Assessment, Therapy, Reports, & Liaison with Stakeholders
As per NDIS Price Guide
Travel
As per NDIS Price Guide
Available for face to face sessions (at a location of your choice), and tele-therapy (Zoom, Skype, Google meets).
Clinic based therapy is unavailable at the moment. If this is something you need, please let me know so that I can make arrangements.
Clinical Supervision
My areas of interests are in Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Access Methods, Selection of Vocabulary for AAC, programming AAC devices, and supporting people with disabilities.
For Key Word Sign enquiries, I offer KWS workshops a few times a year.
Our Service pathway
With Sam the Speechie, we will work together collaboratively towards your goal. This is how our path will look like:
- Initial Consultation and Goal Setting- information gathering, assessment (observations, informal assessments, dynamic assessments).
- Further Assessments (as needed) and Goal Setting
- Therapy Block
- Review of progress
- Report writing (as needed)
Everyone has something to say. Everyone can learn something new today. Sam the Speechie can help you find your words. Let’s start chatting!
Language is important for understanding what others say and expressing ourselves in words, sentences, and stories. If you or your child have difficulties with language, they may find it difficult to follow instructions, or to tell you what has happened in detail. Sam the Speechie can help you or your child improve his or her language skills.
Clear speech is important to be understood. A person with speech difficulties knows what they want to say, but may find it difficult for others to understand them. This can often lead to frustration. Sam the Speechie can help you or your child with their intelligibility.
A safe mealtime is important to reduce the risk of choking. People with disabilities can have an increased risk of choking. Developing a mealtime plan for everyone to follow can help reduce the risk. A person can always learn new skills to help reduce their risk of choking too. Sam the Speechie can help you or your child with supporting a safer mealtime.
Sometimes, a person or a child may not have sufficient verbal speech to communicate effectively. AAC can help to support or help to provide a means of communication for social connectedness. Sam the Speechie can help you, your AAC user, and his/her social network to find the appropriate AAC and to develop the skills to use AAC to build stronger relationships.
No person is an island. We all need to communicate with another person for all kinds of reasons. However, there is more to communication than just telling others what we want. Sam the Speechie can help you or your child develop skills to communicate socially, and to build and maintain friendships.
Reading, spelling, and writing is important. It does not need to be boring and difficult. Sam the Speechie can help you to improve your skills at reading, spelling, and writing.
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