Speak To Me
Speak To Me is a paediatric speech & language therapy clinic located in Milford. We work with families to achieve their child’s communication goals.
Speak To Me is a North Shore based private speech and language therapy practice. Speak To Me offers a variety of speech and language therapy services for both preschoolers and school aged children. Speak To Me endeavours to help all children develop the tools needed for effective communication. Rosie Dwyer graduated from the University of Auckland with a Masters in Speech and Language Therapy Prac
11/04/2023
This is a long overdue post as she’s been with us since Feb but welcome to the Speak To Me team We are so excited to have you and your expertise on board! An added bonus that she likes SLT chats over a wine 🍷
04/12/2022
Woohoo! We are having a 20% off sale on the following listed Bjorem Speech Publication products, to make room for an order of the newer products coming in the new year. This promotion will run for two weeks and will stop at midnight on Monday 19th December. Use discount code 20off
Bjorem Speech Sound Cue Big Box
Cluster Cues
Contrast Cues for Speech and Literacy
Phonology Targets for Cycles: S-Clusters
Phonology Targets for Cycles: Initial & Final Consonant Deletion
Phonology Targets for Cycles: Fronting & Backing
Final Consonant Deletion
Box of… P, B, M, N, T, D, F, V, K, G
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31/10/2022
Happy Halloween 🎃 Lego sensory box has been a real hit
31/10/2022
Make therapy individualised, steer clear of ‘cookie cutter’ approaches and most importantly make it FUN
20/10/2022
Fan favourite 🤩 not just with the kids
10/10/2022
These are the Bjorem Speech Sound Cue Cards & the Conrast Cue Cards, they are a great investment to help parents support their children’s early literacy development. Perfect for children from 4-7 years. Children can make words using phonemes (sounds) instead of letters, they can also use these cards to create rhymes. Phonological awareness skills have a strong correlation to emerging literacy success. Check them out on our website today!
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always getting the jump on me! I do love having some of these handy to motivate the kids to work hard with their speech targets!
07/10/2022
PET PEEVE: Please make sure to use evidence based approaches when treating SSD. Let’s all be confident choosing the right approach for that specific child and their diagnosed SSD. Now I will jump off my soap box 🤣
05/10/2022
One thing I have actively taken away from the (🙏🏻) is the importance of rather than gathering data during therapy. Here I use a multidimensional scoring method with 0 = incorrect, 1 = close (one mild vowel distortion, one instance of groping, one phoneme off by at least one distinctive feature). 5 stimuli were probed during 5 random trials and then scored accordingly. These scores help me decide when families can start practicing target words at home, and when targets have generalised into spontaneous speech and can be replaced with new targets. Although I’m not promoting cards are still handy to have out 👍
22/09/2022
This week is New Zealand Speech Language Therapy Awareness week. The theme for this year is ❤️ I love my job and all the amazing kids I get to work with daily. I count myself super lucky!
28/07/2022
Have you heard of Dynamic Assessments? Do you use them? They are particularly helpful when assessing kids with motor speech impairment. Check out the Dynamic Evaluation of Motor Speech Skill (DEMSS, Strand & McCauley) as well as the Bjorem Informal Motor Speech Assessment ()
Watch the video 🎥 to learn a bit more about how to use the Contrast Cues for Speech and Literacy cards to work on phonemic awareness
09/06/2022
Do you know which treatment approaches for Apraxia have the most evidence base behind them? Are you trained in these approaches? There are many other approaches that have some good evidence behind them too, but these three have some great solid studies supporting them :)
31/05/2022
Getting teletherapy ready using the box and the from and ❤️ the 🚂 concept
20/05/2022
When your working on a ‘tricky word’ using simultaneous imitation and you need the child to focus your face 🤡🤣
12/05/2022
What to consider when choosing CAS targets; sounds in the child’s repertoire, movement of sounds into words not single sound stimulability, differing word structures (CV, VC, CVC, CVCV), less target words but more repetitions, as well as motivating / functional words 🙌
Here is gorgeous Florence working hard using the approach and creating an awesome cafe ☕️ 🍦 🍪 🍰 We used the word ending _oop to make soup, goop and coop. The Contrast Cues for Literacy and Speech made it super easy too! .pasley
05/05/2022
It’s Apraxia Awareness Month 📢 Do you know some of the early signs of a possible Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) Diagnosis? I would strongly encourage you to check out the following accounts to learn more about Please share your favourite CAS accounts in the comments!
