Mandurah Speech Pathology Clear Speech Pathology Clinic

16/11/2025

On Saturday the MSP team attended the Peel Chamber of Commerce Business Awards, where we were honoured to be finalists in both the Small Business and Business Woman of Excellence categories.
While we didn’t take home an award this year, we had an absolutely wonderful evening celebrating together outside of work and connecting with so many inspiring business owners from across the Peel region.

A huge congratulations to Kelly Doohan from Iconic Wealth for winning the Small Business category, and to Monique from RippleAbility for taking out Business Woman of Excellence. RippleAbility is an incredible organisation providing vital support to families of children with complex disabilities and medical needs. I was lucky enough to be a very small part of their Respite Pilot program recently and the work they do in the disability space is next level ✨️ ✨️

We truly love being Speech Pathologists, it's such a rewarding profession, and we are grateful every day for the families and community we get to serve. Peel Chamber of Commerce & Industry Inc.

13/11/2025

This /sh/ sound has truly been a long-term labour of love! Mr X used to replace many of his sounds with a /g/ or /k/, for example, shoe (goo), shower (gower), four (gour), chair (gair).
He had significant motor speech difficulties and only a small range of consonants for a very long time.

He’s worked incredibly hard to reshape his sound production, and now his /sh/ is sounding fantastic! We had a little detour when it briefly turned into an /s/, but after focusing on tongue placement and careful listening, he’s really nailed it. Now, the next step is to keep practising and generalising that great /sh/ sound across all contexts!

22/10/2025

🧱 USING LEGO® IN SPEECH THERAPY: Building Skills Brick by Brick! 🗣️✨

I’m always on the lookout for fun, engaging, and effective resources and activities to support my clients work towards their therapy goals and one of my all-time favorites is… LEGO®!
These colorful little bricks aren’t just great for play! They’re incredibly versatile for targeting a range of speech therapy goals!

💡 Why LEGO® Works in Speech Therapy:
• Highly Motivating: Kids LOVE building! It keeps them engaged and makes therapy feel like play.
• Naturally Interactive: Encourages shared interactiongs, joint attention, and collaboration.
• Language-Rich Opportunities: Describing, requesting, sequencing, and problem-solving are built right into the process.
• Flexible for Any Goal: Whether targeting articulation (I often target /L/,/BR//G/) receptive/expressive language, or social interactions 😊
🧠 Ideas for Using LEGO® in Speech Therapy:
1. Following Directions:
Give multi-step verbal instructions like “Pick a red brick, then place it on the blue one.” Increase complexity as skills improve.
2. Descriptive Language & Adjectives:
“Can you find a tall, skinny, yellow piece?” Great for expanding vocabulary and sentence structure.
3. Requesting & Turn-Taking:
It can be great for for modeling sentence frames.
4. Sequencing & Storytelling:
Build scenes (a house, spaceship, zoo!) and have the child describe the steps or create a story about what happens there.
5. Articulation Practice:
6. Social Communication (Pragmatics):
In small groups children can work together to build something, helping with cooperative play, asking for help, or negotiating roles.

🧱❤️🗣️

18/10/2025

12/10/2025

ME 🙋‍♀️ Anytime the playdough comes out in the office 🤣

07/10/2025

FIND YOUR FRIENDS: A great game to play in many ways:
😊The "intended way"- flip a card over and the first to find the matching picture puts their marker down.

BUT it is also a great game that you can shape around more specific language activities such as:
🫠 Yes/no questions- are you holding a person? Is your person a girl? Does your card have a pink background etc
🥸 Taking a card and describing it to the other person, who then tries to find the correct match- “it's a girl, on a blue background, she has short black hair, is wearing gold earrings, she is smiling and you can see her teeth and she is holding a book.” This goal is shaped around descriptive language, the process of elimination, and the use of location concepts-top, middle, bottom, left, right, next to, under, below, above etc
🫡Pronouns- she/he, his/her, him/her etc

03/10/2025

💫💫💫We are super excited to announce that Mandurah Speech Pathology has been named a Finalist in the Alcoa Peel Business Awards in the Small Business category! 💙

Congratulations to all the incredible finalists across the different categories, it’s an honour for MSP to stand alongside such wonderful businesses from across the Peel region.

A heartfelt thank you to the Peel Chamber of Commerce & Industry Inc. and to all the event sponsors for bringing together such a vibrant showcase of local business-events like these are a wonderful opportunity to connect, celebrate, and collaborate.

Thank you for continuing to support local and for investing in the growth and strength of our Peel community and an extra thankyou to the wonderful families that we get to work with daily, for trusting us with your child's speech therapy journey.
🥰 I truly believe being a Speech Pathology is the BEST job in the world! Communication is everything and being able to share in a child's journey as they reach their communication goals is priceless.

01/10/2025

YAY FOR OPSHOPS| I get alot of resources for opshops- buying local, saving landfill and honeslty I just love a good bargain- especially something like this and the many many many ways I can use it in clinic (will just have to aim to NOT lose the keys 🤣)

29/09/2025

Surely it's not just my child who wears socks to the beach as she doesn't like the feel on sand on her feet and toes 🤷‍♀️

23/09/2025

I absolutely welcome more research into autism, its prevalence, genetics, and potential causes. What I don’t welcome is the mainstream media spreading misinformation.

Changes in the DSM diagnostic criteria over the years has significantly influenced how autism is understood and diagnosed. Each edition of the DSM has shifted the framework, altering what is considered necessary for a diagnosis. For example, earlier versions used terms such as Autistic Disorder, Asperger’s Disorder, and Pervasive Developmental Disorder – Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS). With the release of the DSM-5, these were merged under the single umbrella term Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
These changes have had a direct impact on who meets the criteria, how clinicians approach assessments, and the way services and supports are allocated. For some families, it has meant clearer pathways and recognition; for others, it has raised concerns about children who might previously have qualified for a diagnosis but now fall outside the updated thresholds.

And lastly-

Does anyone honestly believe that parents pursue an autism diagnosis for their child “for fun”? The diagnostic process is long, rigorous, and emotionally exhausting. Parents don’t enjoy spending countless hours in assessments, advocating for their child at every level, and rushing between therapy appointments. On top of that, they constantly face critique from those in the community who are far less informed.
For families, this is not a hobby or a convenience: it’s an ongoing fight to ensure their child gets the support, understanding, and opportunities they deserve.

23/09/2025

To parents: you are not to blame!

We are in full support of all parents, families, and individuals impacted with autism.

Todays claims, without gold standard confirmed research, further divides and hurts people that need the most support, not blame.

We see you, we support you, we celebrate you!

18/09/2025

Trying to give Mr X visual feedback of what he was doing as we worked on his /s/ sound and it backfired as he couldn't stop looking at himself 🤣🤣