Joanne Ravell Speech Language Pathologist

13/11/2025

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11/11/2025

Our children love all things visual! 🔅🩵 Step one: enhance your daily routine with visual schedules (VS) songs and narration. This is “Language development 101” 🩵🔅. BUT a VS can also can support high anxiety by decreasing the “unknowns” in their little worlds and creating safety in predictability (according to the evidence and literature), so a VS can also be ANXIETY 101, AUTISM 101, NEURODIVERGENCE 101.

📚Course details in comments

11/11/2025

What a win! 🩷

10/11/2025

We recently created a new downloadable leaflet as a starting point for introducing the concept and importance of modelling for communication partners who are supporting someone learning to use symbol based AAC systems!

Download for free here: https://buff.ly/DnQJsb4

10/11/2025

It’s totally ok to use videos at first! Find that thing that sings to their soul, because that’s the first battle won. Connected experiences and fun is priority one with early communication intervention ECI. . ECI self- study courses available at

28/10/2025

Singatha Centre - Tutor & Therapy Centre This we need for a certain little Mr 🤣

New Video: How to revert to a previously saved version of a Pageset in TD Snap, https://youtu.be/O6jYWZvz5Vk?si=nHhg83jVQ3Sm79JP.

Note: Requires a WiFi connection and you have to be logged into your MyTobiiDynavox account.

Image Description: a screenshot of TD Snap on my iPad with the syncing menu “saved versions” popup shown.

28/10/2025

Echolalia is not purely an Autistic Behaviour‼️Research and evidence links echolalia and language comprehension. So, build a foundation of language comprehension and the ability to use creative language and novel sentences, grows 🌱🌿🌳💚 EARLY COMMUNICATION COURSES AVAILABLE 🔗 link in comments

24/10/2025

What is interoception?

>>> https://www.kelly-mahler.com/what-is-interoception/

24/10/2025

23/10/2025

🔅Working with ADHD (or a short attention span) Apraxia and Autism as often as I do, it’s the simple things that help to build joint attention and visual attention, bringing attention to target pictures or toys. 🔆 A Mini torch on a bracelet is so user friendly and easily available, to help with getting attention FAST, creating awareness of low tech AAC requesting symbols (or toys or whatever), when you’re using them. Take too long and they’re onto the next thing!! Especially in Early Communication Intervention with the little ones.

My ECI courses listen with Humanity Wellness Academy have a whole lot more of these tips along with evidence- based approaches.

📚❤️🩵Check the link in the comments for course info.

🌈🌈 The Rainbow Room has these mini torches on sale with other great sensory items 🌈

21/10/2025

In 2018, I wrote my 5 book children’s audiobook series ‼️🙏🏻 800 books were sold in the first 6 months after the launch! 📚📚This month, 4 books have been translated into isiZulu 🤩💪🏻 Theae audio stories support listening and language development in children as young as two, building auditory processing and language processing 🩵 using music, sound effects and stories with a bit of fun and drama and a social emotional lesson