Speaking of Learning

Speaking of Learning celebration – Another teenager client has learnt to read ahead to find meaning in the stories she likes.

🌟Celebrating Client Wins🌟

‘My brain leaves the room’: what happens when teachers talk too much?
Follow this link for a well researched and important article on the need to keep language simple in the classroom to support children at all levels of learning ability.

‘My brain leaves the room’: what happens when teachers talk too much? In a new study, we interviewed 59 Year 10 students with language or attention disorders about their English classrooms.

Who knew that enjoying a book with your child is also helping build their early literacy, vocabulary, emotional awareness and so much more. Here at Speaking of Learning, we love books!

📚 Logan JAR, Justice LM, Yumuş M, Chaparro-Moreno LJ. When children are not read to at home: The million word gap. J Dev Behav Pediatr. 2019 Jun;40(5):383-386. doi:10.1097/DBP.0000000000000657. PMID:30908424.
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How exciting to see this year's shortlist of standout books which appeal to children while supporting communication and literacy ✨

Given age-appropriate decodable readers, a teenage client has been supported to learn to read and now loves it!

🌟Celebrating Client Wins🌟

With Speech Pathology Australia – we support our National Body and are on their weekly engagement list by being one of their top engagers! 🎉

At Speaking of Learning, we celebrate and affirm this reform to prove evidence-based literacy education for all 👏👏👏

Speech Pathology Australia welcomes today's announcement by the Allan Labor Government to embed evidence-based teaching and learning practices in Victorian schools from 2025 – a priority SPA and the profession have long advocated for.

The focus on explicit teaching through systematic synthetic phonics, aligns with growing evidence that supports its effectiveness in teaching children to read.

As specialists in language development and communication disorders, speech pathologists are primed and committed to supporting the successful implementation of these reforms.

Read more on our website: https://bit.ly/3KJh1ew

Helping a child understand the social world around them is a big part of a Speech Pathologist’s role.



(Image by rebbeccadevitt0 from Pixabay)

Did you know Speech Pathologists work in all these areas, plus more!

What is your favorite area to treat?

Happy National Speech-Language Month to all the individuals, caregivers, and clinicians involved in this field!

Maybe it's poor intelligibility. Maybe it's Pokemon😄

Does your child have difficulty being understood or speak in a way that others find hard to comprehend? There can be multiple reasons that your Speech Pathologists at Speaking of Learning are trained to detect and treat. We’d love to help!

Meet Hannah. She is a fourth year Speech Pathology student who is working as an Allied Health Assistant at Speaking of Learning. 🌟
She very capably implements therapy plans made by our Speech Pathologists to provide a quality service for our clients at a reduced cost. 🌟

Speaking of Learning wishes everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

We had our end of year Christmas celebration yesterday and it was truly a blast! Our incredibly talented administrative assistant, Rosalie, decorated our office AND put together an impressive nine-course menu featuring elements inspired by The Twelve Days of Christmas song! 🤯 Our creative Speechies also came up with fun games too so it was an afternoon filled with lots of laughs and delicious food ☺️ We couldn’t have asked for a better way to wrap up the busy year 💕

We are currently closed for Christmas and New Year break and we will reopen on the 8th of January, 2024. Happy holidays and see you all next year!

A warm welcome to Adriana, our new Speech Pathologist at Speaking of Learning!

Adriana is an experienced Speech Pathologist who is fluent in both English and Mandarin. She has just started working in our clinic on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. If you see her in the clinic, please say hi!

Adriana, we’re so excited to have you on board!

Last week, we celebrated our end-of-term team SoL-cial with a fun night of Paint n’ Sip! It was truly a therapeutic experience, and it surely was a rare sight for our chatty Speechies to be deep in their zones painting quietly!

Many thanks to our Speechies and admin staff who made this fun social happen! We can’t wait to hang our finished paintings in our offices for our lovely clients to see!

We are pleased to announce the return of our Senior Speech Pathologist, Jerusha! Jerusha has just returned from her maternity leave and will be with us on Wednesday afternoons. Welcome back!

Wearing blue in honour of all our wonderful Speech Pathologists helping people across the lifespan to reach their full communication potential!

It’s hard to believe, but statistics show that 1 in 7 Australian’s will have a communication difficulty at some stage in their lives!

This could be needing help with late talking or support to say speech sounds or to speak fluently, it could be needing help with understanding and using language effectively, either socially or within the school curriculum, it could even be to help maintain voice quality or to learn to speak and swallow safely again after a stroke.

There are SO many areas across the lifespan that Certified Practicing Speech Pathologists are trained to support, and we love what we do 💙

We are thrilled to share with you that Speaking of Learning Speech Pathology has won an Enablement Award as The Most Outstanding Learning Speech Pathology Practice in Australia in 2023, under the ‘Disability Services’ category!

