Dr. Rosalyn Tamming:

What does "working" mean? It was not 100% clear what it was supposed to achieve. From the visits, we already see what parents expect it to achieve. They thought there were therapists coming in and wondered when their children would get the one-on-one therapy? The model is based on educational outcomes for the child, through a system that is school and teacher led. The therapists are primarily at that universal level, supporting the school to support the children.

There are three tiers within the system that was set up. There is the universal, targeted and individual. None, or a very small number, of the schools we spoke to was doing any individual, one-on-one child therapy. It is important to remember the CDNT is set up on a family-centred approach where the family is involved in the child's support. Going into a school and doing a one-on-one session with a child with no parent present can be counterproductive because there is no-----