Developmental Language Disorder Awareness Day: our free DLD guide for families
DLD is common. But it is not well understood. It’s hard to find evidence-based information that is easy to read. We’ve written a lot about…
Not about ‘fixing’: using the ‘F-Word Framework’ to support children with communication disorders and their families
The ‘medical model’ of communication disorders focuses on ‘fixing’ children through assessment, diagnosis, and ‘treatment’. But children with communication disorders aren’t ‘sick’ or ‘broken’. A…
Focusing speech therapy on functional outcomes: a refresher
Traditionally, many speech pathologists were trained to break their clients’ communication difficulties into parts in order to identify and treat communication ‘disorders’, e.g. speech sound…
What do you think about when you think about speech pathology?
Happy Speech Pathology Week everyone! This year, the theme is ‘Communicating with Confidence’. Here’s our take:
What is ‘pragmatic language’? The social use of language
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…