Are you excited about an upcoming long car trip with little ones but worried about how to keep boredom away for your kids? No worries! There are plenty of awesome activities that don\’t involve screens and will make your journey super fun. Let\’s explore some suggested activities from our therapy team: Erasable Magnetic Drawing Boards: These […]
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Recently we celebrated Speech Pathology Week. Our team chose different ways to celebrate and demonstrate appreciation for the great work our Speech Language Pathologists (SLPs) do in helping people Communicate for Life. Here\’s a couple of examples of how we celebrated together: Speech Pathology Week Quiz created by Adam (one of our SLPs) A lunch
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The impacts of speech, language and communication difficulties in childhood are significant and potentially lasting. Speech therapy might not be able to prevent these impacts for all children but we can minimise them as much as possible by giving children the support and skills they need. The type and amount of impact for each child
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Did you know they can have fantastic benefits from both an Occupational Therapy (OT) and Speech-Language Pathology (SLP) perspective? Occupational Therapy (OT) Speech-Language Pathology (SLP) Some people may benefit from a fidget toy to help their motor skills and self-regulation. This may help with: Sensory processing e.g. touch or movement seeking Self-stimming behaviours Focus
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Group therapy benefits Group therapy sessions have many benefits and improve a person’s overall skills and development. In hindsight, none of us developed social communication skills, thinking skills, writing, skipping, hopping or self-care skills (e.g. brushing teeth, making lunch) on our own – we needed people around us to show us how they are done.
Communicating in ways other than speaking can seem a little scary and unfamiliar at first. However, if we look at our own interactions, we communicate in a lot of different ways every day. From waving hello to pointing to something we want (and even tagging our friends in memes), people naturally use a range of
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Our voices are the primary method with which many of us express ourselves to the world. However, often we don’t realise that in order to maintain the functioning of our voices, we need to look after our voices just as we look after the other parts of our body. The delicate network that makes up
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We\’ve all experienced the sensation of our drink going down the wrong way – the coughing, the watery eyes, the breathlessness. It\’s certainly unpleasant. Now imagine if this happened every time you took a sip of water. Not only is this sensation unpleasant, but you would be at a much greater risk of developing a
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Voice Disorders in Children Voice disorders are a group of medical conditions that involve a change in the pitch, loudness, or quality of someone\’s voice. A voice disorder can range from occasional hoarseness to the complete absence of the voice. While voice disorders are thought to affect between 3-9% of the adult population, it may
Speech Pathology and Cancer When you first mention speech pathology, you don\’t instantly think \’cancer\’ do you? Speech Pathologists work with a vast array of people, including those with cancer of the head and neck. Surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy of the head and neck can impact a person in many ways – including your swallowing,
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