Mandurah Speech Pathology Clear Speech Pathology Clinic

18/12/2025

AND THATS A WRAP ON 2025 🎄🎄🎄|

It’s officially Christmas holidays time, and what an incredibly busy and rewarding year 2025 has been for Mandurah Speech Pathology!

As we head into 2026, MSP will look a little different.

✨ Bec, who originally started with us as an Allied Health Assistant while studying and has worked as a qualified Speech Pathologist with MSP for the past three years, is taking the exciting step of starting her own practice. I am so grateful for all of Bec’s hard work and dedication. She has been an absolute joy to work with and we’ve built a friendship that will continue well beyond MSP. Families have been so lucky to work with Bec and I’m incredibly excited to see where this next chapter takes her.

✨ Karen celebrates 10 years with MSP/CSPC this year. She continues her work up in Perth and remains an outstanding therapist whose experience and commitment make a huge difference for the families she supports.

✨ Nicole continues in her role as Practice Manager, keeping everything running smoothly behind the scenes (and we truly couldn’t do it without her).

✨ We are also excited to welcome Rachael in 2026 as an Allied Health Assistant. Rachael is a mum of three and brings valuable lived experience working with autistic children.

Thank you to all of our families for your trust and support throughout the year.
Wishing everyone a happy, safe Christmas and New Year, and we’re so looking forward to all that 2026 will bring 🎉✨

16/12/2025

SPEECH PATHOLOGIST OP SHOP HOLY GRAIL MOMENT|
I have been on the hunt for this game FOR YEARS!!! This is a game I read about on the SP pages, the one older SPs talk about with misty eyes and excitement.

Cariboo Island.

I have been op-shopping for YEARS hoping to stumble across it after hearing so many Speech Pathologists call it the holy grail of therapy games. I genuinely never thought I’d actually find one in the wild.
Well… guess what I found in the op shop today.
I did a full double take- Then stood there staring because I honestly didn’t believe it at first.
And yes- it’s complete. 🥹💛

This game is absolute magic for
✔️ language development
✔️ turn-taking & joint attention
✔️ following directions
✔️ categories, vocabulary & concepts
✔️ problem-solving

It’s cooperative, playful, motivating, and somehow manages to work for so many kids across ages and profiles (well that's what everone says... I have never seen it in the flesh before 😅) which is why it’s been legendary in SP circles for decades.

Safe to say this one is coming straight into the therapy room and will be loved HARD.
Sometimes the op shop gods really do deliver 🙌
If you know… you know 💙

18/11/2025

16/11/2025

On Saturday the MSP team attended the Peel Chamber of Commerce Business Awards, where we were honoured to be finalists in both the Small Business and Business Woman of Excellence categories.
While we didn’t take home an award this year, we had an absolutely wonderful evening celebrating together outside of work and connecting with so many inspiring business owners from across the Peel region.

A huge congratulations to Kelly Doohan from Iconic Wealth for winning the Small Business category, and to Monique from RippleAbility for taking out Business Woman of Excellence. RippleAbility is an incredible organisation providing vital support to families of children with complex disabilities and medical needs. I was lucky enough to be a very small part of their Respite Pilot program recently and the work they do in the disability space is next level ✨️ ✨️

We truly love being Speech Pathologists, it's such a rewarding profession, and we are grateful every day for the families and community we get to serve. Peel Chamber of Commerce & Industry Inc.

13/11/2025

This /sh/ sound has truly been a long-term labour of love! Mr X used to replace many of his sounds with a /g/ or /k/, for example, shoe (goo), shower (gower), four (gour), chair (gair).
He had significant motor speech difficulties and only a small range of consonants for a very long time.

He’s worked incredibly hard to reshape his sound production, and now his /sh/ is sounding fantastic! We had a little detour when it briefly turned into an /s/, but after focusing on tongue placement and careful listening, he’s really nailed it. Now, the next step is to keep practising and generalising that great /sh/ sound across all contexts!

22/10/2025

🧱 USING LEGO® IN SPEECH THERAPY: Building Skills Brick by Brick! 🗣️✨

I’m always on the lookout for fun, engaging, and effective resources and activities to support my clients work towards their therapy goals and one of my all-time favorites is… LEGO®!
These colorful little bricks aren’t just great for play! They’re incredibly versatile for targeting a range of speech therapy goals!

💡 Why LEGO® Works in Speech Therapy:
• Highly Motivating: Kids LOVE building! It keeps them engaged and makes therapy feel like play.
• Naturally Interactive: Encourages shared interactiongs, joint attention, and collaboration.
• Language-Rich Opportunities: Describing, requesting, sequencing, and problem-solving are built right into the process.
• Flexible for Any Goal: Whether targeting articulation (I often target /L/,/BR//G/) receptive/expressive language, or social interactions 😊
🧠 Ideas for Using LEGO® in Speech Therapy:
1. Following Directions:
Give multi-step verbal instructions like “Pick a red brick, then place it on the blue one.” Increase complexity as skills improve.
2. Descriptive Language & Adjectives:
“Can you find a tall, skinny, yellow piece?” Great for expanding vocabulary and sentence structure.
3. Requesting & Turn-Taking:
It can be great for for modeling sentence frames.
4. Sequencing & Storytelling:
Build scenes (a house, spaceship, zoo!) and have the child describe the steps or create a story about what happens there.
5. Articulation Practice:
6. Social Communication (Pragmatics):
In small groups children can work together to build something, helping with cooperative play, asking for help, or negotiating roles.

🧱❤️🗣️

18/10/2025

12/10/2025

ME 🙋‍♀️ Anytime the playdough comes out in the office 🤣

07/10/2025

FIND YOUR FRIENDS: A great game to play in many ways:
😊The "intended way"- flip a card over and the first to find the matching picture puts their marker down.

BUT it is also a great game that you can shape around more specific language activities such as:
🫠 Yes/no questions- are you holding a person? Is your person a girl? Does your card have a pink background etc
🥸 Taking a card and describing it to the other person, who then tries to find the correct match- “it's a girl, on a blue background, she has short black hair, is wearing gold earrings, she is smiling and you can see her teeth and she is holding a book.” This goal is shaped around descriptive language, the process of elimination, and the use of location concepts-top, middle, bottom, left, right, next to, under, below, above etc
🫡Pronouns- she/he, his/her, him/her etc

03/10/2025

💫💫💫We are super excited to announce that Mandurah Speech Pathology has been named a Finalist in the Alcoa Peel Business Awards in the Small Business category! 💙

Congratulations to all the incredible finalists across the different categories, it’s an honour for MSP to stand alongside such wonderful businesses from across the Peel region.

A heartfelt thank you to the Peel Chamber of Commerce & Industry Inc. and to all the event sponsors for bringing together such a vibrant showcase of local business-events like these are a wonderful opportunity to connect, celebrate, and collaborate.

Thank you for continuing to support local and for investing in the growth and strength of our Peel community and an extra thankyou to the wonderful families that we get to work with daily, for trusting us with your child's speech therapy journey.
🥰 I truly believe being a Speech Pathology is the BEST job in the world! Communication is everything and being able to share in a child's journey as they reach their communication goals is priceless.

01/10/2025

YAY FOR OPSHOPS| I get alot of resources for opshops- buying local, saving landfill and honeslty I just love a good bargain- especially something like this and the many many many ways I can use it in clinic (will just have to aim to NOT lose the keys 🤣)

29/09/2025

Surely it's not just my child who wears socks to the beach as she doesn't like the feel on sand on her feet and toes 🤷‍♀️