Little Parrots Speech Pathology

The moment you know that you've truely settled in to your new office with your new colleagues at Smiley Happy People! ❤️🐶🐕

NAILED IT! 👍

Today in speech sessions we made a cupcake 'Nailed It' challenge for ourselves. We are focusing on connection and fun today, so this challenge was perfect! ❤️

It's moving day!!! 🚚📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦
So many boxes...🙃

We are moving!

In a week, we will be moving our speech pathology room into the Smiley Happy People clinic! I am very excited to be working alongside Suzie and Marli from Smiley Happy People and I think we will have lots of fun!

Here's a video of our new speech pathology room and our new routines when we arrive and leave the SHP clinic.
https://youtu.be/mO7gPWsBkto?si=HbTPMZRCDgVws_Jf

Little Parrots Speech Pathology will now be located at:
603 Boronia Road
Wantirna

Our new speech pathology clinic space Welcome to our new speech pathology space in the Smiley Happy People clinic!

Happy World Storytelling Day!

Today in our speech sessions we did some great storytelling in the form of a news bulletin! We wrote a script for the 'newsreader', including a book review (it got 6 stars!!) and a weather report.

Yesterday, we made a storytelling chatterbox, including a main character of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson! It included some action- packed ideas for some exciting stories!
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Happy Leap Day! 🐸🎉

Make the most of your 'extra' day today! 😁💚💙💛

We had our second Lego social group today, as part of our school holidays sessions.

We've been talking about 'teamwork', compromising, and group plans while we've made shared plans about what we will all build with Lego and, of course, we had lots of fun too!

Building new friendships in a relaxed supportive environment! ❤️🥰👍

I'm back in the office today, to get ready for the busy year ahead!

However this year, I'll be without my wing-woman, Gael.🥹😭 Gael has had a HUGE year in 2023 and has (understandably) decided to simplify things, including giving up her work with Little Parrots.

I'm sure many of you have had the pleasure of speaking with Gael on the phone over the last few years. She is a gem and we will miss her greatly.

Gael, wishing you the best for the year ahead and I hope that you enjoy some more balance, time with the grandkids, and time to focus on you. 🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷

Merry Christmas to all our wonderful families and kids! 🎄🎁🎅

We hope you all have a fabulous Christmas and a relaxing summer holidays! 😎🌞🌊🏖

See you all in late January when we're back on board and ready for a new year! ❤️💚❤️💚

Another interest-based learning activity with some of our school aged clients!

Our goal for the term was story planning and adding in lots of information for the reader.

Both clients are Lego fans, so we built Lego, took photos for the book, and told the story to create our own original stories!!

So much fun! 😊 (And we learnt a lot too! 🤫😉)

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Building connections with the children we work with is essential. It builds trust, respect, and confidence that they are being listened to. 🥰

Interest-based learning + hands on activities = amazing outcomes!

This time of year can be challenging in the speech room. Kids can be tired and disengaged as it's been a long school term.

By using their interests and 'hands on' activities, we've been able to keep the kids engaged and put our skills into practice!

Over the last couple of weeks, we've made craft robots, cooking, lego storytelling, newspaper articles and more!

Lots of fun and plenty of learning ❤️😊

Is your child starting secondary school in 2024?

Knox City Council is running a FREE information session for parents next week!

Come along to the free information session for parents and carers
‘Transition from primary to secondary’ on Tuesday 28 November 7-8.30pm with Guest speaker- Rod Dungan
Online on zoom

To register

https://knox-vic-gov-au.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5UHgn_DYR6ipUvOm5Gj42w #/registration

In the clinic today, one of our young clients was learning about flexible thinking and 'thinking like a palm tree'!

So, what did we do? Made our own flexible palm tree for them to take home!

Pretty happy with how it turned out! 😊 🌴🌴🌴🌴

Come down and check out Smiley Happy People while helping them to celebrate their 2nd birthday! 🥳🎉

Explore their incredible 'rooms for regulation' and talk to the amazing Suzie who has a never ending passion for helping kids celebrate their strengths and develop their skills.

Oh, and grab a sausage because your kids probably won't want to leave! 😄

Hey everyone,
Smiley Happy People will be holding an open day on Sunday the 12th of November 10am-2pm to walk through our "rooms for regulation", grab a snag from the sausage sizzle and have a cuddle with our therapy dog shawnee.

Please feel free to pass this on to anyone you believe may be interested in our services.

Pop this date in your diary and hope to see you there! 😃💛

My first official day back at work after my breast cancer treatment! 💓🌸🎀

But first, a quiet coffee in the sun to start the new school term! ☕️

I hope your start to the term is a good one 😊

Only 2 spots left! 😊🌟

Our co-regulating and school readiness intensive holiday program is now open for enrolments! Email Suzie at [email protected] to request a form to enrol now 😊💛

SCHOOL READINESS PROGRAM! 🎒✏️📚

I will be running this fabulous school readiness group with the lovely Suzie from Smiley Happy People in the second week of the school holidays! ❤️

Our co-regulating and school readiness intensive holiday program is now open for enrolments! Email Suzie at [email protected] to request a form to enrol now 😊💛

Pretty nails! 💅

Sometimes speech sessions are just about engaging and building trust.

Today, I was lucky enough to have my nails painted by a teenage client while we talked about what has been happening in their life.

Didn't they do a great job? 🤩

Happy World Turtle Day!! 🐢

We've spent the day today learning about the difference between a turtle and a tortoise and making a wonderful display for our wall at the clinic!

We also learnt a turtle joke! 🐢
Q: What do you call a famous turtle?
A: A shell-ebrity! 😆🐢🌟

We had a fun and creative speech session this afternoon, creating a fabulous critter. The one and only...Kristiana! 🌟🎤❤️

By working together, being flexible with our ideas and compromising, we were able to create this dragerpillar (combination of a dragon and a caterpillar)! 🐲🐛

Lots of fun! 😊🌟

May 17th is IDAHOBIT - the International Day Against LGBTQIA+ Discrimination! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Little Parrots Speech Pathology is a proud inclusive practice and a fervent LGBTQIA+ ally.

Being a great ally is easy! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Please excuse the mess!! 😳

School holidays is usually my time to reorganise, restock, redecorate and recycle ♻️

Unfortunately, that means creating a huge mess while this process happens. So, if you're coming in to the clinic for a session this week, be forewarned! 🚨 It's a little messy!

Gotta make a little mess to make a little magic! 😉🪄✨️✨️

Today is Random Acts of Kindness Day! 💚💙❤

Do something kind for yourself, for someone you care about or a stranger! It doesn't have to be a grand gesture. Just a small act of kindness can make someone's day!

For HEAPS of kindness ideas or activities to do, go to https://www.randomactsofkindness.org/

A big shoutout to the wonderful Hannah and Danny Gamble from Thrive Occupational Therapy for Kids ! 📣📣📣

We LOVE using their The Me Tree program in our speech sessions. ❤️🌳❤️

By working on building a child's positive identity (in therapies, we often focus on what the child cannot do) and growth mindset strategies, we can help children to become more confident and flexible. ✨️💖✨️

These skills are so important for forming new friendships, interacting with peers in the playground and being a great communicator! 😊👍

When you're working in a school staff room and a chicken casually walks in! 🐔🐓

Never a dull moment! 😁😄

In this first week of term 1, we did a bit of box construction in the clinic 📦📦📦

Using our imaginations and lots of beautiful descriptive language, we made some UFOs and some colourful houses! 😊🦜✨️