Talkative Allied Health Services

Talkative Allied Health Services Talkative is a client-centred practice that has passionate and engaged therapists; dedicated to help

Thank you to our wonderful Talkative team and community. 2023 was another big year of seeing our clients succeed, thrive...
21/12/2023

Thank you to our wonderful Talkative team and community. 2023 was another big year of seeing our clients succeed, thrive and grow.

It’s with a heartfelt gratitude that I thank you all for your support, work, efforts and kindness again this year. Talkative’s community stood by us this year through the changes that were afoot and embraced us.

Our dear Talkative will be closing today. I’ve been very fortunate to have a terrific team of Speechies, Occupational Therapists, Receptionists and a Bookkeeper work with me over the last 9 years. I’d like to thank the Talkative team past and present for their work, values and dedication to their team and clients.

Talkative wouldn’t have been possible without our wonderful community of clients and families who have all warmed our hearts with the progress they’ve made, the many graduations from therapy and their dedication to their continued growth. We adore our community and want to thank everyone for choosing Talkative. It’s been an honour to work with you all and a joy to see you reach your goals. We are so grateful to all of you.

I’d also like to thank our amazing referrers. We have been proud to be in a community of like minded professionals who have worked closely with us and our clients too. Thank you for working with us, referring to us and thank you for also looking after the families that we’ve referred to you.

I started Talkative with a firm set of values and I’m pleased that I’m now closing Talkative with the same integrity that it started with. I have a heart full of gratitude and many happy memories.

To everyone who has been involved with Talkative past and present, thank you for making my dream to run a client centred practice a reality. It’s truly been an honour.

🎂 Happy Unbirthday to our wonderful Alex! 🎂 Our Senior Speechie Alex is turning 30 at the end of the month. 🫶We all ador...
12/12/2023

🎂 Happy Unbirthday to our wonderful Alex! 🎂

Our Senior Speechie Alex is turning 30 at the end of the month. 🫶

We all adore Alex and appreciate her warmth, integrity, kindness and genuine nature. Alex is not only an amazing Senior Speech Pathologist, but she’s a truly an amazing person. Thanks for being you and for all that you do, Alex! We appreciate you. 💙😊💙

Kat (Director/Senior Speech Pathologist) attended the Craniofacial Australia AGM last night. She was highly impressed wi...
29/11/2023

Kat (Director/Senior Speech Pathologist) attended the Craniofacial Australia AGM last night.

She was highly impressed with the quality research that Craniofacial Australia has supported and funded in this important area of practice.

What a terrific evening of research, quality discussions and an insightful overview of the year that has been for Craniofacial Australia and the Craniofacial community.

Kat feels that it is an honour to be affiliated with Craniofacial Australia and to work with their wonderful patients and team.

Many thanks to Professor David and the Craniofacial Australia team for hosting.

📢 Sound Mats 📢 This session focused on using a sound mat in many different ways to increase the number of trials on /cl/...
13/11/2023

📢 Sound Mats 📢

This session focused on using a sound mat in many different ways to increase the number of trials on /cl/ clusters!

This included:

✨ Placing magnets on top of the word to collect (as pictured).

✨ Using each /cl/ word in a phrase, such as ‘high cliff’.

✨ Creating silly sentences to combine /cl/ words. Such as ‘The clown climbed down the cliff’.

⭐️ What a Superstar! ⭐️ The Ultimate Yogi really does exist! Yoga has been one of Armani’s passions since working with o...
06/11/2023

⭐️ What a Superstar! ⭐️

The Ultimate Yogi really does exist!

Yoga has been one of Armani’s passions since working with our Yoga Guru, Sarah Barr. Armani has been stretching up a storm ever since with Alex (Senior Speech Pathologist).

We’ve all been so impressed that we felt it fitting for Armani to be officially appointed as The Ultimate Yogi of Talkative!

Congratulations on this well earned achievement! 🥳 🧘 🎉

✨ We love to see our clients bring their creativity out to play during therapy sessions! ✨Our lovely client is proudly d...
31/10/2023

✨ We love to see our clients bring their creativity out to play during therapy sessions! ✨

Our lovely client is proudly displaying her Jenga inspired zoo, featuring a very happy giraffe. What a terrific idea! 💡

Keep up the amazing work and keep sparkling brightly! 🎨✨👏

🐠 Felt boards 🦀An underwater theme made for a fun-filled session, targeting prepositions and following directions! Examp...
29/10/2023

🐠 Felt boards 🦀

An underwater theme made for a fun-filled session, targeting prepositions and following directions!

