Early Advantage Speech Pathology Townsville in Townsville, Queensland | Speech pathologist

Early Advantage Speech Pathology Townsville

Locality: Townsville, Queensland

Phone: +61 466 501 399

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18.01.2022 Happy birthday to our fabulous Miss Alanah! We hope you had a wonderful day. Lots of love from the Early Advantage Team

11.01.2022 Hi all, We’re closely monitoring the updates around the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. Although for the time being our region is mildly affected, we want to act fast and ensure we’re taking all the precautionary measures to avoid any risks. This is why we’d like you all to pay extra attention and implement the following guidelines: If you or your child is feeling sick, stay at home until you’re completely asymptomatic. Common COVID-19 symptoms are coughing, difficulty breat...hing and fever, but we ask you to exercise caution if you have the slightest symptoms in order to prevent potential infection. If you or your child are diagnosed with COVID-19, please inform us and follow medical advice. You can return to therapy only after you’ve fully recovered, with a doctor’s note confirming your recovery. If you have traveled to any of the high-risk areas (or if you’re currently there), please contact our office as soon as possible. We will ask that you do not return to therapy until the completion of your 14 day self isolation period. This applies even if you didn’t travel, but you live with someone who did travel to a high-risk area recently (e.g. a spouse, a flatmate or a child). Hygiene: We’re already cautious when it comes to office hygiene, but in times like these, we ask you to ensure you follow these official guidelines: * Wash your hands regularly throughout the day for at least 20 seconds at a time. * Use hand sanitizers with at least 60% alcohol * Avoid touching your face especially eyes, nose, and mouth with your hands. * Cover your mouth with your elbow when you cough or sneeze. * Open the windows regularly to ensure regular fresh air flow. THE GOOD NEWS! Beginning this week we will begin our implementation of Telehealth practice via ZOOM. Please contact our office to discuss your child’s suitability for Telehealth and how we can continue to support you through these challenging times. Your health is our top priority, so we will keep an eye on any developments around the coronavirus outbreak and will let you know if there are any extra precautionary measures we all need to apply. There’s no need to panic let’s all contribute to keeping each other safe.

11.01.2022 MATERIAL MONDAY: STICKER BOOKS Considering nearly every child loves stickers we love to use sticker books within our sessions. A sticker book is versatile and can be used to help develop a range of skills. For example, we can work with your child to answer a range of questions and might ask What is the girl doing? We can also work on developing your child’s sentence and word structures such as understanding past tense for example, The girl is jumping vs. The girl jumped... or The girl is sleeping vs. The girl slept. We could also use the sticker book to help develop understanding and use of prepositions, for example we may ask your child Where is the lamp? The lamp is ON the table or Where are the girl’s shoes? The shoes are UNDER the chair. #speechtherapy #stickerbooks #earlyadvantagespeechpathology #townsville

09.01.2022 Wishing Miss Jess a very Happy Birthday !! We hope you enjoy your celebrations Love the Early Advantage Team xx

07.01.2022 Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Just a reminder that the clinic will be closed from midday on Friday 13th December and will re-open on Monday 6th January.

07.01.2022 Happy Birthday to our amazing Miss Mikaela Love the Early Advantage Team !!

06.01.2022 Thank you to Townsville Occupational Therapy Service for our super sweet Christmas gift We are so lucky to work with such a wonderful team of OTs!! Merry Christmas

04.01.2022 Please check out Skye’s story. We know everyone is doing it tough at the moment with all the craziness happening but if anyone is in a position to help I know Skye and her family would be eternally grateful https://www.gofundme.com/f/dx4d7d-20000

04.01.2022 We are hiring! OTs! If you are super keen to work in a small family owned business servicing children and their families in Townsville keep reading! We are a ...small team of occupational therapists who are passionate about helping our clients and their families to engage, participate and achieve. Our service works with clients of all ages and abilities, with a main focus on children aged 0-12. This is a permanent part time position of 16 hours a week, with the opportunity for full time hours as your caseload grows for interested and successful applicants. This is a position most suited for a therapist with experience in paediatrics as you will be required to manage a caseload independently. Regular supervision and professional development is available. Keen to apply: Send in your CV and a covering letter telling us about what makes you passionate about working with children and their families, and how you would enable children and their families to engage, participate and achieve. Send your application to [email protected] Are you the right person? Be a registered occupational therapist with AHPRA Be a member of OT Australia Hold professional indemnity insurance Be able to work autonomously Possess fantastic communication skills Experience working with children You will also require: Drivers licence Current CPR/First aid certificate Current National Police History Check Please share to all of your OTs on Facebook!

02.01.2022 MATERIAL MONDAY: COLOURFUL SEMANTICS Colourful Semantics break down sentences into a number of colour coded sections to match different types of words. WHO - orange, WHAT DOING - yellow, WHAT - green, WHERE - blue.... This helps children organise their sentences into the key stages, develop language and vocabulary skills, increase sentence length and improve story telling skills. View the photos to see how we break down the sentence The girl is sitting on the chair in three key sections. #speechtherapy #colourfulsemantics #earlyadvantagespeechpathology #townsville

02.01.2022 MATERIAL MONDAY: FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS: MULTI-STEP/SEQUENTIAL DIRECTIONS Who doesn’t love when their child is able to follow directions? We love using these within our sessions to help your child follow directions, improve sequencing and auditory memory skills. This learning resource is also accompanied by one of our favourite phrases at the clinic ‘Listen, Say it, Do it’. To help develop multi-step directions we might ask your child to Put the pig in the barn, THEN put the horse on the grass. We can also work on sequential directions and ask, BEFORE you put the pig in the mud, put the cat in the barn. #speechtherapy #followingdirections #earlyadvantagespeechpathology #townsville

02.01.2022 Miss Jess and Miss Mikaela are on their way to Melbourne for the DIR Floortime Workshop! A friendly reminder that the clinic will be closed on Thursday 7th November 2019 and Friday 8th November 2019.

01.01.2022 MATERIAL MONDAY: PUZZLES We LOVE to use puzzles within sessions - there are so many goals we can target! We can work on imitating actions, for example knocking, and producing early words including, ‘knock knock, open, take it out, put it in, close’ as well as animal sounds and names. We can also work on following directions increasing in length such as get the cow or first get the cow, then get the pig. Another way to use puzzles is to help children understand and use ...positional concepts (e.g. in, on, under, next to). We might ask the child to put the butterfly ON the table and then ask, where is the butterfly? to help the child in understanding and using these concepts. #speechtherapy #puzzles #earlyadvantagespeechpathology #townsville