We are pleased to announce that L.E.A.R.N. Australia is now open at 217 Canning Highway, East Fremantle.

L.E.A.R.N. (Learning, Education And Research Network) is the result of merging the business, staff and resources of two previous organisations, Early Intervention W.A. and The Early Intervention Centre. These have been brought together under one roof in an outstanding facility, which has been newly fitted out specifically to suit our needs.

The new L.E.A.R.N. centre will house 

• L.E.A.R.N. early intervention;
• The L.E.A.R.N. Training Centre, and
• The L.E.A.R.N. Educational Science Centre.

L.E.A.R.N. early intervention services are housed on the ground floor, offering parents a clinic based therapy setting and a centre at which to conduct program updates.

Darin Cairns has joined L.E.A.R.N. as our Senior Clinical Psychologist. Darin has overall responsibility for our comprehensive autism early intervention program. As well, he will oversee the L.E.A.R.N. Training Centre for training parents, therapists, teachers, teachers assistants, educational assistants and school psychologists in the principles of evidence based early intervention and education.

As always, parents are actively encouraged to participate in and observe therapy sessions at the centre so that they can maximise teaching opportunities outside of a direct therapy setting.  Parents will have the choice of undertaking therapy at our centre or at home, or a combination of both. 

The centre will bring us into line with research findings that the best outcomes and superior quality control have been obtained in programs with clinic based supervision and training of staff. In addition, due to parent demand, we will be running a centre based weekend and holiday social skills program – details of which will be announced shortly.