Swinnerton Speech Pathology

Crafternoon making visuals for my clients 💛

I love making visual resources because they can do things that my therapy does not.

Visual Aids can:

🌈 Simplify routines and complex instructions to make them easier to understand

🌈 Help clients to communicate how they feel

🌈 Can reduce anxiety surrounding what comes next which helps to make clients to feel more secure

🌈 Can help facilitate better communication through utilising pictures and symbols

It has been an absolute pleasure to mentor Majella. I have been in awe of Majella’s passion and dedication to her clients. Supporting Majella’s professional journey as a thoughtful and creative clinician has been so rewarding. 💛

I am so grateful for the opportunity to mentor such a fabulous speechie! If you’re looking to elevate your business or enhance your professional development, I’d love to help you on your journey 🌈

Do you often feel overwhelmed by the pressures of your speech pathology career and wonder if there’s a better way to do what you love? 😬

Earlybird tickets close this Friday for my Speech Pathology Made Easy workshop! ✨✨

Join us to find out how you can create better work-life balance, feel less stuck and reclaim your passion for speech pathology! 🔥

This workshop is suitable for neurodivergent therapists and anyone working in the allied health industry! Register via the link in comments 👇

A belated Happy Speech Path Week! I celebrated by hanging out with these wonderful Speechie private practice business owner colleagues, and spreading the word about all the ways we can communicate to the GP’s and Registrar’s at my workplace!

Our role as therapists is to build capacity so that the children we work with can become more independent, develop skills and participate in their communities. ✨

We can ask coaching questions like "What do you think helped your child to do that" to support the 'people around the child' to identify which strategies are working for the child, and to continue to use these in the child's natural settings.

When your logo gets made into a cookie!!

How amazing is this research by Speechies at ! 🤩 A few weeks ago I got to attend their webinar on mapping out phonology of bilingual children to determine if they had a speech sound disorder that needed intervention or not. They have some great resources on the CSU website to guide us speechies to transcribe the phonetics of other languages 🙌 🙌

🌟 The questions we ask parents matter. 🌟 Listening to the caregivers and families we work with is so important to get to the crux of what is happening. Ask "How important is that to you" to get a sense of whether this is something the parent wants help with today, or something that they just need to get off their chest. Including families in goal-setting and intervention planning is crucial for child's progress. 💪 A question such as "What would you like to get out of today's therapy session" shows parents that they are they play an active role in their child's intervention. This will lead to greater buy-in and lead to better outcomes for children 🙌 🙌 🥅

🎉 Exciting news- we are offering two Early Language programs this semester 🎉 The program is for late talkers and autistic children aged 0-6! 🗣️✨ Learn fun, effective strategies to boost your child's language skills and help them interact with peers! 🚀👶 Join us for a FREE information session! 💬❤️ Register at https://www.swinnertonspeech.com/groups

✨ Empower and build capacity by using coaching questions. ✨

A question such as "How does that compare between now and 6 months ago?" helps parents to reflect and recognise positive changes in their child and in the family environment 🗓️

Follow this up with: "What do you think helped your child to get here?" to open up a discussion with the family about what tools, strategies and resources 📚 💼 have allowed for this progress to be made.

Then you can encourage families to continue doing the things that are helping their child make continual progress. 💬 📈

A coaching approach that upskills caregivers means that children can get the therapy support everyday in all interactions 🙌 🙌

💫 Want to learn how to help your child with their talking, understanding, play, book and friendship skills?

💫 Want a program where you practice the strategies with your child and feel confident to implement them in everyday life?

💫This online, evening program will give you the knowledge, skills and next steps to make individualised home plans for your child. A speech pathologist will work 1:1 with you AND your child to guide and coach you in implementing the strategies with your child through real-time feedback and support.

💫 Due to overwhelmingly positive feedback from families, we are pleased to be once again facilitating the Hanen More Than Words program for autistic children AND It Takes Two To Talk for late talkers! Register today for our free information session, www.swinnertonspeech.com/groups
NDIS funding can be used for this program and it is available Australia-wide.

What is a communication partner? A communication partner is anyone who talks or interacts with you.

Communication is always a two-way process. Both people involved in a communicative interaction are responsible for successful communication.

For a person with communication difficulties, their communication partner is even more important. Learn more about supporting communication by visiting the Communication Hub website: https://communicationhub.com.au/

Love this app for helping parents support their young children with change, transition and anxiety. It comes with pre-written social stories and visual schedules that are editable so parents can personalise it, put in their own photos and write their own!

🦁 Courageous Kids is a new app helping young children manage change and new situations with social scripts.

This form of storytelling describes a context, skill, achievement or idea in a clear and direct way, making it easy for children to grasp.

No more worrying about your child's anxiety when they visit the dentist or attend a birthday party — with Courageous Kids, you can create personalised social scripts tailored to your child's needs. 🤗

Plus, you can also create visual plans for your child to follow, complete with a visual timer, AND these visual plans can also be printed out!

The app is designed to empower the caregivers of young children to directly reduce their child's anxiety and set them up for success with new experiences. It is available to download for free in the Google Play and App Store now.

The app's developer is looking to continuously improve Courageous Kids and welcomes feedback to help improve functionality.

For more information, or to download the app, visit the Courage Kids website: https://www.courageouskidsapp.com/social-stories/

I am excited to be offering families Hanen More Than Words group program in Term 2, Tuesday nights via Zoom! This evidence-based program is for families of children aged 0-6 with autism or social skills delays