Typically responds within
A couple of days
Vacancies
Limited availability
The Champion Centre provides multi-disciplinary early intervention services to infants and young children with significant disabilities and their families in Canterbury. The programme is offered in a centre-based model of service, in partnership with parents, and in accordance with international best practice.
The Champion Centre offers services for children who have special needs or children whose developmental progress is at risk. Children who attend the centre have a wide range of special needs. These include Down syndrome, other genetic disorders, cerebral palsy, extreme prematurity, epilepsy, developmental dyspraxia, Autism Spectrum Disorder and brain injury.
We offer a number of services at the Centre including:
- An early intervention programme for children from birth to primary school age who have delays in at least two or more areas of development;
- A specialist early intervention programme for children with relating and communicating difficulties;
- A monitoring programme for children who are at developmental risk either because of prematurity or because of some other health-related vulnerability;
- Individual assessment for children for whom there are questions about their development.
Child referral process:
Children are referred to the service via a paediatrician who makes a referral to the Early Intervention Coordination Service. This service represents all the early intervention providers in the area and allows offers to be made to families from more than one provider, dependent on capacity in those providers.
