Whiz Kids Therapy

23/07/2025

🌟 Discover epic stories on the Whiz Kids website! 🌟 We’re ditching standard quotes for tales of incredible people, starting with Carmen Lawrence, WA’s first female Premier, who said: “Politics is not just about power; it’s about making a difference.” Her courage in fighting for education and health inspires us to help kids find their voice through speech therapy! 💬 Read her story. Who would you like to see next—what inspiring person should we feature next? Share your ideas below! 👇 https://whizkidstherapy.com/therapy/ -lawrence

17/07/2025

Allied health providers, your expertise changes lives 🌟 The NDIS encourages charging for tasks like prep, notes, and resources that deliver real value to participants. Our latest blog, "From Freebies to Fair Fees: Charging for Unbilled Tasks While Staying Compliant", shares how to bill non-face-to-face work under NDIS 2025-26 rules, keeping your practice sustainable without compromising care. . 💙

The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is evolving, and so are the demands on allied health providers. With therapy rates frozen at $193.99/hour since 2019 and rising business costs—insurance up 30%, wages, and CPD—many providers are rethinking how they bill for essential but previously...

27/05/2025

At Whiz Kids Therapy, we’re spilling the tea on how big providers play fee roulette—skimming 10–20% off therapy rates for “referrals” while double-dipping on coordination funds already in the budget. Spoiler: it’s not funny when women, 80% of allied health pros, get stuck with less pay and more paperwork. This isn’t the NDIS’s inclusive dream—it’s a bureaucratic plot twist! Join us as we unpack the mess, champion feminist fairness, and rally speech pathologists, OTs, and psychologists for equitable care. Ready to rewrite the script? Dive into our first blog and connect with us to make therapy truly transformative.

Alex Cullen, Whiz Kids Therapy, explores the challenges, while celebrating the NDIS’s potential, and advocates for empowering care models to enhance outcomes for families accessing the NDIS.

25/05/2023

Great idea!

Dictation is a controlled activity that demonstrates how decoding (reading) and encoding (spelling) are reversible - and we love it!

A great way to get children to do dictation in a meaningful way is to use sentences from the decodable books the children have read with characters and stories they love to make learning all the more fun.

Here is an example below to help get you and your kids started.

14/02/2023

17/01/2023

💥New Blog Post 💥
6 Effective Practices to Move Literacy Learning Forward
https://www.theliteracyhill.com/post/6-effective-practices-to-move-literacy-learning-forward

This image is also in my article in the new edition of Dystinct Magazine To read my parent guide to effective practice and a host of other amazing articles about early literacy learning, click the link here 👇

They are offering FREE access until the 20th of January to celebrate their second anniversary.

https://www.magsfast.com/Magazines/Dystinct-Magazine/Issue13?code=SLLDystinct&fbclid=IwAR3Cm6i6t_NhxOpeYJ1SrQviU1gV7Pf82ELOUyzKXfXPc-D_bQuwahf_2XE