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Autumn Therapy

Our mission is to empower clients to live their most fulfilling lives through compassionate, evidence-based therapy to achieve their goals.

We are dedicated to a collaborative approach ensuring all feel heard, supported, and inspired to thrive.

17/12/2025

🍂 TA Shout-out! 🍂

Big kudos to Jess (TA) for supporting a client to build social communication and retell skills during a community session.

Using the client’s interest in rock climbing, Jess helped make learning meaningful, motivating, and real-world focused 🧗‍♀️✨

You truly never know where you could end up when therapy follows curiosity and connection. 🍁

15/12/2025

🎄✨ Holiday Closure ✨🎄

We’re pausing for clauses 🧑‍🎄🗣️
Autumn Therapy will be closed from 19 December to 5 January while we rest, recharge, and let our communication batteries re-fill 🔋🍂

We’ll be back in the new year, ready to help goals sleigh, strategies stick, and conversations flow ❄️✨

Until then—go gently, take care, and remember that rest is part of growth 💛

See you in 2026!
❤️ 🍂

12/12/2025

Using Bathroom Routines for Language Practice

Name items – Label what you see (toothbrush, soap, towel) and talk about what each one is used for. Builds vocabulary and understanding of function.

Action words – Model and practise verbs like wash, brush, rinse, wipe, and dry during routines. Perfect for everyday repetition.

Sequencing steps – Talk through routines in order (“First we brush our teeth, then we rinse, last we dry our face”). Supports sequencing and time words.

Following directions – Give 1–2 step instructions (“Pick up the towel,” “Turn off the tap”). Builds listening and comprehension.

Describing – Talk about texture, temperature, and colour (“The water is warm,” “The towel is soft”). Expands describing vocabulary.

Compare & contrast – Compare items (“My toothbrush is blue, yours is green”; “This towel is bigger”). Great for comparing language.

Pronouns & possessives – Use phrases like “my towel,” “your toothbrush,” and “his soap” to practise ownership and pronouns.

Role-play – Pretend to brush a doll’s teeth or wash a teddy’s hands. Encourages imaginative play and expressive language.

08/12/2025

🌿 What Are Boundaries? 🌿

Boundaries are the invisible lines that protect our time, energy, emotions, and physical space.

They help us:
✔ Know what we’re okay with
✔ Say no when something feels wrong
✔ Say yes to what feels safe and good
✔ Build respectful, balanced relationships

✨ Think of them like a garden fence, not to shut people out, but to protect what matters inside.

Everyone’s boundaries look a little different. And that’s okay. 💛 Learning to set, hold, and respect them takes practice.

Your boundaries are valid. Your comfort matters. You don’t have to earn rest, safety, or respect.

🍂 At Autumn Therapy, we support clients and families to understand, express, and practise healthy boundaries through communication goals and support strategies.

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05/12/2025

Using Photos or Artwork for Language Practice

Guess who/what – Cover part of the photo and ask your child to guess what’s missing. Great for prediction and inferencing skills.

What happens next? – Look at a photo and imagine the next part of the story (“He’s holding a ball… what might happen next?”). Builds storytelling and future-tense language.

Feelings talk – Point to people in pictures and talk about how they might be feeling and why. Encourages empathy and emotional vocabulary.

Compare & contrast – Place two photos side by side and describe similarities and differences (“Both have animals… this one has a cat, that one has a dog”). Supports describing and comparing language.

Time talk – Use family photos to talk about past, present, and future (“Last summer we went… now we are at home… next we will…”). Helps with sequencing and time concepts.

Question game – Take turns asking and answering “who, what, where, when, why” questions about the picture. Builds comprehension and curiosity.

Caption challenge – Make up funny or serious captions for photos. Encourages creativity, humour, and sentence structure.

Role-play – Pretend to be one of the people in the picture and act out what they might say or do. Great for perspective-taking and expressive language.

04/12/2025

🍂 Autumn Therapy – Supporting Communication & Connection 🍂

We offer warm, evidence-based support for children, teens, and adults.

🍂 1:1 Speech Therapy
• Speech sounds (PROMPT-trained)
• Expressive & receptive language
• Social communication & boundary-setting
• Literacy (Sounds-Write)
• Executive functioning support
• AAC trials & coaching
• Fluency & voice
• Functional strategies for home, school & community

🍂 Therapy Assistant Program
Structured, practical support using Sounds-Write, Colourful Semantics, and naturalistic communication.
✨ Register your interest via our TA form.

🍂 Group Programs
Neuro-affirming, interest-based groups that build confidence and connection:
• LEGO® Group
• Art & Expression
• Sounds-Write Literacy
• Teen Transport
• Cooking Club
• Goop Group
• Hobby Hangouts
✨ Tell us your interests — we’ll help you find your group.

🍂 Early Childhood Screenings

Gentle, play-based check-ins for schools and kindergartens.
Includes: onsite visits, short screenings, clear reports, and practical strategies.

