Sydney speech pathologists helping adults and children speak for themselves.
Happy Speech Pathology Week everyone!
This year, the theme is ‘Communicating with Confidence’. Here’s our take:
Principal Speech Pathologist, Banter Speech & Language
Our talented team of certified practising speech pathologists provide unhurried, personalised and evidence-based speech pathology care to children and adults in the Inner West of Sydney and beyond, both in our clinic and via telehealth.
Over the next 14 weeks, David will be lecturing final year speech pathology students at the University of Technology Sydney. While he does that, our team will be making a series of jargon-lite, evidence-based infographics for families about pragmatic language.
We start this week with the very basics:
What is ‘pragmatic language’? The social use of language.
Principal Speech Pathologist, Banter Speech & Language
Our talented team of certified practising speech pathologists provide unhurried, personalised and evidence-based speech pathology care to children and adults in the Inner West of Sydney and beyond, both in our clinic and via telehealth.
“When will my late talker start to talk?”
Our most frequently asked question from concerned parents.
Over the years, we’ve posted lots of evidence-based information about this important topic on our website. See our related articles at the end of this post.
But we made this infographic for families to highlight some of the key points.
To read more, check out the full article here.
Related articles:
Principal Speech Pathologist, Banter Speech & Language
Our talented team of certified practising speech pathologists provide unhurried, personalised and evidence-based speech pathology care to children and adults in the Inner West of Sydney and beyond, both in our clinic and via telehealth.
If you’re a parent with a preschooler, we know times are tough. So many of us are stuck at home, unable to take our kids out and about as usual for social activities and on adventures.
The year is more than half over, and we’ve had lots of calls and messages from parents worried about the effects of prolonged lockdown and social restrictions on their child’s language development and school readiness.
For many, this may not be the best financial time, and, if money is tight, we have lots of free tips for you to help stimulate your child’s language development – just type in ‘preschooler’ in our ‘search this website’ box. Free resources will pop straight up, including shared reading tips, information about pre-literacy skills, audio book lists, and general tips, techniques, strategies, and activities to stimulate your child’s language development in natural play activities at home.
To make things easier for families, we have decided to slash the cost of our School Readiness Language Workshop course. We think you’ll be impressed by the value you get.
For a limited time – just 7 days – we’re doubling the value of the course by halving the price! We want to show you just how much we believe in the value of school readiness language exercises by making the workshop as accessible to as many children as possible.
Here is what is included in the course:
Whatever you decide, remember we are here to support you. Just as we’ve done for the last seven years, we will keep posting free, evidence-based information and suggestions for preschoolers – including those getting ready for ‘big school’ in 2021.
Interested in signing up?
Click the button below and use the coupon code DOUBLEVALUE2020.
Stay safe everyone!
(We strive to be fair. For all current workshop participants, we’re applying the discount for you too, starting from your next payment.)
Principal Speech Pathologist, Banter Speech & Language
Our talented team of certified practising speech pathologists provide unhurried, personalised and evidence-based speech pathology care to children and adults in the Inner West of Sydney and beyond, both in our clinic and via telehealth.
During these unusual school holidays, I’ve been reflecting on how there is so much nonsense out there about how to parent well. So much doom and gloom. So much evidence-free noise. So much information. So much stress!
When I’m reading books, feature articles, news, and blogs to improve my parenting, I use a simple framework to help me sift information and to make it useful for our family.
I call it my SKIP filter:
I thought I’d share an example of how I used the SKIP method this week to find and share the good stuff with my family:
How to:
We think all kids should know about:
Could COVID-19 – bizarrely – usher in an era of more inclusive workplaces (and by logic, learning places)? Matthew Keegan makes the case: ‘Why coronavirus may make the world more accessible‘.
I’ve done this thing for years, but never had a name for it. Daphne K. Lee explains the wonderfully-named, yet painfully applicable concept of ‘Revenge bedtime procrastination‘.
From time-to-time – no more than once a month – we plan to share some of our SKIP findings with interested readers and followers who have (or work with) school-aged kids.
If you would like to get on our SKIP list, subscribe below.
Principal Speech Pathologist, Banter Speech & Language
Our talented team of certified practising speech pathologists provide unhurried, personalised and evidence-based speech pathology care to children and adults in the Inner West of Sydney and beyond, both in our clinic and via telehealth.
We’re pleased to present our High Frequency Prefixes for Reading and Writing Course: https://bit.ly/NinePrefixes.
Fully-scripted modules for the nine most frequently used prefixes in English: Un-, Re-, Pre-, Dis-, De-, Fore-, A-, Mis-, and In-.
Each module includes 10 activities to teach and consolidate knowledge. Suitable for one-to-one, small group and whole class instruction.
Download in PDF and in Google Slides formats.
Check out our video for more information:
Principal Speech Pathologist, Banter Speech & Language
Our talented team of certified practising speech pathologists provide unhurried, personalised and evidence-based speech pathology care to children and adults in the Inner West of Sydney and beyond, both in our clinic and via telehealth.