Welcome to Fremantle Language Development Centre

Fremantle Language Development Centre (LDC) is an Independent Public School that provides high quality specialist education for Kindergarten to Year 3 students with a significant primary language disorder or diagnosis of Developmental Language Disorder (DLD).

We consist of a school and a state-wide Outreach service and provide targeted, intensive language and academic intervention in a supportive environment that focuses on the social, emotional and academic growth of students.

Our Fremantle LDC school is located across three sites where facilities are shared with local primary schools, enabling children from the LDC to benefit from interaction and inclusion with mainstream students.

Language Development Centres do not have local intake areas. Students are likely to be placed at a campus nearest to their residential address.

Our main campus is our Willagee site, co-located with Caralee Community School

Other campus locations:

  • Bull Creek site, co-located with Bull Creek Primary School
    • 32 Hardy Street, BULL CREEK WA 6149
  • Beeliar site, co-located with Beeliar Primary School
    • 86 The Grange, BEELIAR WA 6164

The aim is to return children to mainstream education when they demonstrate age-appropriate speech, language, social skills and the ability to participate academically.

Our Outreach Service supports mainstream primary school teachers in the South Metropolitan Region, Pilbara and West Kimberley regions with students who have speech and language delays or difficulties and:
* are enrolled in K – Year 2 and do not attend an LDC/LDS, or
* previously attended an LDC and have exited into a mainstream setting (PP-Year 4)

All our school and Outreach staff are highly skilled and engage in high quality professional learning to ensure that current research and data drives our evidence-based practices in language intervention.

 

 

The artwork was created by artist Krista Davies for our school. The painting represents Fremantle Language Development Centre and the land on which the school is built and its connection to the Willagee, Beeliar and Bull Creek sites. The large meeting circles represent each site and are reflective of each school site colours and the Outreach Service. The smaller meeting circles depict the children and adults, who benefit greatly from the service and the connections we all have to each other. In the background there is an emu, magpie, turtle, gumtrees and waterholes. They are the elements that show the connections each site has to the land. In the centre is the Fremantle Language Centre logo with the Noongar words for Talk, Learn, Grow – Waanghan Kaadatj Malatij. This land always was and always will be a place of learning on Whadjuk Noongar country.