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Kathy Ziatas Speech Pathology

Locality: Perth, Western Australia

Phone: +61 8 9450 6939

Address: 22 Letchworth Centre Avenue, Salter Point, WA, 6152 6152 Perth, WA, Australia

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

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25.01.2022 Hi All, Please be advised that we are currently having a phone issue at KZ Speech. We hope to have this rectified by lunchtime today. We are sorry for any inconvenience that this might be causing. We can be contacted via e-mail on [email protected]... Date: March 12th

25.01.2022 We have had a request for a Social Story about wearing a mask. Please feel free to use with your children.

25.01.2022 Please be advised that Western Power will be performing maintenance in our Salter Point location on Tuesday, December 1st from 8:00am till 4:00pm. As such where applicable our staff have either cancelled scheduled sessions or made other arrangements. Our phones will be diverted to a mobile for the day. Please do leave a message if unanswered.... Our apologies if this has or will cause you any issues. Unfortunately the situation is beyond our control.

25.01.2022 A big Happy Birthday to James! We are not quite sure how Cristina made this happen but we hope that you enjoy and also are able to wish James a Very Happy 26th Birthday!

24.01.2022 Winter Fun - Perth 2018 Parents and Carers: Thank you! Children and Adolescents who participated: You have all been amazing. Thank you!... Staff: We have the best staff. Seriously we do! Now... Before and Afters!!

24.01.2022 Wearing a mask - Complete. Apologies I neglected to add both pages.

24.01.2022 WATCH: A Perth mother has made a desperate plea for thieves to return a beloved therapy dog that was stolen on Saturday night. #TenNews

24.01.2022 Winter Fun - Perth - Cookoff! This years theme is Zoo. Please "LIKE" the picture of the cooking creation you would like to win.... The picture with the most "LIKES" will be the winner as of Monday, July 16th at 5:00pm. Please have all your friends and family vote. The winner will receive a $50.00 i-Tunes voucher.

22.01.2022 Internet Issues! KZ Speech is currently experiencing an internet outage. Our supplier has advised that there is an issue and that they are currently attempting to resolve this. This means that our phones are temporarily out and that we cannot send or receive email messages. ... We are hopeful that this will be resolved shortly. Sorry for any inconvenience.

22.01.2022 KZ Speech COVID-19 Update 2 Over the past two weeks KZ Speech Staff have been very busy offering and then transitioning clients across to tele-services. As we expected one size fits all does not work for everyone. As such our staff have been working out what works best for the individual client and how this new service delivery will best work going forward for them and their families. ... We are now tele-working with clients from Albany, Bakers Hill, Geraldton, Perth, Moora and Wongan Hills. We will also shortly have more clients commencing tele-sessions in other regional centers in Western Australia. Where applicable we have now also commenced running tele-groups.

21.01.2022 Welcome to THE NEST! When we moved to teletherapy we realised how important it is to stay connected, so, we have created a magazine focused on family fun and keeping healthy. This magazine aims to provide you with a break from the hum of daily activities with fun and a bit of information. This issue includes recipes, mindfulness activities and articles from our field journalists. We hope you enjoy!... http://www.kzspeech.com.au//the-nest-kz-speech-magazine-is

20.01.2022 Winter Fun Albany Day 5 Thank you Albany for such an awesome week. We are confident to say that awesome gains were made by every child who attended our Fun. ... Day 5s theme was Knitting and Scarves. We did had back up plans for the shared making station as it was difficult to gauge the interest of the Fun members for knitting. We should have known better, every single child adored the task of helping to knit a scarf and three of them elected to do more in the free time after social group and are now avid knitters. We had lots of fun with this theme including finger knitting, crocheting, French knitting (cup knitting), painting, making a threaded scarf and a crazy obstacle course full of sharks, crocodiles and hot lava. Thanks so much to our Albany Crew, Jane McCallum (Speech Pathologist) and Bonnie Leonhardt (Occupational Therapist) for the awesome help and experience you bring to the job. For the rest of the Travellers (Amy, Chris, Ellen, Lauren, Kathy, Maggie) we are off for a quick bit of tourism and then back to Perth for Mondays start of Winter Fun. Of course these programs would not be achievable without the fantastic support of Mount Lockyer Primary School who have allowed KZ Speech use of the school.

