Ashley Hopfe Speech Pathology

Today begins Speech Pathology Week for 2023.
This year's theme is "Communicating for Life".
Speech Pathology Week promotes the speech pathology profession and the work done by speech pathologists. Did you know that 1 in 7 Australian's will have a communication difficulty at some stage in their life?
Communication is a basic human right and Speech Pathology Week helps to raise awareness of communication disability and the role of speech pathologists.

This afternoon our Senior Speech Pathologist Ashley attended the first of two Talking Mats training sessions. She is looking forward to using this resource with families after completing the training later in August.

Beautiful flowers from beautiful siblings today to make my car smell nice ☀️

Check out our new business page!

We're proud to be supporting Neurodiversity Celebration Week 2023!

Neurodiversity Celebration Week is a worldwide initiative that challenges stereotypes and misconceptions about neurological differences.

Together, let's change the narrative to understand, accept, and celebrate neurodiversity!

Check out my new business page with the fabulous Lauren from Stay and Play OT

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090212173614&mibextid=LQQJ4d

Stay and Play Allied Services Mobile allied health service providing Speech Pathology and Occupational Therapy supports

We are officially closed from now until Monday 9th January 2023.
Have a Merry Christmas 🎄 and we’ll see you in the new year with some exciting news! 🫢

My youngest is a COVID baby having been born in May 2020 so I am keen to read this!

Never before in my career have I had so many referrals for 2 year olds with delayed language and no other diagnosis than I have received over the past 12-18 months!

Early Release!

Today we published an update on the latest research about early development and the pandemic, AND we give you some tips for shifting from fear-based conversations to discussions about how we can best support kids where they're at.

Read this research review and then cross your fingers that you'll spend more relaxing this month and less time providing free SLP expertise to all your family and friends. 😉

https://www.theinformedslp.com/review/infant-development-and-covid-vol-2

Festive feels for the last week of work for 2022! 🎄🎅🏼

Language matters. Empathy matters.

Watching What Was It Like? in iview

What Was It Like? Eight filmmakers with intellectual disability interview their parents about what it was like when doctors delivered the news of their diagnosis.

Have you seen our new resources for Nursery Rhymes on the website?
Here's the start of a great song about a frog. You can get the rest of the handout and see a video in the Children's Songs and Nursery Rhymes section at https://kwsa.org.au/resources/. Check out our other resources while you're there!