The Enablement Awards were created to celebrate and reward excellence, innovation and exemplary achievements in the disability care sector in Australasia. The Awards recognise the rapid growth of this sector in the region, and the capacity of individuals to influence and set new performance standards. The Awards focus on elevated performance; the creation of new business models; contrarian thinking; recognising and embracing new trends; market leadership; inspirational performance and the elevation of the customer experience.

This is a testament to the consistent hard work we’ve put in to deliver quality services to our valued clients, and we will continue to do our part to provide quality Speech Pathology support as a team!

Just as our practice name suggests… We love learning together as a team!

We continued learning about the importance of executive functioning skills during our fortnightly group supervision yesterday. It was great to learn more about what executive functioning skills are, and how to support our clients to build their executive functioning skills which are crucial for the development of language skills, mental flexibility and emotional regulation.

Here’s to more learning together in the new school term!

Speaking of Learning is happy to share some exciting news with you!

We will be combining our Mitcham and Ringwood clinics. The Ringwood Clinic is at 10-12 Warrandyte Road, Ringwood. It’s a great clinic location with us located right opposite Eastland. There is ample parking available and the clinic is disability access friendly!

The Mitcham Clinic will be closing, with final sessions being held on Friday, 23 June.

We look forward to seeing our clients and families at the Ringwood Clinic from Monday, 10 July!

Throwback to our first SoL-cial of the year at the end of Term 1! We had so much fun and it sure was a quiz-zical night!

Scroll down to find out the team name we came up with…
“We Thought This Was Speed Dating” 💞

Are you a Speech Pathologist who is interested in building your career, growing your leadership skills, empowering a lovely team of Speech Pathologists, and enriching the lives of clients?

Speaking of Learning is seeking an experienced Senior Speech Pathologist to join our ever-growing practice! We are a Speech Pathology private practice which offers a broad range of Speech Pathology services to clients predominantly in the Eastern suburbs. We value excellence, integrity, respect and compassion and these core values are evident in our team culture and the quality of services we provide.

We value support and growth in our Practice. Being in a supportive team means you will have regular (weekly to fortnightly) individual PLUS peer supervision and wonderful administrative team support to help make your work easier.

This role involves:
- Provision of mentorship, training and formal 1:1 supervision to less experienced clinicians
- Working collaboratively with the Principal Speech Pathologist and business manager to develop strategic plans to grow our practice
- Contribution to clinical processes within the Practice
- Service coordination in schools
- Provision of assessments, written reports, support letters and clinical notes to inform client’s therapy progress
- Provision of therapy services in private clinic as well as school visits
- Liaison with external service providers such as Paediatricians, General Practitioners and other allied health professionals

This Role Requires:
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience as a Speech Pathologist
- Broad clinical experience with pre-school and/or school-aged children
- Specific skills required in management of language delay and disorder, phonology, literacy, fluency, developmental delay, Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Current membership of Speech Pathology Australia
- Professional indemnity, Public Liability and Products Insurance (Guild policy recommended)
- Current WWCC
- Current Driver's licence
- A valid NDIS Worker Screening Check

For more information, please contact [email protected]. We look forward to hearing from you!

Last week, we held a farewell lunch for our incredibly wonderful Senior Speech Pathologist, Valerie. Valerie has contributed to the lives of many clients and to the development of our Practice in her period of eight years’ of service. She has been a valued member of the Speaking of Learning team and will be greatly missed.

Valerie, we wish you all the best in your future endeavours! ✨

👏🏻 WE👏🏻 ARE👏🏻 HIRING📣

Speaking of Learning is currently seeking a Grade 1 or Grade 2 Speech Pathologist to join our supportive team! Both part-time and full-time positions are available.

You will have the opportunity to develop a broad range of skills in a school with a varied caseload (Deafness, dyspraxia, Autism, cleft palate, Intellectual Disability, Alternative and Augmentative Communication). Opportunities to work in our Mitcham or Ringwood clinic will be available as well.

We provide regular individual PLUS group supervision, and our excellent administrative team will be supporting you with your non-clinical load as well!

For more information, please contact our Principal Speech Pathologist, Louise Rowland at [email protected], including a letter of application, contact details, and resume. We look forward to hearing from you!

Warmest welcome to our two new Speech Pathologists, Lucy and Taija!

Some of you may remember Lucy and Taija who did their student placements with us at Speaking of Learning last year.

Lucy and Taija, we’re so excited to have you in our team!

Speaking of Learning wishes everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

We are currently closed for Christmas and New Year and our clinic will reopen on the 9th of January. Happy holidays and we’ll see you in 2023!

And just like that, we’ve come to the end of Term 3!



We had so much fun during our end of term SoL-cial, and we celebrated our beautiful Speechie, Jerusha as she embarks on an exciting journey of motherhood. We will miss you Jerusha and we know you’re going to be a fantastic Speechie mum!