established systems and supports within our service to foster ongoing development and support for staff delivering these services. Our history of delivering best practice support to young children and families is clear.

The current omission of the private sector’s perspective is short-sighted and will pose challenges to implementing any future system. Yellow Ukulele is committed to working collaboratively to implement the Best Practice Model for Early Childhood Intervention and seeks representation in high-level discussions regarding the future of support for young children with disabilities and developmental delays and their families. 

Early Childhood Intervention

Foundational Supports

Response to Dept of Social Services Foundational Supports for Children