Speech & Language Therapy Services

Our Services

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Step 1

Contact us via our enquiry form and when we have an appointment available we will call you to discuss your child’s needs and journey thus far.

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Step 2

Attend an initial appointment to meet your speech pathologist and therapy dog.

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Step 3

During the appointment a therapy plan will be made for your child such as further assessment, a block of intervention or if appropriate a block of our therapy express service with one of our therapy assistants.

Scope of Practice

A Speech Pathologist most commonly works in the following areas of development:

Speech
Language
Fluency
Social Communication/Social Skills
Literacy
Feeding/Swallowing
Voice
Alternative Augementative Communication (AAC)

The Speech Express can help when your child:

is late to learn to talk
is distant and hard to engage with
is hard to understand when they talk
is unable to say some sounds that you would expect they should be able to say
is frustrated trying to talk
confuses his/her, he/she and other parts of grammar

repeats a lot of sounds and words when they talk
doesn’t listen to or understand or remember what you say
finds it hard to make friends
is slow to learn to read, write or spell
finds homework harder than expected
is disorganized
doesn’t participate in classroom discussion

Funding

The Speech Express welcomes all clients. You don’t even need a referal to come to see us.
The following funding may be available to you.

NDIS Services

Please kindly note, The Speech Express is not a registered NDIS service provider.

We accept clients who are self managing their NDIS funds.

Are you plan managed?

We would still love to work with you! However, in order to access our amazing, unique and pawesome services there may be an out of pocket expense. Please speak directly to reception for more information

Medicare

Some clients may be eligible for a partial Medicare Rebate for up to 5 sessions per year under the Chronic Disease Management plan. The Medicare website advises this plan is for those with a chronic medical condition defined as:” one that has been, or is likely to be, present for at least 6 months” and “If you need treatment from 2 or more health professionals, your doctor may also put a Team Care Arrangement plan in place for you.”

Please speak to your GP regarding your eligibility for this rebate.

Private Health Funds

Speech Pathology services can be rebated if you have Ancillary cover with your private health fund. Contact your health fund directly to determine the rebate amount and the maximum amount you can claim per person or family in a calendar year. You cannot claim through both Medicare and your Private Health Insurer for the same session.

For details on our current fee structure please contact us directly.

Jump onboard our Therapy Express Service

For so many of our families it can be hard to fit in therapy practice into their busy worlds. Some of our families experience great burnout whilst others just don’t have the networks to fall back on. While for some other families in our community they are struggling to simply get access to any type of speech intervention due to long wait lists and an extreme shortage of speech pathologists. This service has been created to address this issue and to ensure as many families have access to speech pathology support and therapy. The evidence shows us that positive therapy outcomes are strongly linked to quality of home practice. We also know the advantages in practising our new skills in a range of environments and with different people.

The Therapy Express Service allows:

your child to have a fabulous therapy assistant (TA) deliver a therapy plan devised by a speech pathologist (SP) at home or at school. The speech pathologist continues current treatment on alternate weeks or as needed to ensure progress of therapy goals.

Benefits

More cost-effective form of intervention;
Flexibility for therapy sessions to be done at the clients home or school, saving families time in their already busy schedules;
Written therapy plans/goals that are measured and devised by a speech pathologist;
Delivering under the close guidance of a speech pathologist with the TA having regular check-ins to tweak strategies and approaches as required;
Great way for families on wait-lists to begin immediate intervention under the direction of a speech pathologist.