SMART Spot Education & Therapy Services in Lavington, New South Wales | Medical and health

SMART Spot Education & Therapy Services

Locality: Lavington, New South Wales

Phone: +61 2 6081 0547

Address: 2/319 Urana Rd 2641 Lavington, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.smart-spot.com.au

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25.01.2022 The awesome Harry has bought us a book to have at the clinic today! How lucky are we to have such amazing clients! Even cooler though, he is so creative and has been 3D printing these super amazing fidget toys! Check out the dinosaur

25.01.2022 ARE YOU THE SPEECH PATHOLOGIST THAT WE HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR? WE ARE HIRING FOR EARLY 2021! NEW GRADUATES WELCOME TO APPLY!... We are a team of dynamic and responsive Speech Pathologists who absolutely love what we do! This is such a wonderful opportunity for Speech Pathologists who are highly motivated to improve their skills in a supportive learning environment. As a Speech Pathologist at SMART Spot, you will provide person centred, flexible and responsive services that value the important and essential role that families and educators play in all aspects of a child's development. Educators and families are such a critical part of a child's intervention, so we encourage families and educators to work in partnership with our Speech Pathologists to make key decisions about the goals and activities that the child works on to improve their communication skills and activity participation within the curriculum. To ensure your personal and professional growth and also maintenance of a positive team culture, you will be provided with weekly mentoring, fortnightly staff meetings with opportunities to case conference and quarterly full day staff planning days that will always begin with a team wellbeing activity such as yoga, massages etc.

25.01.2022 FRIDAY FUNNY We're bringing just a little joy to your day with Liz and this gorgeous sketch on the front of her mask haha! Who likes her new look?... (Side note, yes we have been wearing the masks at the clinic with the blue side out).

24.01.2022 PREPARING YOUR CHILD FOR THEIR RETURN BACK TO SCHOOL. Check out this free webinar that Positive Partnerships are offering for the families of children who are on the Autism Spectrum.

18.01.2022 WHAT'S HAPPENING WEDNESDAY Rach got prepped yesterday afternoon for a literacy session first thing this morning! Our Speechies are Sounds-Write trained and love delivering synthetic phonics. ... This works to target the word recognition centres of the brain. They also make sure that they target the language comprehension centres of the brain with comprehensive receptive and expressive language development support. You can’t have one without the other when providing high quality literacy support for children!

17.01.2022 Today was the SMART Spot quarterly full day wellbeing day! The team all absolutely love this day! It is an opportunity for Josette and Liz to thank the team for their incredibly hard work and continual dedication and commitment to the families that they work with. ... Today was spent having a sleep in, making bath teas, having a beautiful lunch out and reconnecting to finish the day off with some whipped soap making. Thank you so much to the team at SMART Spot. We cannot express how grateful we are for you all. Josette and Liz.

17.01.2022 Is it just me, or does coffee taste better on a Friday? Thoughts?

15.01.2022 The gorgeous Rach (Speechie @ SMART Spot) has put together a fantastic blog for you all on joint attention. This is a critical skill for young children to establish. https://www.smart-spot.com.au//joint-attention-what-is-it-

14.01.2022 TEACHER TIP TUESDAY Where you're unable to teach face to face due to COVID-19, have a play around with these virtual classrooms on google. They look super epic and you can link your students work to different objects within your classroom. ... Our families and children are absolutely loving them!

14.01.2022 PART TIME SPEECH PATHOLOGY POSITION AVAILABLE! Application date closes on Tuesday Dec 1 at 3pm!

14.01.2022 If you know us, you know We’re a little obsessed with having a beautiful and functional space to work in and have avoided for a long time getting some small tables and chairs for our clients because we really didn’t like the bulky plastic ones So we stumbled across these gorgeous provincial chairs to tie in with all of our interiors and have been waiting for them to arrive for about three months. ... How adorable are they! The gorgeous Kate is slowly unwrapping them. It’s like Christmas here today.

