Atypical Solutions was never created to be “just another disability service.”

It was built from lived experience, frustration with broken systems, and a belief that people deserve more than transactional care.

Founded in 2019, Atypical began with a vision to create something the disability sector was missing — genuine human connection, meaningful community, and supports that see the person before the diagnosis.

Behind Atypical is our director with over 16 years of industry experience across all levels of the disability sector, from frontline support work through to leadership, operations management, specialist support coordination, intake, compliance and complex care. That experience, combined with lived experience as a parent of children with disability, exposed the realities faced by so many individuals and families navigating the system every day.

Too often, people were reduced to numbers.

Participants were seen as funding packages.
Staff were overworked and unsupported.
Complex behaviours were managed instead of understood.
Communication barriers were overlooked.
And some of the most vulnerable people in our community were left feeling unheard, isolated and disconnected.

Atypical was built to challenge that.

At the heart of Atypical is a deep belief that communication is a basic human right and that every person deserves to feel understood, valued and genuinely included.

With strong ties to the Deaf community spanning generations — including Deaf grandparents, aunties and uncles, and lived experience raising a hard of hearing child — inclusive communication has always been woven into the foundation of the organisation. Auslan is not treated as an “add on” at Atypical; it is part of the culture.

The entire Atypical team is trained to a minimum Level 2 Community Auslan standard because connection begins with communication.

This philosophy also shaped Atypical’s approach to supporting people with complex behaviours and communication needs. With extensive experience supporting participants with high and complex needs, Atypical strongly believes that all behaviour is a form of communication.

Behind every behaviour is a person trying to express a need, emotion, fear, frustration or desire to connect.

People do not need to be “fixed.”
They need to be understood.

That understanding became the driving force behind creating environments where people feel emotionally safe enough to grow, regulate, connect and belong.

As the vision expanded, so did the community around it.

What began as sole trader support work supporting people with complex needs quickly evolved into something much bigger — a collaborative, values-driven community shaped not only by professionals, but by participants, families and lived experience itself.

The expansion into farm-based supports was born from a lifelong connection to animals, nature and hands-on learning. Atypical recognised the incredible impact animals and real-world experiences can have on emotional regulation, confidence, communication, independence and skill development — particularly for people who learn and experience the world differently.

Because not everybody thrives sitting inside four walls.

Some people need movement.
Some people need space.
Some people need connection before learning can happen.

Atypical was created to be that space.

A place where people can show up exactly as they are.
A place where individuality is celebrated.
A place where support adapts to the person — not the other way around.

In 2024, Atypical Solutions expanded from the Mornington Peninsula into Cranbourne South, where the community continues to grow with passion, pride and purpose.

Today, Atypical provides farm-based programs, in-home supports, community access, support coordination and counselling — but at its core, it remains grounded in the same mission it began with:

Creating connection, encouraging contribution, and building genuine community.

Because this is what support should look like.

No boxes to fit into.
No labels defining worth.
No transactional care.

Just safety.
Connection.
Contribution.
Purpose.
Belonging.
And community.