Autism School for Adelaide – Parents seeking financial backers.
For sale Quality Education Facility - photo courtesy of Brock Harcourts
The Adelaide Autism community is seeking to buy an education facility in the Adelaide Southern suburbs to develop a parent run, best practice, ASD therapy clinic and ASD Remedial Education Facility, similar to other Autism / ASD education facilities found in other Australian states such as:
- Autism Behavioural Intervention Queensland (ABIQ)
- Woodbury Autism Education and Research Limited – Baulkam Hills, NSW
- Giant Steps Tasmania & Sydney – Deloraine, TAS & Gladesville, NSW
- The Lizard centre – Chatswood, NSW
- Autism Early Intervention Outcomes Unit (aeiou) – Queensland
Adelaide is severely lacking in any formidable schools for children in the Autism Spectrum of Disorders (ASD) and would greatly benefit from having an education facility to specifically cater for for the ever increasing population of Autistic / ASD children.
Daryl and Rosina – Parents to 9yo ASD boy are heading a group of Adelaide parents to buy a very suitable education facility in the Southern suburbs – Click here to view, however they are in need of financial backing to be able to make their and many other parents aspirations come to fruition and get a much needed Autism School up and running in Adelaide.
“What would be fantastic is to have entrepreneurs like Australian of the year Simon McKeon in assisting in purchasing this $1.5M school
It would be ideal to have 15 Families to keep individual costs down to be able to purchase this already-made school ($1.5m) and turn it into a Specialist Autism Education Facility. However, right now we need to avail ourselves of some sincere, social entrepreneurs to help with financial start-up assistance.”
Parents of Autistic children have an ongoing battle to get their children suitably educated. The current choices in Adelaide are either Special Schools, Mainstream Schools or Home Schooling. Each has it’s advantages and disadvantages but most tend to have outweighing disadvantages.
To be able to have a dedicated Autism school for ASD children in Adelaide would definitely be a great weight off many Autism affected parents in Adelaide.
So if you have a BIG generous heart and a cheque book to match we would certainly like to hear from you.
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Hi, Thanks for publishing our cause,
Here is a little adjunct to the above info….
Tired of your existing career or need to get back into the workforce? For those interested in turning their disadvantages into advantages – The potential owners of the social enterprise could collectively be responsible for the business of 4 or 5 different cost centres if one includes the fund raising arm. These include…
*The Clinic and outreach component
*The school component
*ASD Service Provider shared services co-operative
*Training, Outreaches, Workshop and Function Centre Facility.
*Fundraising
Curriculum and Programmes:-
The Clinic and outreach component, working in tandem with the school component could provide low cost, regular speech pathology, Occupational Therapy, ABA or Floortime therapy, possibly even long-term regular sessions of psychologist assisted neurofeedback treatment and assessment, extracurricular sports activities and social programmes.
The school component could have specially made assisted technology student workstations to promote learning of maths, reading, drawing as well as writing amongst only relevant academic subjects. Self-help and fun programmes such as PE, arts-n-crafts, music, movement, dance and singing will achieve meaningful outcomes.
ASD Service Provider co-operative.
The other usefulness of the ready-made facility is that it could provide a co-operative one stop-shop of therapy modalities. Other ASD services providers could be shared services, housed on the same site and offer their services to the wider autism community or sub-contract their service to the school or clinic. Such service Providers could be OT, SP, ABA, RDI, DIR Floortime or any other ASD Specific practitioners or therapists.
Training, Outreaches, Workshop and Function Centre Facility.
Many interstate and OS service providers have found it difficult juggling the enormous travel cost and then hiring an expensive one day function centre to instruct small groups of trainers and parents in the art of new ASD treatment modalities. Having these facilities in-house will assist the school staff getting up to speed and being in the loop on all of the new and different treatment modalities as well as facilitate more local training and reduced cost expert training to our ASD community in this state.
Thanks again for posting – Cheers!
Daryl
Adelaide Dad to 9yo ASD boy
Although I can’t help financially, I would love to be involved in this cause in any way I can. Please contct me and let me know how I can help.
Ali Moss
My email is
Alison-moss@hotmail.com
I cant imagine how many kids need this school. Unfortunately I dont have the funds to back this as like most parents with a child with special needs our money seems to disappear with all the therapies. However, I am happy to do any foot work and would love to provide some ‘hands on’ assistance.
Thanks so much for all of your efforts.
Rebbecca Mercier (mum to 6year old boy with HFA and 2 more cherubs who are on the spectrum)
Hello i teach Art at Hillingdon Manor School in london to autistic children and it is the best experience i have had in teaching, it is very rewarding and i love it. My son is emigrating to Adelaide next year and i will be visting every summer holiday(six weeks 20th July to 3rd September) to visit my son and only granddaughter. But while i am in Adelaide i would love to come into your school and teach a workshop if this is possible? i look forward to hearing from you. Anna kennedy was the founder and director of my school. She was a parent that set up our school because she could not find suitable schooling for her sons. if you would like anymore information let me know. Janette
Hi Janette.
The proposed school for Adelaide is stll in it’s “raise funding and interest stage” I will however post this on the Adelaide Autism group forum, this is the main body lobbying for the “Autism school”. You may get some interest from other special and mainstream schools.
Thank you