SA Speech Services

23/10/2025

Andddd that’s wrap for our term 3 school holidays social skills groups 🤩

We are so grateful for everyone that was a part of it and we can’t wait to see you all back here in the long school holidays for more fun!! 🌟

08/10/2025

Our term 3 school holiday socials skills groups for week 1 consisted of Roblox and Minecraft themed activities!

Amongst all of our activities, we created our own Minecraft characters, grew our own garden and we even painted our own pots 🪴

We hope everyone enjoyed their school holidays (we know we did!) and we can’t wait to see everyone in the next school holidays 🌼

21/08/2025

Big thanks to everyone who joined us for our School Holiday Science Social Groups!

The enthusiasm and energy made it a great experience for everyone and we loved learning and having fun together!

Can’t wait for the next one! 🧪🧫

20/08/2025

Say hello to fun speech practice with Animal Pop Sticks!

Each stick features a different sound, like SH, L, and more!

These help strengthen articulation skills and make learning new sounds a playful adventure! 🦁 🐸 🐷 🐭

13/08/2025

A huge THANK YOU to everyone who joined us for our first ever School Holiday Social Skills Cooking Class! 🎉🍔🍕🥞

Your participation, enthusiasm, and teamwork made this experience truly special!

From making pizzas to sharing pancakes and burgers, we all learned new skills together.

Our whole team can’t wait for the next one!👨🏽‍🍳👩🏽‍🍳
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06/08/2025

Turn playtime into speech therapy with a Bluey Pairs game! 🦴💙

Matching pairs isn’t just fun it’s a fantastic way to build vocabulary, enhance memory, and improve communication skills.

Perfect for helping kids with speech delays or disorders practice word recall, sentence structure, and turn-taking. All while hanging out with everyone’s favorite pup family! 🐾🎲
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19/06/2025

📚 Speechie Story Pick 🦁🐘

Looking for a book that boosts early language skills and keeps your little one engaged? This week’s pick is “Dear Zoo” by Rod Campbell – a firm favourite among speechies!

Here’s why we love it for speech & language development:
✅ Repetitive, predictable text – helps with word learning & participation
✅ Lift-the-flap fun – builds anticipation & turn-taking
✅ Animal names & sounds – great for expanding vocabulary
✅ Perfect for simple sentence structure like “I see a…” or “It’s too big!”

Pro tip: Pause before lifting each flap and wait to see if your child will name the animal or make a sound – every little interaction counts! 🗣️💬

Have you read this one at home? Let us know your child’s favourite animal below! ⬇️
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05/06/2025

Early intervention is key 🔑

Something we ALWAYS tell people is that it’s never too early to get assessed!

Contact South Australia Speech Services to find out how to book in and get started with Early Intervention! 🩵

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29/05/2025

Talking Tip Thursday 💬

The fewer words the better?! 🤨

Break down directions into smaller steps because children with language delays have trouble understanding long directions.

For example:
Instead of: “Ellie, could you please go up to your bedroom and get your pink shoes for Mommy?”

Say this: “Ellie, get shoes”

Instead of “Bobbie, can you find a place to sit at the dinner table? It’s time to eat”

Say this: “Bobbie, sit down”

It may sound harsh taking out all that fluff but trust me, if your child has a language delay, this will help tremendously!

Tips to make it less harsh:
💚Fun pitch/ tone of voice
💚Pointing enthusiastically at shoes etc
💚 Smiling when giving instructions

You can also break down multi-step directions by giving your child one step at a time.

For example, if you need your child to put on their shoes, get their backpack, and meet you by the door, you may want to start with just “put on shoes”. You may have to help your child with these directions at first until they understands.

Then, increase the challenge and start putting two very simple steps together, such as “First get shoes, then get backpack”.
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29/05/2025

27/05/2025

This week our speech pathologist Clara, has been loving using Pop the Pirate in some of her sessions! 🌟🏴‍☠️

Here is a list of ways Clara uses core words and Pop up Pirate in her therapy sessions;

- Turn taking

- Vocabulary expansion - for example “try again” “my turn” “your turn”

- ⁠Developing a child’s ability to explain instructions

- ⁠Reinforcer game
For example when she is targeting specific words, she encourages to keep trying, by allowing a sword every time the targeted word is said

- ⁠Concepts
For example: top, bottom, in, out, up

Try these techniques with some of your children’s toys at home! ✨

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22/05/2025

Here are some Shared Book Reading Strategies to help you at home:

👀 LOOK at the pictures of the book, follow your child’s point or eyes, and talk or label what is happening

👄 TALK about what you can see happening in the picture

🧠 THINK about the pictures or what might be there, encourage your child to do this (e.g., lift the flaps—“Oh! There’s something under the bush. I wonder what it is”)

🗣️ TELL a story or relate to the pictures. Talk about a time where they can relate (e.g., “I remember when we saw a sheep at the farm!”)

🙋🏽‍♀️ ASK a question about something they can see, know, or think about the book (e.g., “I wonder what it would sound like. Can you make a sheep sound?”)

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