Little Cherubs Speech Pathology

21/12/2025

•Merry Christmas•

I wish you all a very safe and special Christmas and school holidays. I hope there is plenty of time for laughter, play and rest.

Thank you for yet another amazing year as you entrusted me into the lives of your little cherubs and your families; an honour that I will always be grateful for.

I look forward to seeing you all next year, but for now, it is time for some Christmas baking, ocean swims, kayak fishing, backyard cricket, a spot of camping and slushies in the pool with my own four little cherubs, my hubster and our Charlie-Rose 🐶 🌊 🏏 🏕️ 🍹.

💛 Miss Michelle

10/12/2025

•Elf on the Shelf FAIL•

03/12/2025

•PSA to fellow speechies and parents in week 9•

Sleigh 🛷 . We can do this!

•Even if you were chasing a dog around the front yard in your pjs at 2.30am 🙋‍♀️
•If you’ve answered the 100th question, intervened in a brawl and put music on to drown out the bickering, all before coffee 🙋‍♀️
•If your client tells you “you have spikes” on your legs 🙋‍♀️ (I’ll take the perfect use of an s-blend and plural)
•If your week has already consisted of juggling work with special school assemblies, swim carnivals and ballet concerts 🙋‍♀️

27/11/2025

•Fave resource appreciation 🤍•

This book is SO great and has been used in a heap of different ways this week in the clinic as we ‘slow launch’ Christmas.

🎄 Following directions- simple and complex
🎄Increasing attention to books
🎄Vocabulary- nouns, verbs and adjectives!
🎄Semantic links and categories
🎄Answering ‘wh’ questions
🎄Social cues and feelings
🎄Speech! There’s heaps of ‘s blends’ and the old favourites /k/ and /g/ for fronting
🎄Retell- so many opportunities for little cherubs to relate their own experiences to the book

Highly recommend for parents and speechies- Kmart $10 👏

29/10/2025

•uhm 🙋‍♀️ I have a question? And maybe a comment…or 10….•

True story. In a room full of parents last night 🤦‍♀️.

There was also the nugget of “In my day there weren’t as many kids diagnosed?”🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️
Followed by a comment about kids being over diagnosed with ADHD, “that is caused by the child’s environment” 😳 (insert WTF).

The actual opinion of a well known Australian “parenting expert” and “low key celebrity” as he referred to himself 🤯.

I had no words, and SO many words all at the same time. If it hadn’t been time up, I think my MANY words may have just come out of my mouth.

27/10/2025

•Halloween•

A monster mash, creepy craft, a haunted house, hide and spook, scary boo-ks, jumping critters and escaped zombies in the clinic this week!

Lots of fun and so many smiles- a few jumps from Miss Michelle when the decorations fall off the wall😱.

Happy Halloween to you all 👻 🕷️ 🎃

21/10/2025

07/10/2025

•Term 4 ☀️•

I hope you all had a lovely break with your families. I’m sufficiently covered in sunburn, mosquito bites and some cuts and bruises from a mad stack on a kids scooter- time to be back in the clinic!

Can’t wait to see you all for my favorite term of all 🎃 🎄 🎅.

🤍Miss Michelle

24/09/2025

•School holidays•
Where the words “too sweet for me” and also, “someone put me up a double shot of whiskey” are equally valid.

❤️

21/09/2025

•Monday musings•
“Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about” Marilyn Monroe

15/09/2025

•Week 10•
Brought to you by caffeine ☕️ .

Thank you for another wonderful term with your beautiful little cherubs (we’re nearly there!). I always find term 3 to be the most taxing on everyone 😅. It’s so nice to see the sun out now (mind the magpies!) and hopefully the end of all the winter bugs.

Bring on the school holidays ☀️ 🌊 🏕️

20/08/2025

•Book Week 🐛 🦋 •

I have a love/hate relationship with Book Week. I love everything about talking about books and instilling a love of reading in our little people. Books open up doors to places we’ve never been, they give us knowledge and cool new words to learn and set up our preschoolers for success with literacy- there is so much to love about books!

Research shows children that are read to are exposed to thousands more words by the time they hit school, than those who aren’t. We love books!

BUT… I’m not the crafty Mum that makes the amazing outfits - if it was a bake sale, I’d be all over it, but creating crafted outfits is not my thing. One of my kids is going in his footy gears 🏉 , one is a fairy with clothes out of the dress up box 🧚,and one found a random handed down giraffe onesie in his sisters wardrobe that fitted the brief 🦒 (even though it doesn’t actually fit the kid- the legs are up to his knees). Everyone is happy, job done.

Just a reminder, you don’t need to be that crafty mum, and you definitely don’t need to feel bad that your kid is in the store bought costume they’ve used for the past 2 years, Book Week celebrations are about just that, celebrating books. If you’ve enjoyed sharing a book with your child a few times this week, that’s a win in my eyes.