CHIRP are a team of public health care workers who can guide children and whānau with worries about child development, challenging behaviours, and possible neurodiversity such as Autism and ADHD.
What is CHIRP?
CHIRP is an information gathering and advisory service for children with developmental, attention and/or behavioural concerns. We gather information to better understand the needs of each individual child so that we can link families / whānau with appropriate services for assessment and support.
What to expect
Your GP or school might refer your child to the CHIRP team if there are concerns about your child's development, challenging behaviours, and possible neurodiversity such as Autism and ADHD.
We’ll gather information and learn what we can about your child. If your child is at pre-school, school or kōhanga reo, we may also ask them to help as well.
We then bring together experts from our Child Development Services, Paediatrics Department, Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services and Education. Based on the information gathered we'll assess your child's needs and then recommend the best team(s) to support your child and whānau.