🍂 ASD Assessments
We offer neuro-affirming, strengths-based Autism assessments that include developmental history, assessment, language profiling, optional observations, and a clear, practical report.

🍂 Now taking enquiries for 2026, links in bio.

03/12/2025

Fostering disability-inclusive communities is how we drive real social progress.
Inclusion isn’t an add-on, it’s the foundation of a fair, connected society.

At Autumn Therapy, this looks like:
• Creating environments (schools, workplaces, services, community spaces) that are accessible without extra barriers
• Recognising neurodiversity, communication differences, and mobility needs as natural parts of human diversity
• Ensuring people with disability are included in decisions, policies, and everyday practices
• Moving beyond “special” or separate approaches and embracing universal access, representation, and respect

When communication is accessible, participation becomes possible and when people can participate, our whole community grows stronger.

28/11/2025

🍎 Kitchen Items – Everyday Language Practice

The kitchen is full of language learning moments! Use fruit, tins, or utensils to build vocabulary and thinking skills:

- Naming and describing: Label items (“apple,” “spoon,” “bowl”) and add details (“It’s shiny,” “It’s round,” “It’s cold”).
- Comparing: Ask questions like “Which is bigger?” “Which is heavier?” or “Which one is red?” to practise describing and comparing words.
- Sequencing: Talk through simple cooking or snack routines (“First we cut, then we mix, next we pour”). Builds understanding of order and time words.
- Following instructions: Give simple directions (“Pass me the spoon,” “Put the apple in the bowl”). Great for listening and comprehension.
- Category talk: Sort items into groups fruits, utensils, or containers to build understanding of how things go together.

Action words: Use verbs like cut, mix, stir, pour, open, close, scoop, and spread.

✨ Everyday routines are rich with opportunities to practise language, no extra prep needed! ✨

21/11/2025

👕🧦 Laundry Edition: Everyday Language Practice 🧺✨

Turn laundry time into learning time! Here are easy ways to build language skills while sorting, folding, and putting clothes away:

🧦 Sock match-up – Find pairs, practise colours, patterns, and plurals (“two socks”).

🧦 Sock toss – Roll socks into balls and throw into the basket. Use action words (“throw,” “catch”) and location words (“in,” “out”).

👕 Sorting shirts – Sort by size, colour, or who they belong to. Great for categories and describing words.

🩳 Folding fun – Give step-by-step instructions to fold clothes. Builds sequencing and following directions.

🧺 Laundry basket game – Hide toys or clothes in the basket and use prepositions (“under,” “next to,” “on top”).

🧴 Laundry products – Talk about washing powder/liquid/softener, compare containers (big, small, heavy, light).

👖 Who does it belong to? – Match clothes to family members, practise possessive language (“Dad’s pants,” “Mum’s jumper”).

🌈 Colour hunt – “Find all the red clothes!” Builds vocabulary and attention.

✨ Everyday chores = everyday language practice! ✨

14/11/2025

🛋️ Couch Language Ideas

Hide & seek objects – Hide toys under, behind, or between cushions. Kids practise prepositions (“under the cushion,” “behind the couch”).

Obstacle course – Climb over, crawl under, go around the couch. Great for action words and following directions.

Story seat – Sit together and tell or retell stories using puppets, dolls, or even just the cushions as characters (“This is Mr Cushion, he’s sleepy”).

Sorting game – Line up cushions by size, colour, or shape. Talk about comparisons (“bigger, smaller, tallest, shortest”).

Cushion shop – Pretend each cushion is for sale. Practise role-play: asking, answering, using money words.

Emotion practice – Use cushions as “faces” and act out different feelings (“This cushion is happy, this one is angry”).

Treasure hunt – Hide picture cards or household items around the couch. Give multi-step instructions to find them.

Cushion counting – Stack and count cushions, practise plurals, or make sentences (“There are three cushions on the couch”).

Imaginative play – Turn the couch into a bus, boat, or spaceship. Encourage storytelling and new vocabulary.

Yes/No game – Place an item on the couch and ask silly questions (“Is this a banana?” “No, it’s a sock!”). Builds questioning and humour.

11/11/2025

🥔 Mr Potato Head: More Than Just Play!

This classic toy is a speechie favourite, helping kids learn language, social skills, and body safety while having fun! 💬✨

👃 Vocabulary – Name and describe body parts (nose, hat, shoes).
🧠 Sentences & Grammar – “He has two eyes.” “I’m putting on his hat.”
🗣️ Speech Sounds – Practise sounds in words (hat, nose, ears).
🤝 Social Skills – Take turns, request pieces, share ideas, laugh together.
💛 Body Safety – Learn correct names for body parts to build confidence and self-advocacy.

Simple play = powerful learning. 🌿

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10/11/2025

Today we remember. 🌹
At Autumn Therapy, we pause to honour the courage and sacrifice of those who have served and those who continue to serve our country.
Lest we forget. ❤️

🌹 ❤️

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Perth, WA
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Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

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+61411847126

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https://autumn-therapy.com/

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