19.01.2022 KZ Speech and COVID-19 Update Dear Clients Over the past 4 to 5 years KZ Speech staff have run tele-sessions with various clients from regional to remote Western Australia, the Northern Territory and overseas. ... Due to current health concerns in Western Australia, KZ Speech are now offering this service to all clients (where applicable and possible). As such, please do discuss this option with your therapist should you be considering temporarily ceasing services or wanting to change how services are delivered. Your Therapist will be able to advise if they believe that tele-services will work for you or your child. We will then be able to show you how this will work in preparation for this type of service delivery. If everything works as we believe it will, your session times at KZ Speech will remain the same.

17.01.2022 Apologies from KZ Speech Perth. We Apologise, Apologise and Apologise again! Even though our team of Therapists grew very quickly last year, we are still a long way away from being able to see everyone on our wait list. ... KZ Speech are currently fully booked for one on one paediatric through to adult clients in Perth for Speech Pathology services and Occupational Therapy services. KZ Speech is currently only accepting clients for group based supports. We are actively seeking to engage more staff. Please do reach out if you are a Speech Pathologist or Occupational Therapist looking for a change.

16.01.2022 Thank you to all Therapists, Staff and Helpers that made the Perth Winter Fun 2020 so fantastic this week!

16.01.2022 Apologies if you had been trying to call or e-mail our office this morning. After numerous attempts at contacting our ISP we were advised that there was a "serious" issue and that the NBN were in the process of fixing this. This has now been resolved and we are back and running at 200%... Please do re-call as we were unable to receive any calls or access any possible messages that you may have left.

15.01.2022 Someone has been told off at KZ Speech....

15.01.2022 COVID Update - 6/1/2021 General: KZ Speech will be open from Monday, February 8th Individual sessions can commence.... Group’s sessions will not start until the week commencing Monday, February 15th. Upon office entry, clients will continue to have their temperatures checked. Upon office entry, clients will continue to use the provided hand sanitiser. If a person (over the age of 12) is not wearing a mask, KZ Speech will be provide one for them (for the week only, commencing Monday, February 8th). KZ Speech Staff: Will be wearing a mask. The mask can be removed if KZ Speech staff are asked by the client, parent or carer. This is at the discretion of KZ Speech staff. If KZ Speech staff are providing services at a school they will wear a mask and will follow the school’s guidelines and requests. Staff travelling across regional boarders: Staff traveling external to the Perth and Peel Region have obtained or are in the process of obtaining approval to travel across regional boarders. Tele-Health: Some KZ Speech staff are choosing to continue doing tele-health only for a further week. You may be asked to do sessions via tele-health as opposed to face-to-face. Please call KZ Speech on 94506939 should you have any queries or concerns.

15.01.2022 NEWS FLASH KZ Speech is closing its doors!! This Sunday, April 7th KZ Speech will be closed for renovations for three weeks. This temporary closure only affects client services at our Letchworth Centre Office. ... We are sorry for the inconvenience that this may cause clients. We have endeavored to do this in the shortest possible time. We can still be contacted via phone on 9450 6939. On a side note we cant wait to pick up a sledgehammer this weekend.!

14.01.2022 Some of our staff de-briefing after Spring Fun Perth on Friday.

14.01.2022 Sorry forgot to let everyone know.. Violin provided!

13.01.2022 KZ SPEECH - LOOK DEEP INTO NATURE AND THEN YOU WILL UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING BETTER The KZ Speech and Occupational Therapy community of young children, teenagers and adults from city and regional areas, have worked individually and in small groups to produce works of art exploring what nature means to them. This annual exhibition is a showcase of the creative talents of these young people. EXHIBITION OPENING... SATURDAY 18 MAY 5.30 - 7.30 PM EXHIBITION RUNS 18 MAY - 1 JUNE 2019 KENT STREET GALLERY Victoria Park Centre for the Arts, 12 Kent Street, East Victoria Park

13.01.2022 Winter Fun Albany Day 4 Today our theme was bikes. We pretty much did everything about bikes but ride them. ... We painted, glued, iced, rolled playdough, made bikes, threw and hit balls, made sentences, sorted mind maps, played hide and seek, walked the plank, and so much more. We are so happy to be working with the children at the Albany Winter Fun. They have an awesome learning capacity. Our work here is great fun and extremely rewarding.

12.01.2022 COVID Update - Sunday, January 31st ** This update applies to KZ Speech Perth and Bunbury. All other KZ Speech locations are operating as per normal. As per Premier McGowan’s announcement today, KZ Speech staff will be canceling all face to face appointments with clients until we are advised otherwise. If you did have a session this week your Therapist will be in contact either by phone or e-mail. Where possible you will be offered a Tele-health session. ... KZ Speech have met via a Tele meeting to ensure that we will be doing our best to support clients during this lockdown period. Please call 94506939 should you have any queries or concerns. If unanswered please do leave a message with your name and a contact number. We will be checking messages on the hour.

