N8 Speech Pathology

17/12/2025

Thank you for your support throughout the year. n8 Speech Pathology is now on leave for Christmas and will be back in the clinic again from Wednesday 14th January.
I hope you all have a very special Christmas and safe New Year!

10/12/2025

An activity idea leading up to Christmas – make homemade wrapping paper!
Make it for teachers, family members or presents for friends.

You can adapt this for children of any age by offering stamps Vs paint and leaving to their imaginations.

I was gathering supplies to give to Henry's teachers for Christmas. They have asked parents for gifts for their classrooms instead of gifts for them

03/12/2025

Sometimes finding the right words for talking to children can be really, really challenging. When choosing how to respond to texta on the wall, or the unending ‘why?’ battle, or simply trying to keep healthy open communication with the child who doesn’t want to talk, the words don’t always come so easily.

Each month this year a phrase will be shared that may help in such moments.

“Thank you ….’
Just like we like to to know our hard work is appreciated every day, our children want to know that their effort is noticed as well. For example, “Thank you for helping your sister.” “Thank you for doing your jobs. I know you wanted to do other things first.” “Thank you I really appreciate you doing that even though it was hard.”

26/11/2025

Have you ever thought about how your lips, teeth, tongue and palate are used to make all the consonant sounds in English?
This picture helps us to see where each sound is made. Talking is hard work!

19/11/2025

Make a fun advent calendar for Christmas.
At the same time you are practicing sequencing, concept of time, numbers and more!

12/11/2025

Sometimes finding the right words for talking to children can be really, really challenging. When choosing how to respond to texta on the wall, or the unending ‘why?’ battle, or simply trying to keep healthy open communication with the child who doesn’t want to talk, the words don’t always come so easily.

Each month this year a phrase will be shared that may help in such moments.

“I’m sorry ….’
Children aren’t always the ones making mistakes. When we apologise we model how to make appropriate apologies, but also teach children that we all make mistakes.

05/11/2025

Wacky Word of the Month!

This month the wacky word is:

“Sesquipedalian” ……. tendency to use very long words.

Can you do the challenge and use this over the next few days?

29/10/2025

Can you solve them? Share your ideas in the comments.

22/10/2025

Sometimes finding the right words for talking to children can be really, really challenging. When choosing how to respond to texta on the wall, or the unending ‘why?’ battle, or simply trying to keep healthy open communication with the child who doesn’t want to talk, the words don’t always come so easily.

Each month this year a phrase will be shared that may help in such moments.

“Help me understand ….’
Inviting a child to help you understand communicates that you don’t understand, but you WANT to. For example, “Help me understand how this got here.” “Help me understand what happened.”

15/10/2025

Children generally find it easy to talk about the here and now. However, having conversations about the future helps them to use more abstract and sophisticated language as well as to increase their awareness of differences in time.
One way to talk about the future is to make a prediction.

08/10/2025

Wacky Word of the Month!

This month the wacky word is:

“Derecho” ……. a violent storm in where winds move along a straight-line course.

Can you do the challenge and use this over the next few days?

01/10/2025

One more school holiday activity …… Make your own rainbow, right in the freezer!

It's a great simple science experiment that's fun for any age!