Resources for Parents
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Speech Pathology Australia National peak body for the speech pathology profession in Australia.
American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA) Provide good resource information.
TherapyConnect A tool to help families navigate the therapy pathway for their child with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
SPEECH & LANGUAGE |
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Offers lots of great reference guides to parents on many topics.
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Caroline Bowen's website provides a wealth of knowledge for parents and professionals on all things to do with Children's Communication Difficulties.
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The Hanen Centre is a Canadian not-for-profit charitable organization committed to supporting parents, early childhood educators and speech-language pathologists in their efforts to promote the best possible language, social and literacy skills in young children.
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Key Word Sign Australia |
Key Word Sign is the use of manual signs and natural gesture to support communication.
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LITERACY |
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Let’s Read is a national, evidence-based early literacy initiative that promotes reading with children from birth to five years. Find our how to develop emergent literacy skills, language skills and foster a love of reading from an early age.
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Concerned you're child might have dyslexia? The ADA offers a pre-assessment you can do with your child to see if further full assessment in needed. They will look at your child's results and send you a report summarising the results. A fee is involved.
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Dyslexia quick
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There are a number of dyslexia screeners available online for personal use to help you determine if you and/or your child requires further indepth assessment to determine if they might have dyslexia:
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FEEDING |
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Useful feeding guidelines
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STUTTERING |
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Lidcombe Program A well researched evidence based program for 2-7 year old children who are stuttering.
SALIVA CONTROL |
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Guidelines provided by the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne.
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CLEFT LIP AND PALATE |
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Support and useful information for families
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