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15/11/2025

Free workshop on how to improve ONE thing about public playgrounds, than can help make them more accessible.

My friend and colleague, Speech Language Therapist Akshat Shah, has been part of a project to successfully get core boards installed in THREE playgrounds in his region.

In doing so, he and his inspired partner in this project, Speech Language Therapist Denise Poole, have created a blue-print that we can use, to work towards getting core boards installed in our own communities.

Akshat has agreed to come and share the process and steps he followed, and who he engaged with, to turn this from idea into reality.

So send this to your local friendly Counsellors and community board members and come along, ready to get inspired and energised about making this happen where you live. And make life a little bit friendlier, for some of the sweetest and most vulnerable children in our communities.

Comment with what you’d most like to see in playgrounds in your community, and I’ll send you the link to register.

03/11/2025

Sometimes what you need doesn’t exist… yet.

So you have to grow it yourself 🌸

The Supervision Membership gives Speech Language Therapists and Education Professionals a dedicated space for real growth, reflection, direction, learning and support — all year long.

Half of the 10 spaces have been snapped up already, before I started letting everyone know.

5 spaces left.

Comment with your favourite plant emoji, if you’d like me to send you the details 💐

Horrifying 😱 part two 👻Which one has happened to you?Share with someone who gets it.
30/10/2025

Horrifying 😱 part two 👻

Which one has happened to you?

Share with someone who gets it.

Ooooohhhhhhh!!! 👻Tell me yours!And share with your Speechie friends who will get it 😱
28/10/2025

Ooooohhhhhhh!!! 👻

Tell me yours!

And share with your Speechie friends who will get it 😱

24/10/2025

There are two things I would focus my time, resources and energy on, if I was a Teacher with children in my class with language difficulties like Developmental Language Disorder.

Teachers are busy, resources, time and energy are limited.

So you have to be extremely discerning about what you spend them on.

I care about these children and I want to help Teachers, who IMO aren’t getting enough support to help the children in their classrooms who need it the most.

I can’t offer you a Teacher Aide in every classroom (though I’ve been advocating for this for decades) but I CAN give you a quick, free webinar that will help you out in the most practical sense.

I will point you to the TWO areas to focus on that will make the most difference, in the most areas, with the least input.

And I’ll show you how you can do this within your existing classroom activities, and how you can access free or low-cost resources to support you to do so.

I’m holding this 10am NZT Monday 27 October (Labour Day).

Comment with your favourite strike protest slogan and I’ll send you the link to register to attend my workshop for free.

15/10/2025

Babbling is a predictor of future speech and language skills because it helps your baby practice, as they learn and develop communication.

So we want to get your baby babbling and babbling well, to give them a good foundation for later speech and language development.

❓But how do we do that???!!!

💭 Babble Boot Camp has the answer!

It was developed as a preventative intervention for infants born with risk factors and diagnoses with known associated speech and language delays and disorders.

But the techniques work with all babies 🤗

The initial research is showing promising results.

The most recent pilot study was on a group of infants with Down Syndrome, and all those participating showed increased babble complexity across the intervention and their first words emerged earlier than expected!

So when The New Zealand Down Syndrome Association approached me to present again for them this year on a communication topic for the World Down Syndrome Awareness Month Virtual Conference, I knew what I wanted to talk about 👶🥾🏕️

It’s this Wednesday 15 October from 7:30-8:30pm NZT and it’s FREE to attend.

Come along if you’re a parent, early childhood teacher or Speech Language Therapist wanting to know more to support children’s future speech and language development, from the very beginning.

Details to join in the comments.

14/10/2025

I’m giving a free one hour workshop for New Zealand Down Syndrome Association for the Annual World Down Syndrome Month Virtual Conference tonight, Weds 15th Oct on Babble Boot Camp, which is showing promising initial results as a preventative intervention for infants with Down Syndrome.

Feel free to join, or share with anyone you think might like to know about it. You can register here:

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