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Alison Marsh Speech Pathology

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Alison Marsh Speech Pathology

Offering assessment, intervention and support for children with reading and spelling difficulties.

13/06/2025

Thankyou 'A Current Affair' for bringing some attention to Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). DLD is a hidden disability impacting 1 out of 14 Australians. It has a significant impact on understanding and learning, with a large number of people also experiencing literacy difficulties.

For more information on DLD, please check out 'The DLD Project'
https://thedldproject.com/about-the-dld-project/

06/06/2025

Drum roll please….

Introducing our May, ‘Reader of the Month’!!

It’s a huge congratulations to Beau 🤗

What can I say about Beau? Beau’s personality is larger than life! He’s a natural born entertainer. He’s energetic, funny, loves to make you laugh and boy oh, boy does he pour his heart and soul into everything he does.

Beau and his mum, Stacey, make a wonderful team, and their hard work is paying off! I had the pleasure of meeting Beau and Stacey in January. Beau knew most of the letters of the alphabet and some of the speech sounds that these letters represent. He could write his name, but Stacey was really worried about his literacy, saying that he couldn’t read at all.

Fast forward almost 6 months and this kid is amazing us! He can now sound out and write simple words and the joy at watching him read a decodable book makes my heart sing!

Beau is a hearty Harry Potter fan, so when I asked him what he wanted to be when he grows up, not surprisingly, he wants to be a dragon. “I’ve been dreaming about it. I would help people and save them from bad guys!”.

I asked Beau what the best thing about learning to read is: “I like learning how to read, so I can get better (at reading). I feel happy when I can read a book, so I can learn. I love to learn all of my work.”

As for Stacey, you can see the pride on her face watching Beau read and comprehend what he’s reading. “It’s great to see his confidence grow”.

We’re super proud of you Beau! Keep on reading and keep on learning ❤️

14/05/2025

It’s time to introduce our April ‘Reader of the Month’!
A big congratulations to Aya!

Aya first came to see me almost 12 months ago. She was already clever at knowing the letters of the alphabet and the speech sounds they represent, but needed help to put it all together to read and spell words. She has worked incredibly hard with her mum, Brynelle, and is now devouring so many books that I am struggling to keep up with her!

Aya has the most wonderful imagination and just loves to write stories. Maybe we’ve got an author in the making!

I interviewed Aya, and here’s what she had to say…

Me: What would you like to be when you grow up?
Aya: I want to be a vet because I can see animals. I can see all the animals in the whole wide world… except for frogs.
Me: Do you think that being able to read will be important when you’re a vet?
Aya: Yes…so you can read the list of people and animals that have appointments. And see their medicines and when they have to stay in hospital.
Me: What’s the best thing about learning to read?
Aya: You get to see all the funny pages and learn all the words.

We can’t wait to see all of those funny pages and watch you learn to read and spell all of those words Aya! Your kindness, intelligence and love of learning would make you a wonderful vet if that’s what you decide to be… except for those slimy frogs! 🐸🤭❤️

04/04/2025

Incredibly it’s a brand new month, so time to announce our March ‘Reader of the Month’ ❤️

Introducing Enna-Beth (also known as EB, which is quite fitting as we head towards Easter)… I can’t show you her face because she is going to be famous (and a little camera shy at present).

This little lady is fierce… fiercely independent, fiercely stubborn, fiercely competitive and fiercely determined! All qualities that have resulted in her incredible progress in reading and spelling over the last few months. EB has gone from struggling to sound out simple words to reading multi-syllable words! Today as she entered, she flung the latest decodable book on the table with a ‘Well that’s far too easy!’ 🙌🏼 Nothing makes my heart sing more than watching this young lady grow in confidence and ability!

EB wants to be a beautician when she grows up… ‘I love doing nails, doing hair and doing massages’.
When asked what she likes the most about coming to sessions with me, she replied, ‘I get to learn how to read stuff. I struggled. It makes me feel happy when I can read’.

EB has an amazing support crew in her mum, Karleigh, and dad, Kurt. Appointments, home-practice, encouragement and pride…all in bucket loads. When asked his thoughts on EB’s progress, Kurt shared, ‘Enna-Beth is doing so well, and we are super proud. This year she has been crazy (when thinking about how much improvement she is showing), and she’s really enjoying the practice’.

We’re all incredibly proud of you EB! You’re an absolute super star ⭐

10/03/2025

Q & A: “WHAT ARE DECODABLE READERS?”

A decodable reader is a book that helps kids practice reading by using words that they can sound out. The stories are formulated with words contain the ‘code’ (sound-letter correspondences) that they have learnt or are learning, so kids can read them on their own and feel confident!

The top photo is from a decodable reader (from the PhonicBooks, Moon Dogs series)… you can see that there are no tricky words and a child would be able to say the sounds and read the word.

The bottom is from a non-decodable reader… if a beginning reader tried to sound out some of those words, they still wouldn’t know what it said (/l/ /a/ /u/ /g/ /h/ 🤯) and would be tempted to look at the picture to work it out! It relies on sentence ‘patterns’ for kids to ‘learn’ the text.

There’s no such thing as a ‘bad book’ (ok, that may be a bit of a stretch), but it’s vitally important that books are fit for purpose. Decodable books for beginning readers learning the alphabetic system and books for reading with or by an adult for fun and fostering the love of reading! Eventually almost all words become decodable… then we can read whatever we want ❣️🤗

28/02/2025

Friday Funny…

Today a 5 year old buddy and myself were completing a screener to check some important skills for literacy learning. We started with taking away a syllable. It went something like this…

Me: ‘If we say cupcake, but don’t say ‘cake’, what’s left?’

Mr5: ‘A muffin!’

😁🤗🫶🏻🧁

Whoever said ‘never work with animals nor small children’ lead a very boring existance ❣️

29/01/2025

A Specific Learning Disorder with Impairment in Reading (dyslexia) not only impacts on a person's ability to read and spell, but also their confidence and self-esteem. Dyslexia is a language-based reading disorder... not a vision problem nor a reflection of intelligence. People with dyslexia have difficulty learning to read and spell accurately and fluently. They have difficulty with the sound structure (phonology) of language and how sounds and letters work. Early detection and intervention is key!

27/01/2025

Whether it’s the first day of Prep, heading off to High School, or the very last first day of school for those commencing Year 12, hope you all have a wonderful day and that the 2025 school year is brimming with exciting opportunities, interesting things to learn and friendships! No doubt this year will fly on by too ❤️

15/01/2025

Please don't wait! If you as a parent, or the classroom teacher has concerns about your child's progress in literacy... letter-sound correspondence, sounding out words, recalling high-frequency words... please seek help 💕

13/01/2025

Happy 2025!

I don't know about you, but I feel like it's going to be a ripper!
Today is my first day back in the office and I'm looking forward to seeing all of those little (and big) faces again!

2024 saw a few changes in the services I provide, which meant saying goodbye to some little clients, but gave me the opportunity to open my books and welcome some new families 💕

In case you missed it, I am now honing my skills on supporting school-aged kids who are struggling with written communication... aka reading and spelling. I currently have a few spots available for assessment and/or intervention as we head into the school year 🙌 Get in touch if you have any queries!

08/10/2024

October is Dyslexia Awareness Month, and today is Dyslexia Day!

Please don't wait if your child is struggling learning to read and spell! We're here to help and Early Intervention is key!

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Bundaberg, QLD

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Monday	9:30am - 5:30pm
Tuesday	8:30am - 2:30pm
Wednesday	9am - 5:30pm
Thursday	8:30am - 5:30pm
Friday	8:30am - 5:30pm

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