Viva Speech Pathology for Adults & Children

20/11/2025

Our new modified Voice care workshop for teachers was well received yesterday by the teachers and education assistants at the primary college @ Lake Joondalup Baptist college. Educators were able to practice:

✔️ low focused breathing for optimum voicing
✔️ posture for optimum voicing
✔️ reflected on their own voice quality
✔️ learnt how to warm-up voices
✔️ learnt how to release upper body and laryngeal tension before public speaking etc.
✔️ listened to the presenter demonstrate belting and twang Voice craft techniques
✔️ plus a lot more!

We had positive evaluations, all round. I will post the flyer in the comments and contact us if interested for your school (reception@vivaspeech.com.au or Tel: 9301 4128)

I. Gaudin, CPSP, Practice Owner ewkiae

18/11/2025

We are excitedly planning some new clinic and home based services for adults, launching in December 2025 already! Our new senior speech pathologist, Melissa van Zyl is commencing soon and will be assisted on the adult therapy team by our existing team of experienced therapists: Grace, Lyvia and practice owner, Inge.

Check out our assessment and therapy services below in blue, launching soon.

15/11/2025

We are sharing a community notice about safe toy information we have received.

Specific brands of sand toys are being recalled from Oficeworks and stockists due to asbestos risk e.g. brightly coloured sand yand designed for children to play with and for educational purposes and, as set out in the recall, is labelled as Kadink Sand (1.3kg), Educational Colours - Rainbow Sand (1.3kg) and Creatistics - Coloured Sand (1kg).

https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/customers-warned-of-recalled-children%E2%80%99s-sand-due-to-asbestos-risks?fbclid=IwZnRzaAOEw41leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5CGNhbGxzaXRlAjI1AAEe-FTBO8hJx5EWipOEsqudij86HGZ2t-YJqOgic3CBSCJw53JG6d7epG4H44M_aem_4YkNUBDiOTDnjmmpRXYrzge ttor h

The ACCC has published a recall notice over children’s sand products that may contain asbestos and were sold at various retailers including Officeworks.

13/11/2025

📢 Yanchep clients & families,
it’s a student free day tomorrow. No therapy in the school therapy room. Sessions available Friday 14th November @ the Yanchep medical centre.
Contact: inge@vivaspeech.com.au

29/10/2025

A new display for our Yokine clinic waiting room and for one of our therapists to show that we care!

Thank you to Fair Maiden Flowers for the beautiful and prompt everlasting artistic bouquet.

22/10/2025

I attended a special Alumni Curtin event yesterday on the International day of Stuttering Awareness to celebrate 50 years of Speech Pathology and 40 years of the Curtin Stuttering treatment clinic! This clinic in the Health sciences Building 404, treats children, adults and people with disabilities and is run by Senior Speech Pathologist, Kathy Viljoen.

It was a night of funny and inspiring speeches, music, refreshments and canapés. I recollected fond memories of working in this clinic as a student and learning so much in general in those forming years on campus. I was thankful and inspired to see so many previous lecturers and supervisors, still passionately committed to supporting growth and development in the field.

My colleagues and I at Viva Speech Pathology are excited to assist more students in the future and to learn about the new directions and research our dynamic field. The Curtin campus is looking fantastic and has such an apt motto from John Curtin himself, “Look, ever forward”.

Inge Gaudin (Practice Owner)

{Assessment & treatment available for children and adults who stutter in Viva Yokine, Joondalup and Yanchep clinics}

Bookings: 9301 4128 reception@vivaspeech.com.au

21/10/2025

My SP colleague, Jordan Skewes and I, conducted a successful parent talk at Yanchep rise primary today for the incoming Kindy 2026 students.
Please see attached Kindy handout for parents and teachers. This handout can be emailed out also. Please contact reception@vivaspeech.com.au for our handout to be emailed.
Inge Gaudin (Practice Owner)

20/10/2025

Well I thoroughly enjoyed my 🗣️Lidcombe stuttering therapy session 🗣️ today with a boy in pre-primary at our new Yokine clinic. I have sent the family the graph to rate the child’s fluency level, the Lidcombe parent website and our new updated Viva SP handout to use this program in the initial states at home.

Contact us to make an appointment (9301 4128) with our therapists who treat stuttering. It is a highly effective Australian program (researched since 1980’s) by the Australian stuttering research centre. I also use a version of it “Time out therapy” based on the same evidenced based principles for teenagers and adults.

Inge Gaudin (Practice owner)

17/10/2025

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Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) is the most prevalent childhood communication difficulty, impacting a child's primary language development. It has a profound effect on the lives of over 40,000 children and their families in Western Australia.

Parliament Fountains will be lit purple this evening to support the awareness of this permanent disability. The 2025 DLD Awareness Day theme is ‘You can’t see DLD’.

To learn more👇
https://radld.org/

RADLD - Raising Awareness of Developmental Language Disorder

17/10/2025

It is DLD Awareness day today. Below are statistics, facts and information about the lived experience of people who have Developmental Language disorder (DLD). Speech pathologists provide evidenced based treatment for toddlers, students and adults with these difficulties. Feel free to contact us for more information if you would like to organise an assessment (08 9301 4128 or reception@vivaspeech.com.au)
Yokine | Joondalup | Yanchep

15/10/2025

13/10/2025

Poster: 5 year old typical communication skills

In assessment we identify skills to target and in therapy our therapists use creativity and fun activities to practice and consolidate new skills.

Our contact details:
Bookings: 08 9301 4128
reception@vivaspeech.com.au
Offering face-to-face appointments in Yokine | Joondalup | Yanchep

{Let us know if you are a teacher and would like a PDF copy emailed to you}