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Quirky Kid’s early therapeutic resources gained another layer of professional credibility when feedback gathered through the Australian Council for Educational Research highlighted their practical use with children and adolescents.
The feedback followed Quirky Kid’s distribution relationship with ACER and involved people using psychology and wellbeing resources across professional and family settings.
Rather than treating the feedback as a product testimonial campaign, its value was that Quirky Kid’s resources were being considered by people outside the organisation and within a broader professional distribution environment.
Resources developed in practice, reviewed beyond it
The resources included visual and conversation-based tools originally developed from recurring themes in Quirky Kid’s psychology work with children and families.
They were designed to help adults and children discuss emotions, behaviour, relationships and experiences in ways that did not rely only on direct verbal questioning.
Professional distribution through ACER
The relationship with ACER helped move Quirky Kid’s therapeutic publishing beyond its own clinics and into a national professional market.
An ACER clinical resources catalogue independently lists Quirky Kid resources including Face It, Just Like When and Tell Me a Story, describing their use across clinics, classrooms and homes.
The catalogue records practical details of the resources and their intended use, providing a durable external record of Quirky Kid’s place within ACER’s professional psychology and educational resource range.
Why the feedback mattered
For a small psychology publisher, professional uptake and external feedback were important steps between developing a resource internally and establishing confidence that it could be useful in wider settings.
The feedback story sits alongside the broader Quirky Kid and ACER distribution partnership, but records a different part of that relationship: the response of professionals and users to the resources themselves.
It also predates many of Quirky Kid’s later publishing awards and formal program evaluations, making it a useful early marker of external professional engagement with the organisation’s therapeutic publishing work.