13.01.2022 TEACHER TIP TUESDAY All students are required to learn new vocabulary in the classroom. For students with language difficulties, this can be very difficult. ... Use these tips to help students store and retrieve new vocabulary topics - Link new vocabulary to student’s pre-existing knowledge, so as to increase working memory. Encourage students to enact a variety of strategies when they encounter a word that they do not understand. These strategies may include: looking for synonyms, looking the word up in the dictionary, looking for parts in the word that they already know (e.g. roots/suffixes), orally defining the word, acting out words, using the word in a sentence, and orally teaching the meaning to other students. Include peer modelling in classroom learning. For example, have students who have good answers to questions with detail and a wide range of vocabulary share their work with other students Create a list of vocabulary associated with a new topic. Check student’s understanding of these words by having HIM/HER provide definitions. Limit the amount of new vocabulary given at any one time. Frequently revise and revisit new vocabulary, providing lots of repetitions and examples to cement your student’s understanding of these words.

10.01.2022 The gorgeous Daisy visited the clinic today. She’s one of our amazing families fur babies! And we are obsessed. Daisy you can visit us anytime you like.

07.01.2022 Just a few more days to get your application in Come and the join the awesome team and their fabulous clients at SMART Spot.

06.01.2022 WHAT'S HAPPENING WEDNESDAY Kate prepped an awesome session yesterday working on developing the following speech and language skills: numbers and counting... comprehension of different sentence types days of the week vocabulary support for food She's even colour coordinated herself with the book.

04.01.2022 Words cannot describe the absolute privilege it is to be a speechie supporting our families and children who are affected by communication difficulties. Josette has had the pleasure of working with this family for almost two years now what an amazing journey it has been. Just last week they were tasked with this home schooling activity that they knew would be difficult for their little one to complete independently. ... The commitment, creativity and joy that this family have given their little one throughout his learning journey is just phenomenal. Their growth in understanding how to maximise his learning has also been a pleasure for Josette to be a part of. They have gone ahead and adjusted this work so beautifully, to meet their child exactly where he is at. They have provided visuals, they’ve made it fun and best of all multisensory. this kind of stuff is why we do our jobs!

04.01.2022 WE ARE NOW ALSO LOOKING FOR A PART TIME SPEECH PATHOLOGIST! Choose your hours! We are flexible! ARE YOU THE SPEECH PATHOLOGIST THAT WE HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR?... WE ARE HIRING FOR EARLY 2021! NEW GRADUATES WELCOME TO APPLY! For more information regarding the position and access to an application information pack please visit our website at: https://www.smart-spot.com.au/copy-of-parents-speech-pathol Applications close 3pm Tuesday December 1. Please feel free to also contact the office via phone to introduce yourselves to Josette and/or Liz prior to applying on 60810547.

03.01.2022 WHAT'S HAPPENING WEDNESDAY We have some intensive literacy support happening today! Happy Wednesday everyone!

03.01.2022 TEACHER TIP TUESDAY Reading comprehension How many teachers have students who read fluently but comprehend very little of what they are reading? ... We meet lots of these students, and it is important to note that reading comprehension is not a single skill, but a collection of skills. Some of these skills include: oral vocabulary knowledge discouse and narrative abilities phonology syntax -semantics For many of these students, it is important to target the above skills explicitly in the context of curricular-based language and literacy.

01.01.2022 FRIDAY FUNNY Tan I have a tuptate please Tate? Code for Can I have a cupcake please Kate?... Many of you know we work with children who have lots of phonological processes present in their speech, which affects how intelligible their overall speech is to unfamiliar listeners. A common phonological process that we work on is called ‘fronting.’ Fronting is when the k sound is replaced with a t and the g sound is replaced with a d. The excellent thing about phonological delays is that they are pretty easy to fix with lots of practise in between sessions. PS, how great does Kate look in her birthday gift

01.01.2022 WELCOME TO THE SMART SPOT TEAM! The team at SMART Spot are delighted to announce that Speech Pathologist, Mary Alfred will be joining their team on October 19. They are all so excited for her to start with them. ... Mary brings with her approximately five years of industry experience and a wealth of knowledge of about the provision of high quality speech pathology services in schools. She has a keen interest in language and literacy development, while she thoroughly enjoys working in partnership with educators. Her understanding of the link between oral language and literacy development has helped her to support many teachers in developing high quality literacy lessons for their students. Bring on October 19! Please welcome Mary everyone!