Perth Speech Pathology

27/08/2023

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2023-08-27/the-songs-we-sing-to-babies-and-why-we-sing-them/102701592?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web

We make up endless silly, sweet, spontaneous songs to sing to our children. Have you ever thought about why?

31/03/2023

❤️❤️‍🩹 sending out love and support to the trans community today!

21/03/2023

Our Swanbourne clinic will be available for all our clients as of mid-April. We look forward to welcoming you 😊

02/03/2023

⭐️ Happy WorldPride! 🌈🏳️‍⚧️⚧️
Coming together to celebrate diversity, appreciate how far we have come, and acknowledge how far we have still have to go to become a truly inclusive society 🥰

06/12/2022

Merry Christmas to all our wonderful families. We wish you a safe and happy holiday break. A great night with our work gang to mark the end of 2022 - thanks team and congratulations 🪓 Angelo the ax champion 🪓

18/11/2022

If you’re interested in reading science and reading instruction, this podcast series is for you 😊

There's an idea about how children learn to read that's held sway in schools for more than a generation — even though it was proven wrong by cognitive scientists decades ago. Teaching methods based on this idea can make it harder for children to learn how to read. In this new podcast, host Emily H...

02/11/2022

29/10/2022

Posting for a friend…. Please get in contact if interested! Di is a wonderful colleague and person !

Our small but rapidly growing practice is looking to hire speech pathologists to join our team.

Di, the managing director and Insider Business' Top 50 Small Business Leaders winner for 2022, is passionate about helping children with their speech and language problems and is looking for someone as passionate and innovative to join her beautiful team of Speech pathologists.

If this sounds interesting to you, then apply here: diana@perthhillsspeech.com

12/10/2022

Aphasia is a language disorder that can develop after a stroke, head injury or from a progressive disease. Here’s some tips on communicating with a person with aphasia.

Tips to Help Me Talk to You:

🗣Please learn and save these tips if you communicate with people with aphasia.

🧑‍🏫 Learn more about aphasia, our programs, and resources at:

www.aphasiarecoveryconnection.org
Aphasia Recovery Connection, 501(c)3

🛟 A lifeline of hope

04/10/2022

Our senior speechie, Katie, just ran three Mealtime training sessions for 48 staff at a Perth nursing home. They were attended by 14 RNs, 24 carers, 1 OT, 4 therapy staff and 5 from the Production Kitchen. Knowledgeable staff means safer and happier residents…. Well done Katie!

26/08/2022

When teachers ask children to try other cues than looking at the word and decoding it, they are in fact asking them to guess.

It would seem that we are offering children other reading strategies but what we are actually doing is encouraging them to read like poor readers who have no decoding strategies and must rely on unreliable guessing.

Thank you Dr Michael Paff for this post.

26/08/2022

Today is Wear It Purple Day! Wear It Purple strives to foster supportive, safe, empowering and inclusive environments for LGBTQIA+ young people, particularly in schools and workplaces.

This year’s theme is ‘Still Me, Still Human’. This message is about how society tends to focus heavily on labels, data, and headlines, and forgets that LGBTQIA+ youth are more than this: they are real individuals, beautiful humans deserving of love and happiness.