Chatabout Speech Pathology Services in Casula, New South Wales | Speech pathologist

Chatabout Speech Pathology Services

Locality: Casula, New South Wales

Phone: +61 2 9600 7270

Address: 633-639 Hume Hwy Suite 3, Unit 18 2170 Casula, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.chatabout.com.au

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25.01.2022 Today is International Friendship Day!! To celebrate this day, Miss Olivia is helping kids develop their socials skills to support their ability to build meaningful friendships. Be sure to use this day to catch up with your friends (at a safe distance)

25.01.2022 JANUARY 2020 SCHOOL HOLIDAY PROGRAMS Once again, we will be running our popular school holiday social skills (Lego Themed) program as well as our Preschool Language groups. Please see our December Newsletter for further details.

25.01.2022 Its raining, its pouring! What a beautiful sound on the windows at Chatabout this morning. If you are spending a rainy day at home today and are looking for fun ideas to keep your kids entertained, we have just what you need. Take a look at some of our ideas below. Enjoy!

25.01.2022 Say hello to the cutest unofficial member of the Chatabout family See how many animals you can find on your way to our Kemps Creek office!

23.01.2022 What a fabulous year we have had at Chatabout! As the year comes to an end, we would like to thank all of our families for their hard work this year. We hope that you all have a very Merry Christmas and we look forward to seeing you all again next year!

21.01.2022 Happy New Year! Our offices will re-open this Monday 13th January. We look forward to welcoming you all back.

19.01.2022 Appreciation post! This year marks 15 years since Leanne started Chatabout Speech Pathology in a small office above West Ryde train station. It has been 13 years since she hired Skye and they developed a lifelong friendship that has involved working together, travelling together and bringing up children together. The last 18 months, we have faced and embraced more change than ever before. We undertook the daunting task of NDIS certification and verification in order to cont...inue providing the best services we could to our many NDIS families. We relocated our Campsie office to the brand new space at Canterbury (with much better parking!) and at the same time rebranded our look and logo. We completed the much needed refurbishment of our Casula office and we have begun the process of expanding our team to include occupational therapy. We continued to be able to offer support throughout Covid-19 by embracing telehealth and adapting to all the new ways of planning and delievering therapy to our kids. We have been so thankful to our wonderful children and families who have adjusted to this new way of life and are doing their part to keep everyone safe and healthy. Through it all, we have also been so proud of our incredibly positive, passionate and committed therapists and admin team. We cant thank each of you enough and feel privileged to be working alongside you all during these crazy times. We have many more plans up our sleeves and look forward to sharing the journey with you all! Leanne and Skye

19.01.2022 The joke of the week is up at the Kemps Creek office! Can anyone guess the answer?

19.01.2022 Happy Speech Pathology week! This week at Chatabout we are celebrating by promoting 'Communicating with Confidence'! Communication is a basic human right and it's not as easy for many individuals to 'Communicate with Confidence', as it might be for you and I! Speech pathologists work to ensure everyone can communicate with confidence. ... It is important to know: - 1.2 million Australian live with communication disabilities - A communication disability is largely invisible. Often unseen and out of sight. - Communication is more than just speech - More confident communication helps maximise educational, health and social outcomes. If you are interested in finding out more about speech pathology, read more at www.speechpathologyaustralia.org.au

19.01.2022 Next time you hop into our offices make sure you dont forget to leave your guesses in our Easter egg guessing competition. Good luck everyone!

19.01.2022 Resource of the month! All Aboard! Trains and Speech & Language Development As a speech pathologist and a mum, I am consistently looking for ways to encourage speech and... language development through play. One toy that I especially love to use is a train track set! Using trains to encourage and support a childs speech and language development is a great addition to therapy sessions. Plus its super fun! During train play, I target: - Eye contact - Joint attention - Turn taking - Requesting - Labelling (vocabulary) - Basic concepts - Sentence length (MLU), - Questioning skills - Following directions, - Sequencing - Problem solving - Colour and shape identification - Speech sounds (articulation) The first thing I do is grab the box with the trains and track and we begin by taking turns to pull each item out and name it. We also chat about its shape, colour, use etc. Next we assemble the tracks. The exact way I will do this will depend on the childs current level of functioning, language skills, and goals. Generally, I have the child request the items they need to start building the track. This is a great opportunity to work on eye contact and attention and requesting skills. If I was working on an articulation (speech) goal, I may use the set pieces as reinforces for correct responses. Occasionally I use photo cards of the track set pieces for a matching activity also. Further, the photos can be used for grammar, vocabulary and MLU goals. Having the child choose a photo (requesting) using descriptive words (adjectives) and using correct grammar and sentence construction skills its a great way to target multiple goals in the one task. Once the track is built, the child and I will place the different items around it. This generally includes, trees, people, animals, signs and houses/buildings. Sometimes I include a farm animal set to include animal vocabulary. Towards the end of the activity, I allow some time (a few minutes) to just play with the set as a reward. I use this time for modelling language and new vocabulary or articulation goals that I may target in future sessions.

