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Conversation maintenance is one of those skills that looks effortless when it clicks, but takes real scaffolding for many children to develop. As…

Providing thoughtful feedback to graduate student clinicians is one of the most rewarding parts of working as a clinical educator. Speech-language pathologists…

Syllable reduction is a common phonological process in early speech development, where toddlers simplify multisyllabic words by deleting weak syllables. A…

A speech therapy room should help children feel safe enough to listen, communicate, play and practise new skills. When the environment is too bright, noisy or…

When a speech-language pathologist and an occupational therapist share a session, children often respond with more engagement than they do in back-to-back…

Minimal pairs are two words that differ by just one speech sound, such as "ship" and "chip" or "key" and "tea". They sit at the heart of phonological therapy…

An articulation assessment can produce a page full of scores, symbols and clinical terms. For parents, the important issue is usually much simpler: what do…

There's a particular kind of organised chaos that unfolds when you're running a small group speech therapy session. Three children, four visual prompts, and a…

When a child learns to speak up for what they need, the impact ripples far beyond the therapy room. Self-advocacy gives students the confidence to request…

Four- and five-year-old children in Australian classrooms arrive at Year 1 with vastly different experiences of shared story time. Some have spent years curled…