Completing 20 minutes of home practice will make the world of difference for you and/or your child.
The Importance of Home Practice
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My Mealtime is Not Enjoyable Any More: Moments with Dysphagia
“I don’t feel like eating as much as I loved to.” “It always gets stuck in my throat; I’m scared to eat.” “I don’t want to eat out with friends anymore, it’s embarrassing.” Just like breathing, swallowing is something most of us...
Online Speech Therapy: Our Top Tips for Using Zoom
Our Speech Pathologists are currently seeing clients online! While we seem to have found ourselves at a unique time in the world where the fantastic goals of improving systems and moving online has suddenly become a fact of necessity, there are many rapid changes...
Helping Your Child Get ‘In-sync’ with inTime
Rhythm is with us all the time, but our sense of rhythm does not always work actively and effectively. Sometimes we need to teach our body to find its rhythm. When we can’t find our rhythm, our body is not connected optimally to our brain which, in turn, affects how...
Setting Clear, Meaningful and Positive Boundaries
It’s trendy to live with a belief in ‘no boundaries’ but in fact, just as we need to understand ‘fall off your bike’ before we can understand ‘don’t fall off your bike’ (the previous post, The Power of 'Don't', explains this concept), we need to understand...
The Power of ‘Don’t’
Have you ever noticed that as soon as you tell your child not to do something, that is exactly what they then do. You say: “Don’t fall in” and the next thing you hear is ‘splash!!’' You say: “Don’t drop it” and the next thing you hear is ‘smash!!’ You say: “Don’t...
The Keys to Supporting Great Communication Development Series: 5 years
If you are only just tuning into our Communication Development series, welcome! Today we post our fifth and final instalment after following the normal development of Receptive Language, Expressive Language and Social Skills in a child from birth through to 5 years....
The Keys to Supporting Great Communication Development Series: 4 Years
He is the busiest kid in the world - or so it seems. His movements are constant, and even in a quiet moment you sense his little brain working over-time. In his own way, he shows you a hunger for learning. The current of questions and make believe is as strong as...
The Keys to Supporting Great Communication Development Series: 3 Years
Your little one is becoming quite a person. There aren't many people who can make you laugh like your 3-year-old. The constant chatter hints to an ever-busy brain running a million miles an hour, finding you up to your ears in the trail of stories, ideas and...
The Keys to Supporting Great Communication Development Series: 2 years
There seems to be quite a storm that occurs inside the heads of our young ones when it comes to the early stages of communicating. There is a disconnect between knowing what they mean to say and their ability to not only express it, but to do so in a way that others...