Fine motor skills: engaging summer activities for children
Blog | Explore three engaging, low‑cost summer activities—pom pom water play, watercolour creations, and sidewalk chalk art—to enhance your child’s fine motor skills through play.
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Why Reframe disability and autism: changing the story for families
Blog | Sylvana Mahmic at NSW Parliament launched Reframing Disability (aka Belongside families) and Reframing Autism, empowering families with hope, strengths-based approaches, and positive messages to support children with disabilities and developmental delays.
Fine motor skills: Fun Christmas activities for children
Blog | The festive season offers playful ways to support your child’s fine motor skills. Try threading stockings, making sensory bags, or crafting paperclip candy canes together
Sharing expertise with professionals in ECI
Blog | Plumtree professional training equips early childhood intervention organisations with family-centred approaches, evidence-based programs, and peer worker support to build capacity, resilience, and positive outcomes for children and families.
2019 Trevor Parmenter achievement award for Sylvana
Blog | Sylvana Mahmic, CEO of Plumtree, received the 2019 Trevor Parmenter Achievement Award for transforming family-centred education, empowering parents, and pioneering peer worker-led programs for children with disability.
Families empowering families through peer work and parent leadership
Blog | Plumtree’s Now & Next program supports families of children with disability or developmental delay. This award-winning, parent-led community empowers families, builds skills, and fosters peer networks globally.
