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We’ve got something new to share…
We're excited to annouce the launch of our new resource website, Figure of Speech Resources. For a long time now, we've had a vision to create a space where people could come for support and resources to help nurture and enrich the development of language and...
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas at SPT!
A Christmas tree installation has appeared on the wall opposite the reception desk in the Hobart clinic. In order to decorate the tree, we are asking for help from our young clients! There are some blank cardboard ‘baubles’ available from reception, and the...
It’s DLD Day: Developmental Language Disorder – Increasing Our Awareness
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...
Our Contribution to Speech Pathology Week
Thanks to the media outlets who featured some of our work during Speech Pathology Week 2022.
John McKillop Scholarship
The John McKillop Scholarship has been established by Speech Pathology Tasmania, in partnership with UTas, in memory of the late husband of our beloved colleague Linda.
Speech Pathology Week 2022
We’re celebrating Speech Pathology Week 2022 with colouring-in for young visitors to the clinic during August 21-27.
Welcome Defiance
There is a 'joke' in the speechie world that we 'teach kids to talk back'. And it's true! Let me explain: We celebrate when a child demonstrates the skills to refuse or to say no, because this is clear advocacy for their own wants and needs! Self-advocacy! And here’s...
Speech and school partnership changing education outcomes
Her Excellency the Governor of Tasmania hosted a celebration of the collaboration between Tasmania’s Speech Pathologists and Catholic schools, at Government House on June 30.
NDIS Meal Management Clinic
SPT’s new dysphagia clinic will focus on NDIS meal management assessment and plans for adults.
Our Submission to the Tasmanian Literacy Advisory Panel
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 here:
Towards #100PercentLiteracy: 9% to 82% in a year
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...
Social Skills… You’re Welcome.
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...
Changes to our Hobart clinic therapy rooms
With our team of therapists growing, we find the need to make some changes to our Hobart clinic. Speech therapist Caroline Ross has prepared this social story ‘Different Rooms at SPT’ to help clients who might find it challenging to adjust to sessions in a new room.
I Wonder… Do Other Mothers Worry As Much?
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 differences...
An exciting year ahead
SPT Business Manager Sharon Breen is excited about our team expanding and the potential to increase our capacity to serve more Tasmanians.
A Unicorn Job
“You’ve got a unicorn job(!) - the kind of job everyone wants to have... except they don’t really exist!” So said a friend of our wonderful team member Renee, about Renee's magical, marvelous work. After seven years raising her daughter, Renee was thinking about...
Logopède… obviously.
Earlier this week I was in a zoom meeting with a clever, outgoing, French scientist. The conversation trip-trapped around to this topic of shared interest, then that… and somewhere in the midst he told me that he has dyslexia. Then completely matter-of-factly, he...
Bush Adventure Therapy Program 2024
Speech Pathology Tasmania is partnering with Adventure Works Australia for the Bush Adventure Therapy Program in 2023.
Intentional Accidental Counsellors
Here's a few of our great gang after finishing a Lifeline 'Accidental Counsellor' training together. Allan, in the blue on the right, was in the 'gang' for the day as our fabulous facilitator. But he's well and truly in our gang for life as someone who reverberates...
The Kids: A Song Of Their Heroes
The kids are making so much rapid progress. They’re progressing faster than I’ve ever seen.