Mansfield Autism Practitioner

A Mansfield Autism Practitioner joins in the lives and routines of families, providing a service that is compassionate, caring and proactive.

Family routines and continuity of care

Our Mansfield Autism Practitioners (MAPs) stay in the family home, which helps to observe critical times and provide individualised and relevant ideas and strategies that fit in with the family routine. We provide continuity of care, supporting young people and their families through times of transition and change.

Home based

We offer practical support in the family home. Our MAPs live (where possible) with the family for 3 – 5 days at a time, multiple times a year. We travel to all Victorian families.

Autism specific

Our MAPs incorporate a range of autism strategies into the daily program within the home, school and community. MAPs have professional expertise in autism and offer a wide range of individualised supports.

Personal qualities

Parents note the importance of a service that focuses on solutions and outcomes for their child. Parents often report feeling more optimistic and hopeful when receiving MAP services.

“My children and I look forward to our practitioner visits. We are always excited to see our practitioner and learn from her, we enjoy the family activities, new routines/suggestions when problem solving conflict and or behaviours. Our MAP helps create a family environment that is structured, caring, comfortable and that works for everybody. A positive experience for the entire family. Our MAP is culturally aware and sensitive to all our cultural beliefs and practices, I feel 100% happy and comfortable with having our MAP in our home.

Thank you Mansfield.”

“Having a MAP practitioner who comes to our house and sees and hears our struggles that our regular therapists don’t get to see is really helpful. We don’t have to constantly explain what is happening. We have never had a support service provider help our entire family. Having our MAP come stay to see the true reality of living with autism has been beneficial to everyone.”

“I would be completely lost without this service and I truly believe my child would not have developed and improved in daily life skills and positive behavioural changes without my MAPS’s expertise, understanding and guidance.”

“I wish this service would be available to more families and funded to support more families”

How to access MAP in-home service

Families require funding under the NDIS Capacity Building: Improved Relationships or Capacity Building: Improved Daily Living Skills categories. We may require funding to conduct a functional behaviour assessment and intervention plan.

MAP brochure

Mansfield Autism Practitioner service is currently at full capacity

Our MAP service is in higher demand than ever before and we have reached maximum capacity.
With hundreds of families already on our expression of interest list we have no choice but to close to new enquiries.

Please keep checking back to see when we start to accept expressions of interest for our MAP service again.

Mansfield Autism Statewide Services is a registered NDIS provider of Improved Relationships, Improved Daily Living and core Short Term Accommodation. MASS is registered with the Quality and Safeguards Commission to deliver Specialist Behaviour Intervention Support and is an implementing provider of these supports to NDIS participants.

You can view the current NDIS Pricing Arrangements and Price Limits here.

Mansfield Autism are committed to promoting and protecting at all times the best interests of children and young people involved in its programs. Any child having contact with Mansfield Autism has the right to feel safe and be safe. The wellbeing of children in our care will always be our first priority and we have zero tolerance to child abuse.