# Social Skills Connect

> Melbourne behaviour support practice led by Katherine Van Eede, providing positive behaviour support and DIR®/Floortime™-informed services for NDIS participants, families, schools and support teams.

Social Skills Connect serves Bayside Melbourne and Melbourne's south-east. The practice provides functional behaviour assessments, behaviour support plans, skill and capacity building, emotional regulation strategies, family and school collaboration, and NDIS goal support. Services welcome self-managed and plan-managed NDIS participants.

## Primary pages

- [Home and services](https://socialskillsconnect.com.au/): Practice overview, services, approach, NDIS information and contact details.
- [Blog](https://socialskillsconnect.com.au/blog): Behaviour support articles for participants, families and professionals.
- [Full AI-readable content](https://socialskillsconnect.com.au/llms-full.txt): Expanded practice information and complete article text.

## Articles

- [Consistency in Everyday Moments](https://socialskillsconnect.com.au/blog/consistency-in-everyday-moments.md): Progress depends on more than a well-written plan. It depends on whether everyday strategies are implemented consistently across the environments a child moves through.
- [A Behaviour Support Plan Is Not the Intervention](https://socialskillsconnect.com.au/blog/behaviour-support-plan-is-not-the-intervention.md): A behaviour support plan only creates change when the people implementing it understand the behaviour, the strategies, and the intended outcomes.
- [Tuning In Comes First](https://socialskillsconnect.com.au/blog/tuning-in-comes-first.md): Before learning, routines, or emotional regulation can take hold, a person first needs to feel calm, safe, and connected enough to tune in.
- [From Battle of Wills to Connection](https://socialskillsconnect.com.au/blog/connection-bridge.md): A practical reflection on using a D.I.R. Floortime approach to move from power struggles to connection during difficult transitions.

## Contact

- Katherine Van Eede, NDIS Registered Behaviour Support Practitioner
- Email: katherine@socialskillsconnect.com.au
- Phone: +61 402 413 847
- Service area: Bayside Melbourne and Melbourne's south-east, Victoria, Australia