03 Aug 2024 Helping Children Communicate Their Way
Helping Children Communicate Their Way: Speech Pathology for Children with Language Delay In the lead up to Speech Pathology week this month, we thought it would be good to have a...
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03 Aug 2024 Enhancing Social and Emotional Language Development in Young Children
Enhancing Social and Emotional Language Development in Young Children: The Collaboration of Speech Pathology and Psychology In the lead up to Speech Pathology week later this month, we thought it would...
02 Aug 2024 Key Word Sign: A Simple Tool for Better Communication at Home
Key Word Sign: A Simple Tool for Better Communication at Home In our busy, everyday lives, clear and effective communication with our children helps things run smoother! But trying to understand...
02 Aug 2024 Speech Pathology Week: Communicate Your Way
Celebrating Speech Pathology Australia Week (25/8-31/8): Communicate Your Way As we celebrate Speech Pathology Australia Week, running from August 25th to 31st, 2024, it’s an opportune time to shine a spotlight...
31 Jan 2024 10 Tips to Help Your Child Navigate Bullying and Friendship Challenges
What is Bullying? Bullying is when someone deliberately and repeatedly hurts another person emotionally and/or physically. Some examples of “overt bullying” include teasing, saying mean things, name calling, pushing, hitting and...
30 May 2023 Parent Involvement in Therapy
Why is it important to involve parents and caregivers in child psychology appointments? Parents play a central role in child therapy and parent participation in therapy can be important for...
14 Mar 2023 Listening skills for parents
Listening can be highly effective. However, it’s not easy because parents have to actively “do nothing”. Listening can be very effective for helping children who are feeling nervous and/or worried...
14 Jan 2023 Listening skills for parents
Listening is a skill. Listening can be highly effective. However, it’s not easy because parents have to actively “do nothing”. Listening can be very effective for helping children who are feeling...
14 Jan 2023 How to help your nervous or worried child by “simply” listening
When your child is nervous and/or worried, it is often parents’ first instinct to try to fix the problem – and why wouldn’t you? You love your child, and that’s...
13 Jan 2023 Helping children to start school
The anticipation, excitement, nervousness and bittersweet feelings that arise when children start school for the first time! Here are some things to think about for this process. Attending to practicalities is...