Tebogo Soodisa ST&A

09/10/2025

October is AAC awareness month! It’s is our reminder that communication is a human right — and all forms of communication are valid.

AAC means:
✅ Participation – being part of family life, school, work, and community.
✅ Self-determination – making choices, expressing preferences, saying no.
✅ Learning – developing language, literacy, and cognitive skills.
✅ Identity – sharing humour, personality, and culture.
✅ Relationships – building friendships and connections.

This Month, let’s remember: it’s not about the device — it’s about rights, dignity, and inclusion.

19/05/2025

To all the Speech Therapists out there, cheers to you all and the work you do 🥳♥️

02/04/2025

Celebrating neurodiversity

03/03/2025

03/03/2025

Changing mindsets: Empower yourself to make ear and hearing care a reality for all!

03/12/2024

There is a relationship between oral language and literacy. Oral language can easily influence reading and writing.

Many children with Dyslexia have challenges with the phonological component of language:
1. Phonological awareness (awareness of the sounds of the language)
2. Phonological memory (pronunciation of letter names)
3. Phonological retrieval (word and name retrieval)
4. Phonological production (pronunciation of phonologically complex words)

Does your little one struggle with any of these components?

03/12/2024

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02/12/2024

Joint Attention:
This is the ability to share a common focus on something with someone else. You need to gain, maintain and shift attention. This aids us in communicating and develops social skills.

Early joint attention skills:
• Reaching to be picked up.
• Pointing to a toy.
• Looking at the same page in a book.

Later joint attention skills:
• Focusing on a game.
• Playing make believe.
• Requesting favourite food.

02/12/2024

Help your little ones learn to try new foods:
1: Eat the same food alongside them. Kids learn through watching and imitation. For some, even just watching (and smelling) someone else eating a food can be difficult so be a role model.
2: Model interactions with new foods in a fun and achievable way. If your little one isn’t willing to touch wet foods (like fruit), then model smelling and touching it (with a utensil, another food or a full hand). If your little one will lick the fruit, then model biting it to break it up.
3: Use language without pressure. Avoid telling your little one what to do and focus your language on what you’re doing instead. If it sounds or looks enticing, it may convince them to try it for themselves. You want them to try when they are ready and not because you are telling them to do it. You can also speak in the hypothetical (e.g.: I wonder which food with crunch the loudest? I wonder if I can balance this circle on my tongue?)

25/07/2024

We are so excited to announce our School Hearing Screening Program!

C Ngobeni Inc has launched an incredible program aimed at identifying pupils with potential hearing loss early in their academic journey. Implementing the hearing screening progam in schools will greatly help with early detection and intervention which will be crucial to minimizing the negative effects of hearing impairment.

For more information and enquiries, do not hesitate to reach out to us and we will answer any questions you have.

Let's prioritize our hearing health 😊

04/07/2024