TUTORING SERVICES

At Developmental Tutoring, we provide specialised one-on-one tutoring and developmental learning support for pre-primary and primary-aged children — especially those who learn differently, including neurodivergent learners.

We tailor every session to the individual child: how they learn, how they regulate, and how they engage, not just what content they need to cover. This means we support children through confidence-building, regulation strategies, task breakdowns, and step-by-step learning that works for their brain and behaviour.

Sessions are conducted at our office, your child’s school, or their day-care centre, in environments designed to maximise focus, engagement, and success.

Who We Support

Our tutoring is designed for children who learn differently, including neurodivergent learners. These children may experience challenges such as:

  • Difficulty concentrating or maintaining focus

  • Becoming easily distracted or distracting others

  • Avoiding tasks or schoolwork that feel overwhelming

  • Trying hard but not seeing expected results

  • Struggling to retain information or follow multi-step directions

  • Finding numbers, reading, writing, or spelling challenging

  • Fatiguing quickly or showing low stamina

  • Difficulties with listening, participation, or confidence

Our approach supports children in overcoming these challenges while building skills, independence, and self-belief.

Areas We Support

Our tutoring supports children across a wide range of learning and developmental areas, including:

  • Reading Skills – from phonics and decoding foundations to fluent, confident reading

  • Reading Comprehension – understanding and applying meaning from text

  • Writing Skills – from letter formation to sentence building and structured storytelling

  • Numeracy – building confidence and understanding in practical maths skills

  • Fine, Gross, & Oral Motor Skills – developing coordination, strength, and control

  • Play & Social Skills – turn-taking, collaboration, and engagement

  • Daily Living & Independence – routines, self-help, and organisational skills

  • Behaviour & Communication – supporting appropriate behaviours, reducing repetition, improving non-compliance, and enhancing communication skills

Initial Session

The initial session focuses on observing your child’s current skills through informal skill checks and guided learning activities. This helps identify strengths and any gaps in foundational skills so support can be tailored appropriately. Learning then focuses on repetition and practice to build accuracy, confidence and fluency over time.

Our Approach

At Developmental Tutoring, we use evidence-based methods and materials shown by research to accelerate learning and support children’s development — academically, socially, and behaviourally. Our approach benefits all children, not just those with a formal diagnosis.

Some of the teaching methods we use include:

  • Pivotal Response Teaching

  • Natural Environment Teaching

  • Incidental Teaching

  • Verbal Behavioural Teaching

  • Discrete Trial Training

  • Fluency-Based Instruction

  • Direct Instruction

Every program is personalised, data-driven, and carefully recorded. We regularly assess your child’s progress to ensure they are developing skills, confidence, and independence every step of the way.

Our goal is to support each child in reaching their potential through structured, step-by-step learning that works for how they learn best.