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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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

  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: 

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...

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.

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...

SPT Business Manager Sharon Breen is excited about our team expanding and the potential to increase our capacity to serve more Tasmanians. 

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...

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 are making so much rapid progress. They’re progressing faster than I’ve ever seen.