Speech pathology for kids, here in Albany Creek.
Jon is our speech pathologist. He sees children, teenagers and adults.
Most of it looks like play.
Jon gets down on the floor with your child. There are picture books, sound cards, puzzles and a few toys that get a lot of use. Your child is working hard without it feeling like work, and you’re sitting right there. We show you what we’re doing and why, so you can keep it going at home between visits.
We also see children where they spend their day. We are passionate about offering mobile services to meet clients in their home, at schools, or at child care centres, where therapy can have the greatest impact.
It might be a late talker. It might be a teenager who stutters.
Some children come to us because the words are slow to arrive. Others are at school and finding speech sounds, reading or writing hard. We also see teenagers and adults who stutter, people with voice problems, and people finding communication hard after a brain injury. Jon sees all of them.
Not sure where your child fits? Ring us and ask.
Jon assesses and treats across all of these.
- Stuttering
- For children, teenagers and adults who stutter, using evidence-based, formally certified approaches: the Lidcombe Program, Palin Parent Child Interaction Therapy, RESTART DCM and speech restructuring.
- Language
- Early intervention and late talkers, vocabulary, following instructions, sentence structure, telling a story, higher level language, pragmatic (social) language, and supporting oral and written language for teenagers.
- Speech sounds
- Articulation, phonological disorders, and motor speech difficulties such as childhood apraxia of speech or dysarthria.
- Literacy
- Individualised reading and writing instruction for students who find them hard, including the Sounds-Write phonics program.
- Voice
- Assessment and treatment of voice disorders across the lifespan.
- Executive functioning
- The foundational skills for learning and memory.
- Neurodiversity affirming practice
- Friendship skills, emotion vocabulary, self awareness and self advocacy, for neurodivergent children and adults, including those with ADHD and autism.
Speech pathologist
This is Jon.
I am a speech language pathologist passionate about helping people to be able to live their lives as fully as possible, through supporting language and communication development. I have had the opportunity to work with both paediatric and adult populations throughout my career in both public and private sectors.
I have a particular interest in providing stuttering intervention for children, teenagers and adults who stutter. I have been trained in several evidence-based approaches for the treatment of stuttering such as speech restructuring, the Lidcombe Program, Palin Parent Child Interaction Therapy, and RESTART DCM.
I completed a Bachelor of Speech Pathology (Honours) through The University of Queensland.
Jon has also trained in
- DIR Floortime
- PODD
- Key Word Sign
- RESTART DCM stuttering training
- Stuttering certification through MedBridge
- Sounds-Write phonics program
- Lidcombe Program
- Palin PCI training for stuttering
- Nuffield Dyspraxia Programme
- Assessment and intervention of speech sound disorders
- Assessing and treating voice disorders across the lifespan
The first visit is mostly about getting comfortable.
Your child gets to meet Jon, see the room and have a play. Jon gets a proper look at how they’re communicating, and you tell him what you’ve noticed at home. Book online, or call the clinic and talk it through with us first. Either way works.
