Written by Suzie Garmeister of Branch and Vine Nutrition – Fd. Dip Nutrition & Holistic Health Want to give your kids a healthy lunch at...

Written by Suzie Garmeister of Branch and Vine Nutrition – Fd. Dip Nutrition & Holistic Health Feeling overwhelmed about how to feed your...

‘Help! My child is really hard to understand.’ We hear this sentence a lot as Speech Pathologists. Join us this month as we talk about...

Spring is here and as we welcome the longer days and warmer weather, there seems to be a new energy buzzing as we shake of the winter...

Week 1: Play-Doh Cooking Verbs are words which describe actions, or describe what someone is doing. Words like, ‘run’, ‘push’ and ‘live’....

Week 1 – Laughter is the best medicine Everyone loves a good belly-aching laugh. With the busyness and complexities of family life, it...

Week 1: Skip the Trip to the Shops Children learn language skills by interacting with those familiar to them. One way to encourage such...

Week 1: Look at me when I’m talking! Communication is not only about what is spoken. In fact, more than half of what we communicate is...

Week 1: “You” Messages This month we’re taking some time to think about some of the things that ‘Big People’ say. The reality is, that...

Week One: Label the emotion When our children are young, they only have two ways to express emotions, smiling and crying! As they grow,...

Ready for Reading – Put your feet up and enjoy a book. One of the major ways that children learn is through watching others. They copy...

Week 1: What’s for lunch? Starting preschool can be a stressful time for our youngsters. There is a new routine to adapt to, new faces,...

Week 1: Scavenger Hunts The holidays can be a challenging time. Keeping the children entertained can be exhausting and it can be tempting...

Week 1: Constructive Play Play skills are vital for success at school. Children learn so much about others and how to interact with the...

Week 1: Names When we’re helping our child learn new words and express themselves, names for things (or nouns) are some of the easiest...

Building Theory of Mind Through Books This month our Communication Corner focuses on ‘Theory of Mind’. In a nutshell, this means being...

Week One Winter Warmers: Snuggle with a Book Winter has arrived! Cold weather is the perfect opportunity to snuggle those wriggly...

Week One: Taking Turns in Conversations As we have discussed in previous Communication Corner publications, children learn language...

Week 1. Quality Interactions It makes sense that children need to hear a lot of language before they master using it themselves....

Week 1: Repeat, Repeat, Repeat! Kid’s love doing the same thing over and over and over again. While it can frustrate or bore us as...