Kids in the Hills Speech Pathology

18/11/2025

Here's my newsletter sent to the local kindy and childcare centres. This month, there's some ideas about toys that help to encourage communication skills . Maybe give you some inspiration for Christmas ideas?!

14/11/2025

A quick reminder for those kindy clients looking to start prep next year. Here are the ages when most children are able to say each sound currently. If you have concerns about your child, give us a call to see how we can help to get your child ready (mob: 0402 070 299).
If a child has difficulty saying certain sounds, it will often then impact on learning to read and spell these sounds as well.

11/11/2025

With all the recent storms we've had In Brisbane, I got stuck out shopping during one downpour at a toy shop. Not a bad placed to get stuck really!!! So I just had to buy something... here's my new "Squigz". They stick to most hard surfaces, and you can then build with then. I'm hoping they can be used as a great reinforcer and motivator for some of my slightly older clients who are up for a challenge!

28/10/2025

All the shops seem to have Christmas decorations out, so I thought it wasn't too early to pull out my letterbox to Santa. There's something about posting things into a letterbox that most kids love!
Generally we 'post' letters that are specific picture cards for sounds we are focusing in our sessions. I also used it today to 'post' pictures of people doing different activities where we were focusing on verbs, pronouns and responding to 'what's happening?' questions.

21/10/2025

I'm a little slow in posting... but here's one of the jobs that happened behind the scenes during the recent school holidays. It's tidying, organising, rearranging all the toys and activities I use during therapy sessions!!

10/10/2025

For children getting ready for prep next year, it's helpful to start talking about the sounds we hear in words. Letter names are helpful, but sounds are even better as this is what we use to sound out words.
Here's my newsletter send to local kindy/childcare centres for October with some ideas to try.....

07/10/2025

When trying to achieve lots of practices of new sounds and words, often quite simple activities can be highly engaging and effective with you children. Three dice is always better then one!
So we rolled each dice and said our words that many times as per dice, then worked out what 'big' number we made with all three dice added together! Great for young kids interested in maths.

03/10/2025

100 blocks, perfect to achieve 100 practices of our new words. This little one was very keen to design different patterns as we built our 'wall'!

30/09/2025

School holiday activities..... water play and volcanoes!
Lots of fun in the warmer weather, and lots of opportunities to expand vocabulary.

21/09/2025

Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) is all about language. But what do we mean by 'language'?
This handy poster explains it all using tacos as an example!
Share, print and explain all about language so more people know about DLD.
is Friday October 17th 2025. Theme: you can't see DLD.
radld.org

12/09/2025

For Speechies - you can now purchase recordings of my recent online workshops via my website! Check them out here.

Purchase speech pathology workshops

09/09/2025

Looking for ideas as a parent to help with your child's talking? Five from Five has some great resources to help guide you!

Parents and caregivers have an important role to play in children’s literacy development both before and after they start school. The foundations of literacy – phonological awareness, vocabulary and oral language – begin to develop in the early years of life, before children begin formal readi...