by Rosie Martin | Oct 14, 2022 | sptblog
Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) is a neurobiologically-based communication disorder that interferes with the development of language. It’s a ‘hidden disability’. You can’t look at someone and see their DLD. But DLD has enormous knock-on effects. For too many...
by Rosie Martin | Mar 28, 2022 | sptblog
The Government of Tasmania has asked the community to give their views about literacy and what is to be done to improve it. We are grateful for the opportunity to set out our views in the link right...
by Rosie Martin | Feb 25, 2022 | sptblog
I work a day per week in a school in a low ICSEA (Index of Community Socio-Educational Advantage) area in Tasmania. The principal and staff are amazing. And so were the principal and staff before the current lot. They care. They trust each other and they work as a...
by Rosie Martin | Feb 17, 2022 | Projects, sptblog
At the moment our team of fabulous speechies are screening and assessing the speech and language of nearly 700 early years Tasmanian school children. These little people, forming and growing, never fail to delight. Every one of them is magnificent. The team are...
by Rosie Martin | Feb 5, 2022 | sptblog
School is going back and it triggered one of the lovely mums I (Rosie) work with to send me the most incredible, honest, vulnerable email. It’s worthy of a wider read because she so beautifully captures the heart of many mothers I know whose children have...
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