Daphne Street Autism Specific Early Learning and Care Centre (ASELCC), provides specialist education, child care and state of the art therapeutic services for children with Autism.

Daphne Street Autism Specific Early Learning and Care Centre (ASELCC), provides specialist education, child care and state of the art therapeutic services for children with Autism.
Anglicare SA’s Autism-Specific Early Learning and Care Centre (ASELCC) provides high-quality early intervention, specialist education and care for children with autism in a long day care setting.
The centre has experienced staff, qualified in the areas of allied health, education and early learning services.
Our play based autism specific curriculum provides specialist support in:
We also provide holistic supports for families, which can include making connections into other AnglicareSA services.
For more information about school: https://www.sa.gov.au/topics/education-and-learning/schools/school-life/starting-primary-school
The Autism-specific curriculum incorporates the evidence-based SCERTS® Model, Guidelines for Good Practice (Prior and Roberts 2012) and Early Years Learning Framework (National Quality Framework for Early Childhood Education and Care).
The SCERTS® model is a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary approach to enhancing communication and social-emotional abilities of children with autism. SCERTS® stands for Social Communication, Emotional Regulation and Transactional Support and includes regular assessment, individualised education plan with goal setting and is implemented in a naturalistic environment (long day care)
The “Early Intervention for children with autism spectrum disorders: Guidelines for Good Practice” (Prior and Roberts 2012) focus on interventions for children under seven years old. The guidelines highlight key elements of effective interventions for children with autism including highly supportive teaching environments, generalisation strategies, predictability and routine, functional approach to challenging behaviours, support to transition to school, family involvement, visual supports and a multi-disciplinary approach
The Daphne Street ASELCC are regular participants in research projects which address a number of topics including working towards the best ways to support young children with autism achieve their goals.
The Daphne Street ASELCC are currently participating in the following projects:
The Daphne Street ASELCC has contributed to a wide range of research papers & conference presentations.