18.01.2022 Miss Anitas joke of the week!

18.01.2022 Today the Chatabout girls are getting silly for a good cause! By supporting Red Nose Day, you can help fund vital research into stillbirth, SIDS and safe sleeping practices. Join us and together we can help stop little lives being cut short this Red Nose Day. To find out more about Red Nose Day or to make a donation please visit https://rednose.org.au/

18.01.2022 Happy Speech Pathology week! This week at Chatabout we are celebrating by promoting Communicating with Confidence! Communication is a basic human right and its not as easy for many individuals to Communicate with Confidence, as it might be for you and I! Speech pathologists work to ensure everyone can communicate with confidence. ... It is important to know: - 1.2 million Australian live with communication disabilities - A communication disability is largely invisible. Often unseen and out of sight. - Communication is more than just speech - More confident communication helps maximise educational, health and social outcomes. If you are interested in finding out more about speech pathology, read more at www.speechpathologyaustralia.org.au

17.01.2022 Congratulations to our West Ryde office on winning our Christmas Decorating competition. Merry Christmas to everyone!Congratulations to our West Ryde office on winning our Christmas Decorating competition. Merry Christmas to everyone!

17.01.2022 The staff at Chatabout would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year! Our closing dates will be from Saturday the 22nd of December 2018 and we will reopen on Monday the 14th of January 2019. We look forward to seeing you all in the new year.

15.01.2022 Happy New Year to all our families! We hope you had a lovely break over the Christmas period and look forward to seeing you all soon.

15.01.2022 Joke of the week! Can anyone guess what the answer may be?

14.01.2022 Riddle of the week! Can anyone guess this tricky one?

13.01.2022 Kemps Creek have their stockings ready to go!

12.01.2022 Update! Please help us keep everyone safe and healthy during this time. If you have been to these areas, please give us a call prior to your session to organise alternative therapy.

12.01.2022 The Chatabout Team had the most amazing night celebrating the great year weve had in 2019!

11.01.2022 Have you seen our December Newsletter yet? If you havent, please find a copy below. Happy Reading :)

11.01.2022 Check out this cute and informative video about hand washing! The World Health Organisation has teamed up with Peppa Pig to help our little ones wash their hands correctly. Be sure to sing along while you wash your hands for 20 seconds. https://youtu.be/zAnSkaPgviY

11.01.2022 Can anyone guess Miss Katherines joke?

11.01.2022 We are open! Our staff have enjoyed a wonderful summer holidays and are excited to welcome all of our clients back for 2020. See you soon.

10.01.2022 Our clinics will be closed for the holidays from Monday 23rd December and will re-open on Monday 13th January, 2020.

09.01.2022 Today is 'R U Ok?' Day. In this current climate it is more important than ever to pay attention to the wellbeing of your family, friends and work colleagues. This year's message is 'There's more to say after R U Ok?'. To find out more information about 'R U Ok?' day, please visit https://www.ruok.org.au/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erHLP29tzPE

07.01.2022 Hi families! Unfortunately it seems like a few of your calls arent getting through to lovely Danni on reception. We apologise if youve had trouble reaching us. Please email us on [email protected] with your return contact number if youd like to speak to someone in the Chatabout team and well get back to you as soon as we can. Thank you for your understanding!

07.01.2022 Come into our Casula office and elf yourself or take a picture with our Chatabout Santa!

07.01.2022 Times nearly up to put your votes in for your favourite decorated clinic space for Christmas! Get voting so the winning clinic can celebrate their victory.

06.01.2022 It was such a lovely afternoon here at our Kemps Creek office! Who else is enjoying this warm weather?

06.01.2022 1 in 20 children are born with a birth defect or genetic disease and more than 160,000 children around the world are diagnosed with cancer every year. Join the Chatabout girls today and unite with Denim!! Support the Childrens Medical Research Institute on Jeans for Genes day by wearing your favourite pair jeans, donating money and/or purchasing merchandise to support genetic research www.jeansforgenes.org.au/get-involved/donate/donation/other

05.01.2022 Danni had us in stitches with this one Post your answers below!

04.01.2022 Today is Stress Down Day!! In this current climate it is important to find a moment to ourselves to unwind and to stay connected to the ones we care about. Join the Chatabout girls today and take a moment to de-stress to support lifeline.org.au.

03.01.2022 Take a stroll through our new beautiful Canterbury office. Let us know what you think!

03.01.2022 The new joke of the week is up at our Kemps Creek clinic! Can anyone guess the answer?

02.01.2022 JANUARY 2020 SCHOOL HOLIDAY PROGRAMS If you are interested in our Lego themed Social Skills group or our School Readiness program, please give our office a call on 96007270 to book a spot! Groups will start running next week.

01.01.2022 Happy Speech Pathology Week!! The theme of this year is Communicating with Confidence - communication is a basic human right that everybody should have. Speech pathologists work to ensure everyone can communicate with confidence, whether that is through verbal expression, gesture or using AAC (augmentative and alternative communication) methods such as an IPAD or Picture Exchange. ... Did you know?: - 1.2 million Australians live with communication disability Communication disability is largely invisible. Unseen and out-of-sight - More confident communication helps maximise educational, health and social outcomes - Communication is more than just speech Get involved with Speech Pathology Week 2019 with some colouring in! Wed love to see photos of the finished products! :)