Perth Speech Therapy

14/11/2025

Doug and I at the Asian Pacific Autism Ball. Such a great night.

14/11/2025

Liz cannot help herself. She’ll do anything to be on Facebook!
Liz and Jen attending the Asian Pacific Autism Conference 2025 at the Crown.

14/11/2025

Just realised where we left Liz. She is still in the escape room!

14/11/2025

Where’ s Wally oops I mean Where’s Liz 😂

14/11/2025

Here are some tips for making homework a bit easier.
If your child is struggling academically phone Perth Speech Therapy on 0412256656.
Location: unit 1 595 Canning Hwy Alfred Cove
Www.perthspeechtherapy.com.au

12/11/2025

Surprising Sarah. Perth speech therapy went out for dinner and escape room and at the same time celebrated our amazing Sarah. Thanks guys for your friendship, support and hard work. Couldn’t ask for better.

11/11/2025

Perth Speech Therapy runs PLAYGROUP every Tuesday from 10-11am.
Goal is to work with the parents in how to stimulate language in their young child. Location: Melville
M: 0412256656.

07/11/2025

Is Your Child in Kindergarten?
Do they have strong PA skills?

Rhyming Games for Preschoolers

Rhyming is one of the very first signs that a child is tuning into the sounds of language — and it can be so much fun! 🎶

You can try simple rhyming games at home, like:

✨ Rhyme Time Hunt
Find objects around the house that rhyme —
cat–hat, sock–clock, spoon–moon.

✨ Finish the Rhyme
“Twinkle twinkle little… ⭐”
Let your child fill in the final rhyming word.

✨ Silly Rhymes
Make up nonsense rhymes! Kids love this:
“tree-bee-mee-plee!”

Rhyming strengthens early sound awareness, which supports reading and spelling success later on.

If your child finds rhyming tricky, that’s okay — you’re definitely not alone. Early, gentle support can make learning feel enjoyable and achievable. 💛

📍 Perth
www.perthspeechtherapy.com.au
Location: Unit 1 595 Canning Hwy ALfred Cove
CALL: 0412 256 656

Helping children build the confidence to communicate through speech therapy. Our Perth speech pathologists can help. Call 0412 256 656.

07/11/2025

Is yOur Child in Kindergarten?
Do they have strong PA skills?
Blending & Segmenting at Home !

Supporting early reading at home does not need to look like worksheets or long homework sessions.
In fact, little playful moments are the most powerful. 🌱

Two key reading skills you can practise easily at home are:
Blending (putting sounds together)
and
Segmenting (pulling sounds apart).

Try these:
🗣 Robot Talk — Say sounds in a funny robot voice:
“/m/ /a/ /p/… what’s the word?” (map!)

🐻 Sound-Stretch Reading — Slowly stretch out sounds as you read short words together.

🎈 Bubble Words — Pop a bubble for each sound in a word:
“sun” → pop /s/ pop /u/ pop /n/

Keep it short, gentle, and fun — 5 minutes is perfect.
No pressure. No stress. Just connection + learning. 💛

If you’d like support, guidance or a clear starting point, we’re here to help.
info@perthspeechtherapy.com.au
location: unit 1 595 Canning Hwy Alfred Cove.
CALL: 0412256656

07/11/2025

Is your child in Kindergarten?
Then they should by Term 4 have a strong foundation in Phonological Awareness skills!

What is Phonemic Awareness?

Did you know that strong reading skills start before children learn letters?
One of the most important early literacy skills is called phonemic awareness — the ability to hear and work with the smallest sounds in words.

For example, in the word cat, a child can learn to hear:
/c/ – /a/ – /t/
This skill helps children sound out words when reading and spell with confidence.

At Perth Speech Therapy, we help children develop phonemic awareness through fun, gentle and structured activities like:

Sound play and listening games

Blending and segmenting sounds

“Robot talk” play

Movement + multi-sensory sound activities

When children build these skills early, reading becomes clearer, calmer, and far less frustrating.

If your child is finding early reading tricky, we’re here to help. 💛
Message us anytime — we love talking through next steps.

📍 Perth
www.perthspeechtherapy.com.au
Location: Unit 1 595 Canning Hwy Alfred Cove
M: 0412256656

Helping children build the confidence to communicate through speech therapy. Our Perth speech pathologists can help. Call 0412 256 656.

06/11/2025

How PROMPT Helps Children Speak More Clearly
Is your child struggling to be understood?
Do they appear to be groping at sounds and words?
They May Have CAS and require PROMPT !
READ ON!

PROMPT therapy focuses on:

Movement, not just sounds – helping the jaw, tongue, and lips move in the right sequence for speech.

Supporting the brain-to-mouth connection – guiding children to plan and coordinate speech movements.

Tactile cues – gentle touch cues from the Speech Pathologist to help the child feel how to produce sounds.

Building speech that is functional and meaningful – starting with important words your child needs in everyday life.

Gradual progression – moving from single sounds → syllables → words → phrases → everyday speaking.

Parent involvement – short home practice to reinforce progress and help speech become natural in daily life.

location: Unit 1 595 canning Hwy Alfred Cove
M:0412256656

06/11/2025

If you’ve been here a while, you know I go through periods of burnout. But what you probably don’t know is that I seem to be in a perpetual Autistic Burnout Loop.

This isn’t an official or scientific graph, just the pattern I find myself in, and one I suspect many of you might recognize too. I’ve pushed through for years, and I really hit burnout once I became a mother, and kinda just stayed there.

I’m lucky that I can take some breaks when I need to, but I still stay in this loop, usually because my rest is interrupted or just not sustainable. Because the truth is: my responsibilities don’t disappear when I rest. Attention and connection are what regulate my child (and usually dysregulate me). I still have to make money to support my family. My main regulation strategy is travel, which means I have to earn more than survival to access that kind of rest.

And then there’s so much guilt. Guilt that I’m not as present as my son deserves. Guilt that my business isn’t thriving like others’ social media creators seem to be. That I don’t have the business mindset or motivation or capacity for my business to thrive. Guilt for comparing myself at all. And guilt knowing there are people with less privilege facing greater hardships while I’m here talking about my struggles which aren’t really comparable.

I don’t have a solution for this cycle. But here are a few things I remind myself when it feels so heavy:
• Your feelings and experiences are valid.
• You are doing your best within your capacity.
• Rest is not a reward. It’s a right.
• You can’t keep pouring from an empty nervous system.
• Every small rest or break still helps!

I’m not out of the loop yet. But I’m learning to pause inside it. To try to catch my breath, to honor my limits, and to stop seeing survival as failure.

If you’re stuck in it too, you’re not alone. 💛