Joanne Ravell Speech Language Pathologist

27/03/2026

Today’s PRESENTER SPOTLIGHT 💡💡
The amazing Joanne Ravell Speech Language Pathologist

25/03/2026

What is the question? credit to for the video that I adapted for my autistic students 🙌🏻💪🏻

23/03/2026

Thank you 💪🏻‼️REGISTER in Comments or in bio.

19/03/2026

When pre verbal children with decreased comprehension levels know it’s home time, but parents aren’t due for a while 😭😭😭 and there is high anxiety having to wait…

17/03/2026

https://www.impactlearning.co.za/eci-series-part-1a-preparing-your-therapy-space-to-match-your-approach/ ‼️ Not your average course workshop for teachers and therapists. ❤️For children with complex sensory needs and those who struggle to engage and participate in a classroom or therapy session. Part 1 “approaches”, part 2 “set up your therapy room / classroom”

17/03/2026

https://www.impactlearning.co.za/eci-series-part-1a-preparing-your-therapy-space-to-match-your-approach/

This is not your typical or conventional ECI talks: this is a webinar series for therapists who want to improve confidence and success in helping challenging patients who won’t engage, who just want to walk/ run/ jump, struggle to focus or who have high sensory needs. Today’s webinar will be the...

16/03/2026

Core word help

16/03/2026

IT’S JUST SPEECH!”

I hear from so many parent’s looking for support for their child who hear a response from some professionals, friends and family of, “IT’S JUST SPEECH!”

Really???

That is so wrong and it belittles the struggle that the child has, daily, to speak and to communicate their needs. How would the adult who is saying, “it’s just speech,” feel if they suddenly lost the ability to speak? Not forgetting the fact that the inability to speak and communicate has a huge impact on all area’s of our life.

The following are four very worrying statistics which makes the comment, “it’s just speech,” as a response even more frustrating to hear.

• Up to a third of children with untreated communication difficulties will develop subsequent mental health issues.

• A study of young unemployed men found that over 88% were presenting with a language impairment.

• More than 50% of children excluded from schools have an unidentified communication delay.

• One study in a young offenders institute found that 60% of the men had communication difficulties.

Sadly, speech, language and communication difficulties are NOT taken seriously enough in our society.

For example, 25% of children are starting school with a speech, language and communication need and this increases to 50% in deprived areas and unfortunately teachers just don’t get enough training on how this impacts on a child’s time in the classroom. It can affect their learning, the ability to build friendships, communicating their needs and their confidence. They can be left feeling isolated, lonely and have feeling of worthlessness which then affects their self esteem and mental health.

It is so much more than, “Just speech!”

16/03/2026

Found on a meme sharing post and to good not to share here, autism therapy red flags.
By Autistic Mama