Treehouse Training Collective

21/06/2026

We are so excited to introduce three brand-new resources from Treehouse Training Collective, designed to support autonomy and connection at home, in the classroom, and in the clinic!

What’s new?

Regulation Sets
Portable, wearable support for emotional regulation and co-regulation. These lanyard cards help individuals identify their needs, communicate physical boundaries, and request supportive sensory strategies (like deep breaths or space) when a situation feels overwhelming.

Teeth Brushing Boards
Designed to bring independence to daily hygiene routines. The step-by-step sequence board provides visual predictability, while the matching chat board lets users express choices, ask for help, or direct the routine.

Health Professional Visuals
The ultimate point-of-care toolkit for speech pathologists, occupational therapists, psychologists and many more professionals. Durable, cleanable, and clipped right to your lanyard so you can model core vocabulary, offer choices, and navigate clinical transitions smoothly without losing precious session time.

Why Professionals & Families Love Treehouse Tools:

Neuroaffirming Design: Focused on user autonomy, self-advocacy, and emotional safety rather than rigid compliance.

Heavy-Duty Durability: Waterproof, tear-resistant, and built to survive high-use classrooms, clinical spaces, and wet bathrooms.

Organisation Friendly: We gladly accept school purchase orders and provide tax invoices for clinical/funding budgets.

Head to the link below to upgrade your inclusion toolkit and support independent communication today!

🔗 www.treehousetraining.com/shop

20/06/2026

SNEAK PEEK: Something Exciting is Dropping Tomorrow!

​We’ve been working on some incredible new tools behind the scenes, and we just couldn't wait any longer to show you.
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​Can you guess what they are? Drop your best guesses in the comments below!
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​Image Descriptions (Alt Text)
​Image: A heavily blurred promotional image featuring the "Treehouse Training Co." logo at the top against a dark teal background. In the center, a fan of brightly colored, rectangular cards (pink, green, blue, yellow) is shown attached to a light mint-green lanyard strap. The top card is white with a dark circular logo emblem in the center.

​Image 2: A heavily blurred promotional image with a crisp white background and the "Treehouse Training Co." logo at the top. The image showcases two overlapping teal communication grids or choice boards, filled with small square icons and illustrations meant for visual learning or training.

​Image 3: A heavily blurred promotional image set against a solid light-blue background, topped with the white "Treehouse Training Co." logo. The center shows a thick deck of white rectangular cards on a binder ring, fanning out at the bottom to reveal a rainbow of thin, colorful card borders. The front card features a large, dark circular logo.

16/06/2026

💡The First Five Minutes Matter
Before a meeting begins.
Before a lesson starts.
Before an appointment, event, workshop, or activity gets underway.
People are already making sense of the experience around them.
How easy is it to find your way?
Do you know where to go?
What can you expect?
Do you feel welcome?
Do you have the information you need?
The first few minutes can shape how comfortable, confident, and ready someone feels to participate.
Often, inclusive practice is reflected in small details that are easy to overlook.
Clear directions.
Friendly greetings.
Predictable processes.
Thoughtful communication.
These moments help create environments where more people can access, participate, contribute, and belong.

Visual Description:
A point of view style reel showing someone arriving at a building, checking a directory, using a lift, entering a reception area, being greeted by staff, and being shown where to sit. Text throughout the video explores how the first few minutes of an experience influence access, participation and belonging.

14/06/2026

So many visual supports.
Countless future moments of communication, participation, understanding, and independence.
Seeing orders like this reminds us that more educators, therapists, support workers, and families are embedding visual supports into everyday environments.
Designed for real life.
Created for everyday use.
Made to support meaningful participation.

12/06/2026

We love seeing examples of inclusive practice happening in our community.
This fantastic video shows how thoughtful preparation can support children to feel more confident, informed, and included when accessing healthcare.
For many people, visiting a hospital can involve uncertainty, unfamiliar environments, new people, unexpected sounds, and experiences that can feel overwhelming.
Providing information ahead of time helps reduce some of that uncertainty by making the experience more predictable and easier to understand.
Resources like this, support children to build familiarity, know what to expect, and participate more comfortably in an environment that may otherwise feel intimidating.
Inclusive practice is not only about physical access. It is also about creating access to information, reducing unnecessary barriers, and recognising that people engage best when they feel safe, prepared, and supported.

What stood out to you when watching this video?
How might similar approaches be used in your own setting to reduce uncertainty and support participation?

Great job Launceston General Hospital

Visual description: Screenshot from a children's hospital orientation video featuring a bright, child friendly hospital environment designed to help children understand what to expect during a hospital visit.

Welcome to the Wombat Ward, our paediatric inpatient unit at the Launceston General Hospital, Tasmania. This video is made for children to help them feel saf...

11/06/2026

Often, when a child is reluctant to come into a room or finds it difficult to leave at the end of an appointment, we focus on motivation, behaviour or compliance.

But sometimes the challenge is much simpler.

The environment may not be providing enough information.

Many healthcare settings rely heavily on verbal instructions:

“Come with me.”
“We’re finished now.”
“Let’s head back to Mum.”
“Your room is over here.”

For some children, particularly when they’re nervous, overwhelmed, excited or processing lots of information, spoken language alone can be difficult to follow.

Visual supports can help make the routine visible.

A simple visual leaving strip can show exactly what will happen when the session finishes. A picture symbol on a door can help a child recognise where they are going and find their room independently.

These small adjustments increase predictability, reduce uncertainty and help children understand what is expected.

When children know where they’re going, what will happen and what comes next, getting into the room and leaving it often becomes much easier.

🔗Head to treehousetraining.com and download your free leaving visual strip now. Link in bio




Sometimes it’s not about changing the child.

It’s about making the environment easier to understand.

10/06/2026

🌈 This Pride Month, we’re encouraging organisations to look beyond the sticker.

The ACON's Welcome Here Project is a powerful initiative that helps LGBTQIA+ people identify services, businesses, and organisations that are committed to being safe, welcoming, and inclusive.

But displaying a Welcome Here sticker is more than a public statement.

It is a commitment.

A commitment to examining policies, practices, language, environments, and culture. A commitment to ensuring LGBTQIA+ people genuinely feel welcomed, respected, and safe when they engage with your organisation.

At Treehouse Training Collective, we believe visible allyship matters. But meaningful inclusion happens when that visibility is backed by action.

So this Pride Month, before putting the sticker on the door, ask yourself:

✨ Do our policies reflect inclusion?
✨ Do our staff have the knowledge and confidence to support LGBTQIA+ people respectfully?
✨ Do our systems and environments communicate belonging?
✨ Are we prepared to listen, learn, and continually improve?

The sticker is important. What sits behind it is even more important.

Let’s build organisations where inclusion is not just displayed it’s experienced.

10/06/2026

👀 Coming this week.
Something new is about to land at Treehouse.
We've been busy behind the scenes creating practical resources designed to support participation, communication, and inclusion across everyday environments.
The boxes have arrived.
The unboxing has begun.
The official launch is just around the corner.
Any guesses what is inside?
Drop your guesses below ⬇️

Visual Description: A cardboard box is opened to reveal glimpses of colourful Treehouse resources inside. Close up shots show small details of the contents without fully revealing the products. The video invites viewers to guess what is in the box.