Welcome to Woodbury!
A school started by Parents – for Children with Autism
Woodbury didn’t begin in a boardroom. It began with parents.
Two Decades ago, a small group of families — parents who had already rolled up their sleeves and brought ABA therapy into their own homes for their children with autism — looked around and saw a gap.
There was no school. No place where the science they had witnessed transforming their children’s lives could be delivered in an educational setting, by a team trained to do it properly. So, they built one.
In 2006, Woodbury opened its doors as the first school of its kind in Australia — and it remains the only one of its kind in New South Wales today.
That founding spirit — fiercely committed, deeply personal, and entirely focused on what each child needs to flourish — still lives in everything we do
Woodbury School
Woodbury is a school built for children with Autism, and is unlike any other in this country. We are not another special school. We are not a one-size-fits-all program.
We are a place built from the ground up around one question: what does an autistic child specifically, need in order to grow, achieve their full potential, live independently.
Our answer is grounded in Applied Behaviour Analysis — not the ABA of decades past, but today’s ABA. Ethical, individualised, naturalistic, and human. A science that has spent more than 60 years refining itself, and that remains the most extensively researched approach to autism education in the world.
Every child who comes to Woodbury receives a program that is genuinely their own. Not a template. Not a curriculum adapted around them — but a living, evolving plan built entirely for them, reviewed continuously as they grow, and designed to help them move toward independence in every area of their life.