12.01.2022 Tee-Ball LIMITED SPACES BlueJays and Dolphins The past five years has seen KZ Speech running two tee-ball teams with the support of the Canning Cougars Tee-Ball Club. This is not a modified competition. The Tee-Ball season runs through school term 4 then breaks for the Christmas holidays and then re-commences in February 2021. ... We are currently seeking some new players as a number of existing players have either graduated into a higher level or are too old to play. If you have a child with autism (low or high functioning) or other developmental needs, is aged between 5-12 and would like to be in one of our teams, then please e-mail [email protected] with the subject line Tee-Ball Team New Player General Information Games are 8:00am till 9:15am on Saturday mornings (Centenary Park in Wilson). Training is 4:30pm on Friday evenings (training ground to be advised).

12.01.2022 Well done Jayden! Prior to WA’s COVID isolation, KZ Speech regular, Jayden Moss competed in the WA State Track and Field Championships on February 22nd. Jayden took out the Silver medal in the Men’s U16 400m, missing out on Gold by .02 of a second, but smashing his previous PB by 2 seconds. His impressive result in the able bodied event is a credit to Jayden and all that he stands for as an Autistic athlete. Jayden would have been in Singapore at this present time, repre...senting WA in an international Little Athletics Championship if not for COVID-19 restrictions. None the less he is currently in training for the 2020/2021 domestic athletics season and thanks to a recent Variety Heart Scholarship, he is working hard towards representing WA in Hobart later this year at the Australian All Schools Championships. Good luck Jayden!

11.01.2022 Winter Fun Albany Day 2 We had a wonderful day today learning with and about dinosaurs. Needless to say the children knew more dinosaur names than us. We made dinosaur hand puppets, biscuits with dinosaur foot prints and played lots of dinosaur games.... The children were all so awesomely wonderful and fun was had by all.

10.01.2022 Winter Fun Albany Day 3 Today was ZOO. We made reverse collages on contact paper with drawings and cut out pictures of zoo animals. We did zoo animal drawings and paintings and made zoo animal cakes. ... We also had a visit from the Albany Reptile Haven Petting Farm. Brothers and sisters of the participants were also invited to come and say hello to all the goats, lambs, rabbit, geese, ducks and chickens. The children have lots of photos to take home to remember the day! Thank you so much to Reptile Haven for your lovely animals and care for the children and staff.

10.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com/events/2107461139353471/?ti=icl

09.01.2022 Winter Fun Wongan Hills Round-Up This week KZ Speech ran its first holiday fun programme in Wongan Hills. Families from Wogan Hills, Moora and surrounding districts came together each day for hours of learning fun. The participating staff were amazed at the change they saw during the programme and to the many new friendships that were made during the weeklong programme. ... Rebecca and Tayla would like to say a special thank you to St John - Ambulance for allowing KZ Speech to use their hall to run the programme, to Heydi and the Wongan Hills Therapy Group and finally to all the parents who helped make the programme a success. We hope to run many more funs in the future. And now the brand new before and afters from Wongan Hills Crew!

09.01.2022 After an invitation a number of years ago, KZ Speech - Albany was fortunate to have had Dr Andrew Savery Developmental Paediatrician come to Albany. Dr Savery spent a day and a half seeing clients at KZ Speechs Albany office in Proudlove Parade. Thank you to Jane McCallum (Speech Pathologist) and Bonnie Leonhardt (Occupational Therapist) for accommodating Dr Savery and Dr Kathy Ziatas (Speech Pathologist) this past week. Andrew and Tanya, we do hope that you have fallen in love with Albany and it's "Wonders" and we hope that you will return in the near future. I am sure that the families that you saw would also like give you a heartfelt thank you for your inaugural trip to The Great Southern!

09.01.2022 KZ Speech COVID-19 - Update 4 We are starting Mini Online Groups! Why?... During this uncertain time children may feel bored, unsettled and perhaps anxious. Our groups are designed to keep your child connected to their KZ Speech friends and peers outside of their family by providing continuity and routine to help them feel safe and calm. Therapists from KZ Speech + OT will be running the groups. There will be a maximum of 4 children per group. When do the groups run? Group 1 - 9:30am to 9:50am - Mon-Fri Group 2 - 12:00noon to 12:20pm - Mon-Fri Group 3 - 2:30pm to 2:50pm - Mon-Fri What will we be doing? Check in with other members; Short activity; and Given a fun task to complete before the next meet up. Who are the groups aimed at? The groups are open to 6-14 year olds. Who can join? Groups are open to our Perth and our many country clients in the Midwest, Wheatbelt and Great Southern. Please call us if you are not currently a client and want to find out more! Interested? Please e-mail [email protected], call the office on 9450 6939 or contact your therapist to express your interest. But wait there is more KZ Speech is currently running structured online social skill groups for adolescents and adults. We are also considering running Mini Online Groups for adolescents and adults. Let us know if you may be interested.