05/05/2022
Yay it’s Friday! Have you checked out all the Bjorem Speech Products available on our website? We received a re-stock of old favourites and two new products this week! To celebrate heading into the weekend enjoy free shipping to anywhere in NZ and anywhere in Australia. Use the code FRIYAY at the checkout!
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DTTC therapy in action! Here we are working on the phrase “That one”. We are using play, high repetitions and Bjorem X Boardmaker make shift phrase cards 🤣 we need a phrase set! How do you guys work on phrases? I’m teaching him to say “Tha_ one” using the as in this phrase we have an example of glottalization
28/04/2022
Is markedness magical 🪄 Do you consider markedness when choosing your targets / treatment approach for phonological intervention? Markedness is definitely a favourite of here at
14/04/2022
Session prep! I love using this data collection form by ❤️ the best is the scoring rubric which is designed for 👌 These target words are selected for a child who does not yet make oral sounds, only nasals. He is working hard and making some great progress!
I am truely excited to have downloaded the old skool Sega game as a reward for the kids. I swear I’m only playing the odd game in between sessions 😉 Pure nostalgic happiness ✨
31/03/2022
Oral-facial exams 👅 Do you guys do an oral-facial exam as part of your speech sound assessment? We find they form an integral part of the differential diagnosis process. Personally, and I love the informal assessment as it has great picture cards to help the children to understand what we would like them to do 🙌
30/03/2022
Snapshot of the minimal pairs approach in action today with Contrasting words starting with “w” and “r” sounds using the gliding cards - and it is beautifully generalising to “r” words we haven’t been directly working on 🤩
22/03/2022
Best new arrivals today to kick off my first day back at work after two weeks off with a family full of COVID. looking forward to this one!
17/03/2022
When working with speech sound disorders differential diagnosis is so important. Once you have completed your assessment battery and analysed the results you can choose the best therapy approach for that child. Minimal pairs is one approach that we tend to use a lot of. We ❤️ the minimal pair cards by Here’s a little more information on the what and why of
16/03/2022
Back when I was out and about pre 🦠 I really love the functionality of from Look how much I can fit into it on my school visits! Magic 🪄
15/03/2022
Minimal Pair cards - these are the minimal pair cards from and we use them all the time. Yes we have colour coded them and hung them up
06/03/2022
Just a quick update, the clinic is still open, we are still seeing children in person, some of our sessions are outside, all are well ventilated, spacing and masks are still employed. We are also still seeing children in schools
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Speak To Me Story
Speak To Me is a private speech-language therapy practice located on the North Shore of Auckland. Speak To Me offers a variety of speech, language, and literacy services for preschoolers, school aged children and adolescents. Although the clinic is located on the North Shore, Speak To Me offers roaming services for the Auckland region. We will endeavour to help your child develop the tools needed for effective communication.
At Speak To Me we love what we do and this is reflected in speech therapy sessions. We want your child to love coming to Speak To Me for speech therapy, as this will ensure maximum progress towards set goals and most importantly child participation in therapy sessions! We make sure our sessions are fun and engaging and our toy cupboards help too!
"From our initial assessment with Rosie right through until our four year old daughters final speech lesson I was so impressed with Rosie and the service she offers. Her gentle and kind nature meant she was able to gain our daughters trust quickly enabling her to focus on the lesson. Rosie always made it fun and interactive. So much so that our three year old daughter always asked when was it her turn to play with Rosie. Our daughter is gaining confidence all the time because her speech has improved so much she can be clearly understood. Rosie was also able to provide us as parents with the skills to continue working on our daughters speech development by ourselves. I have no hesitation in recommending Rosie as a speech therapist and I will certainly be returning to her if I have any concerns regarding my other children's speech development."
"We went to see Gemma with our son who was a couple of months off from starting school. He was having a lot of difficulty making certain sounds, which we attribute to countless ear infections and grommets. We had been to a speech therapist before but had limited progress. This was not the case with Gemma, he came on in leaps and bounds. She has the best approach with children, you can tell that she really likes children and enjoys her job. Our son looked forward to his sessions and had no idea that he was working towards speech goals. He speaks so clearly and beautifully now. Gemma cracked it! We cannot recommend her enough."
Referrals for Speak To Me are accepted by parents, caregivers, teachers (with parental consent), general practitioners and specialists.
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Address
4/5 Tennyson Avenue, Takapuna
Auckland
0622
Opening Hours
| Monday | 9am - 5pm |
| Tuesday | 9am - 5pm |
| Wednesday | 9am - 5pm |
| Thursday | 9am - 5pm |
| Friday | 9am - 5pm |
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