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08/05/2026

Independence is something we all want for our children. We want them to feel confident, capable, and able to navigate the world in their own way.

But we often see the idea that using supports will stop this from happening. That if we help too much, children won’t learn to do things on their own.

In reality, it’s often the opposite.

Support isn’t the opposite of independence. For many children, it’s the bridge that helps them get there.

And the truth is, none of us are ever fully independent. We all rely on someone or something to help us move through the world, whether that is people, routines, reminders, tools, technology, or the environments around us.

When children have the right supports in place, things feel more manageable. They can practise skills, build confidence, and begin to do more for themselves over time.

Independence doesn’t come from removing support. It grows from having the right support, at the right time.

05/05/2026

✨ Resource Share: Spot It ✨

Spot It is a fast-paced matching game we love using at Embrace. It looks simple, but underneath there are so many important skills being practised.

Here are a few ways we’ve used Spot It recently:

Describing our Match
Instead of just naming the match, we encourage children to describe it. “I found the small green cactus!”

Tongs Challenge
When children find a match, they use tongs to pick up their winning cards, adding a fun fine motor element.

Memory Round
We’ve played a version where children look at their card for 20 seconds, then flip it over and try to remember their symbols to find a match. This one is definitely a challenge, but great for building working memory.

Have Spot It at home? Try these ideas:

Movement Match
Place the cards on opposite sides of the room so children need to run between them to find the match.

Cooperative Mode
Work together to find the match instead of racing. Great for siblings who find competition tricky.

29/04/2026

The window of tolerance is a helpful way to think about regulation.

When someone is within their window of tolerance, they are generally feeling calm and settled enough to cope with what is going on around them. They are more able to focus, learn, problem-solve, and connect with others without feeling too overwhelmed or too shut down.

When someone moves outside that window, they may shift into hyperarousal or hypoarousal. This can happen for lots of different reasons, including stress, feeling unsafe, poor sleep, low support, sensory overload, or simply having too much asked of them all at once.

The window is not fixed, and the goal is not to always stay neatly within it. The goal is to better understand what helps, what makes things harder, and what support or strategies can help someone find their way back when needed.

16/04/2026

✨ Happy Birthday Jane✨

Jane is one of the amazing people on our team here at Embrace, and to celebrate her birthday, we wanted to share a little more about her and some of her special interests.

At Embrace, we talk a lot about special interests because they can be such a meaningful way to get to know someone. They can be a way of connecting, communicating, building relationships, and helping someone feel seen in the things they genuinely love.

So today, we’re sharing a few of Jane’s favourite things and the topics she might happily chat your ear off about if you see her in our clinic!

14/04/2026

If you’ve been inside our clinic or seen our socials, you probably already know that we are big fans of sensory trays and sensory play.

We love creating fun, engaging sensory trays, but they don’t need to be complicated to have so many benefits.

The things we’ve listed in this visual are just some of the reasons we use them. Sensory trays can also support communication, speech, joint attention, following directions, and emotional expression, along with so many other areas depending on the child and the goals we are working towards.

So while you might see us playing in a sensory tray during our sessions, what you’ll also see is lots of learning, connection, and skill-building happening alongside it.

07/04/2026

✨ Happy Autism Awareness Month ✨

Autistic people have always been here. Awareness does not change that.

The benefit of awareness is that it can help people better understand themselves or their child, access support earlier, and feel less alone in experiences that may have gone misunderstood for a long time.

Awareness asks us to keep questioning old ideas about autism, who gets noticed, and whose experiences have been missed.

For us at Embrace, Autism Awareness Month is a chance to keep learning, keep listening, and keep growing in the way we understand and support autistic people.

02/04/2026

Happy Easter from the Embrace team 🐣

Easter can be such a lovely time, but it can also feel chaotic, overstimulating, and full of pressure for the grown-ups holding it all together.

We created this post as a little Easter pick-me-up, with reminders you can take or leave this weekend.

We hope your Easter holds some fun, some softness, and a few moments where your inner child gets to come out and enjoy too. Most of all, we hope you find little opportunities to rest.

Love,
The Embrace Team

31/03/2026

✨ Celebration Post ✨

We have been having such a lovely time working with this little learner, and it has been so special to watch his communication continue to grow.

Each week, he has been becoming more vocal in sharing his ideas, and this week we had a great chat about the different bugs in our bug tray together.

It has also been wonderful to see his mechanical little mind at work. He is so clever at taking things apart and figuring out how they go. The train track has been a big favourite and such a lovely way to see that side of him shine.

25/03/2026

✨ Albury/Wodonga families ✨

We’re excited to open bookings for our Term 1 Holiday Sensory Groups, running across two weeks!

Each session offers a fun and supportive space for school-aged children to enjoy sensory play, take part in themed activities, and build social connections in a small group setting. Sessions are led by our experienced educators.

Families are welcome to book one session or multiple.

$70 per session (includes morning tea and all materials)
These groups are available to private and NDIS families.

Limited spaces available. Call us on 02 6047 0305 or email hello@embraceeducationservices.com.au to reserve your spot now!

Or book your spot at https://tinyurl.com/yhtzyysj

23/03/2026

We hope everyone had a wonderful Neurodiversity Celebration Week. It has been so lovely to see our feeds filled with so many thoughtful and meaningful ways people have chosen to celebrate.

One of the ways we have celebrated at Embrace has been by adding some new books to our shelves.

Some families may have already spotted a few of them in our waiting room, but we thought we would share them here too, along with some of the reasons we love them.

17/03/2026

Understanding whether autism or ADHD is present can take extra care when trauma or PTSD is also part of a child’s story, as some experiences may look similar.

This visual gives a simple overview of some of those overlaps and differences, while recognising that every person’s experience is different.

To really understand what is going on, a child needs to feel safe. That is why the first step in our assessment process is always helping children feel comfortable, seen, and heard, before we begin exploring any diagnostic questions.

Address

6/512 Swift Street
Albury, NSW
2640

Telephone

+61447675482

Website

http://www.embraceeducationservices.com.au/

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