08.01.2022 KZ SPEECH Art Show 2019 We have produced a 3D video walkthrough of this years KZ Speech Art Show for anyone that was unable to attend. Apologies for the quality but we are still learning... Let us know what you think! https://youtu.be/IPY3ezIHss8

08.01.2022 KZ Speech COVID-19 - Update 5 KZ Speech has re-opened our Perth office to re-commence face to face sessions. Until further notice the following procedures will exist at KZ Speech;... Please ring Doorbell and wait for a therapist to see you in. Please do not arrive early for your session as you will not be able to come into the office. Upon entry your temperature will be checked. You will not be admitted if it is high. You will be asked to use the provided hand sanitizer or taken to wash your hands (we will be asking you to do this on exit as well). Your therapist will then take you to the therapy room for your session. Please note that your therapist might end the appointment a little earlier so that they are able to pre-clean the therapy room for the next client. This would have already have happened for your session. You will be charged your normal session rate. Your therapist has the right to refuse entry if they believe they may be in any risk. Please see reception should you have any concerns or queries. Some face to face groups have also re-commenced in a limited capacity. KZ Speech is following Federal and State Health recommendations.

07.01.2022 KZ Speech is back on track! As it turns out we had a faulty part! Thank you Andrew Armstrong from Armstrong Labs (our trusted IT Specialist) for your prompt response! Don't tell him... but Andrew is pretty good at what he does.

07.01.2022 Congratulations Jayden! On Wednesday, March 31st 2021, Jayden Moss was awarded the 2020 Variety Heart Scholarship to pursue Athletics. Jayden is a regular at KZ speech and for the past 12 years he has actively been involved in WA Athletics both locally and at a state level. Since the age of 7 Jayden has won numerous local and state running medals. Jayden's specialties are the 200m, 400m and 3km cross country.... Jayden’s talent and achievements were recognised by Variety - the Children’s Charity WA in 2020 when he was the successful recipient of one of their annual Heart Scholarship Award. Jayden will be working towards representing Western Australia at the 2021 Australian All Schools Championships held in December of this year in the Eastern States. His scholarship will assist with the trip and also Athletics equipment that he will use throughout the year. Even though the awards presentation night was delayed due to COVID-19 last year, we were happy and proud to have been able to celebrate this wonderful achievement with Jayden and his Family.

06.01.2022 Well done Jayden! Prior to WAs COVID isolation, KZ Speech regular, Jayden Moss competed in the WA State Track and Field Championships on February 22nd. Jayden took out the Silver medal in the Mens U16 400m, missing out on Gold by .02 of a second, but smashing his previous PB by 2 seconds. His impressive result in the able bodied event is a credit to Jayden and all that he stands for as an Autistic athlete. Jayden would have been in Singapore at this present time, repre...senting WA in an international Little Athletics Championship if not for COVID-19 restrictions. None the less he is currently in training for the 2020/2021 domestic athletics season and thanks to a recent Variety Heart Scholarship, he is working hard towards representing WA in Hobart later this year at the Australian All Schools Championships. Good luck Jayden!

06.01.2022 Happy Happy Joy Joy!

06.01.2022 Sorry your Royal Highness but our clients do need to be seen! To make life easier for some KZ Speech Geraldton clients, we are spending this public holiday working. In between appointments, we are also finalising materials for our intensive program (Spring Fun Geraldton) which commences tomorrow at the Child and Parent Centre in Rangeway. ... Rebecca, Tayla, Vanessa and Maggie are also travelling up from Perth to have some fun!

05.01.2022 Summer Fun 2020 Albany This past week has seen KZ Speech staff from Albany and Perth meet together to run Summer Fun; our intensive summer holiday program in Albany. Thank you Mt Lockyer Primary School for allowing us to run this program at your school for the sixth year in a row! All of the children worked and played awesomely together with strong changes being made. We would again like to thank parents and carers for entrusting your children with us.... The week also had Speech Pathology and Occupational Therapy students from Curtin University participate. We are very happy to say that many were from Albany. See you in Winter!