Examples of phrases included:

🐙 Place the Octopus at the bottom of the ocean

🪸Place the coral next to the shell

🐢 Place the turtle on top of the coral

🐚 Place the shell on the sand

⚠️ Felt boards have a wealth of uses including teaching vocabulary, colours, categories and strengthening oral language.

🌸 Speech Sound Wheel 🌼❓ Speech sound wheels provide a visual representation of combining a consonant such as /s/ wih a l...
23/10/2023

🌸 Speech Sound Wheel 🌼

❓ Speech sound wheels provide a visual representation of combining a consonant such as /s/ wih a long vowel such as /igh/. The center of the flower was used for the target consonant and the petals of the flower housed different vowel sounds. This activity is used as a stepping-stone towards producing whole words, such as 'site'.

Using our finger, we pointed to each consonant and vowel sound to create a syllable. For example:

🌹’soo’

🌷’see’

🌺 ‘say’

🥀 ‘sets’

👏🏻 What a creative and interactive way to increase the number of trials in a speech session!



✨ Minimal pairs ✨ 📢 To increase motivation, our minimal pair cards were created with playdough! 📌🗑️ The words ‘bin’ and ...
16/10/2023

✨ Minimal pairs ✨

📢 To increase motivation, our minimal pair cards were created with playdough!

📌🗑️ The words ‘bin’ and ‘pin’ were produced to receive a piece of playdough to add to the masterpiece! What a creation we made!

We are wishing our wonderful receptionist Lisa a very happy birthday! 🥳🎈🎂✨Lisa is a warm, welcoming and friendly team me...
28/09/2023

We are wishing our wonderful receptionist Lisa a very happy birthday! 🥳🎈🎂

✨Lisa is a warm, welcoming and friendly team member helping our talkative families with all things front of house! We are delighted to have her as part of our team! ✨


All things /f/ 👣🔥🧚🏻‍♀️🎡🥇🐠One of our master creators impressively constructed several target /f/ words out of Playdoh! Th...
26/09/2023

All things /f/ 👣🔥🧚🏻‍♀️🎡🥇🐠
One of our master creators impressively constructed several target /f/ words out of Playdoh!

The words included:

🪭 Fan

4️⃣ Four

🐟 Fish

🍴Fork

🦶🏻Foot

💡Handy hint: Playdoh was used as a reward in this activity. Each time the word was expressed, such as ‘Fan’, a piece of Playdoh was earned to add to the creation!

🪲 Playdoh Beetles 🪲Playdoh is an incredibly interactive and rewarding resource that we use often! This session targeted ...
24/09/2023

🪲 Playdoh Beetles 🪲
Playdoh is an incredibly interactive and rewarding resource that we use often!

This session targeted following directions, using ‘first’ and ‘then’. For example:

🐛 First put an eye on the head

🐜 Then add two pipe cleaners as legs

🦖 Dinosaur building 🦖 Finding their interests is paramount to motivate children in reaching their speech therapy goals. ...
01/09/2023

🦖 Dinosaur building 🦖

Finding their interests is paramount to motivate children in reaching their speech therapy goals.

Every child is different in what motivates them. Once you’ve found what motivates them, then they will develop a positivity attitude towards learning and as a result encourages participation.

In this session, for every /sh/ word said 5x, they were able to slowly build their dinosaur with playdough. Success! 🌻

✨ Building vocabulary using Playdough✨This fun-filled activity involved strengthening vocabulary, to build a playdough s...
29/08/2023

✨ Building vocabulary using Playdough✨

This fun-filled activity involved strengthening vocabulary, to build a playdough superstar!

Vocabulary included:

💬 Verbs: roll, squeeze, cut, push
💬 Adjectives: size, shape or colour
💬 Prepositions: in/out, next to

💡Many children benefit from learning new vocabulary based on a themes, providing them with multiple exposures of these words.


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226A Glen Osmond Road
Adelaide, SA
5063

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Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

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