05.01.2022 KZ Speech COVID-19 Update 3 OT Telehealth Kits are here! Our Occupational Therapists have been busy making kits for Telehealth sessions. They are for those children who are currently receiving OT services. The kits focus on early fine motor skills for drawing, cutting and making tasks.... We have limited numbers available for a small cost. Please contact your OT if you would like one. Our OTs also have plenty of other activities planned for older children and teenagers (separate to these Telehealth kits). Contact your OT for information about suitability of the kit to meet your childs therapy needs and pick up point, in the next few days. Tel: 9450 6939

04.01.2022 Winter Fun Albany .. and the before and after shots from Albany...

04.01.2022 In todays Mini Online Group we each made ice-cream! Here is a different perspective of what we did today (the other side). This was made at the Childs home in a regional town with instructions from a KZ Speech Occupational Therapist (Alysha) via a tele-session. Other children in the session were from Perth. Thank you to the parent for allowing us to post this.

03.01.2022 Caroline has been busy creating a Social Story to explain what is going on. Please feel free to use this with your children.

03.01.2022 KZ Speech and the COVID-19 Virus Dear clients, In the wake of growing community concerns regarding COVID-19, KZ Speech is doing its best to keep everyone healthy and safe in our workplace while also minimizing disruptions to our daily schedules. ...Continue reading

02.01.2022 KZ Speech COVID-19 - Update 7 KZ Speech would like to thank all current and prospective clients for their understanding and adherence to our current policies. Please be advised that we anticipate maintaining this policy for the foreseeable future. We will also ensure that we follow all Federal and State Government recommendations. Please refer to the previous update 5 for details. KZ Speech Company Update - Staff... This year has seen an extremely high number of people contacting KZ Speech to access services. All existing staff at KZ Speech are either fully booked or have very limited time-slots available. We are employing new staff as quickly as we can while continuing to ensure that we bring the highest quality of service possible. We are currently contacting people on our wait list. We thank you for your patience. KZ Speech Company Update NEW Country Locations Bunbury - Office space is being secured Broome - Work in progress :)

02.01.2022 Winter Holidays were FUN! Perth We have had an awesome set of Winter Funs. Starting with Perth in Week 1 of the school holidays we had a fully booked morning and afternoon programme. Week 2 in Perth then saw staff provide an intensive programme of independent living and social communication for our Young Adult clients. Both programmes were extremely well received by all participants and their Parents and or carers. ... Albany The second week also saw a team of therapists, therapy assistants and assistants travel from Perth to meet up with Jane McCallum (Speech Pathologist) who works at KZ Speech in Albany and Albany based therapy assistants who then ran a fully booked Albany Winter Fun programme at Mount Locker Primary School. Kathy, Emily and Amy were also very busy in the afternoons doing ASD Assessments, NDIS Goalsetting and helping KZ Speech clients prepare for their NDIS planning meetings.

02.01.2022 Spring Fun 2018 ... and just like that the Spring School holidays have finished and with them both the Geraldton and Perth Spring Fun programs. It is again with great pleasure that we would like to thank families and carers for entrusting their children and adolescents with us for the programs. ... I would like to thank all KZ Speech Therapists, Therapy Assistants and other staff that participated in the program. KZ Speech has had a number of parents approach to thank us firstly for the changes that they have seen in their child but to also thank us for the time that they have been able to have with other siblings. This program has again had a child exceed our expectations. To all the staff that worked. Thank you.

02.01.2022 This week - Geraldton and Moora Spring Fun.

01.01.2022 For all Geraldton clients. https://www.facebook.com/events/949892295202274/?ti=icl

01.01.2022 As most of our clients know KZ Speech has a helper that spends a couple of days each week in the office. Nemo the trainee therapy dog occasionally goes home with clients for sleepovers..

01.01.2022 Thank you to the many staff that helped with Summer Fun 2020 in Albany this past week. The program has now been running at Mt Lockyer Primary School (thank you again for allowing KZ Speech to use the school) for the past six years for the Summer and Winter holidays. Strong changes were made for all children attending with some super moments that make doing Summer Fun so worthwhile. Thank you to parents and carers for entrusting us with your children. This year also saw Speech Pathology and Occupational Therapy students from Curtin University come and help. We are very happy to say that many of them are from Albany!!

01.01.2022 Winter Fun - Perth We have been having a great time in Perth with our Winter Fun programs. Three separate morning and afternoon paediatric and adolescent groups are keeping all of our Therapists and Therapy Assistants extremley busy. Tomorrow all attendees and some siblings are looking forward to the Zoo theme and in particular the petting zoo that will be at KZ Speech for a few hours.... Tomorrow also sees the KZ Speech staff cook-off to the theme of Zoo. Photo's will be posted tomorrow for your votes.