Our Speechify team consists of six vibrant, fun, creative and passionate speech pathologists, a therapy assistant, mentor & group leader, admin support personnel, Chief Happiness Officer and a volunteer.

Our philosophy is based on learning while having fun and connecting with others. At Speechify we work with a person’s interests and strengths in order to help them do the best they can. We believe that it is very important for us to make the process of learning as fun and easy to absorb as possible. Nothing motivates learners as much as fun does because it comes from genuine interest from within instead of pressure from others. Students are much more likely to invest extra time in the learning process if they enjoy it.

Our Speech pathologists have training in the areas of:

Together we aim to:

• Use a family-centered approach. We recognise that families are the experts on their child and work with in partnership with you to help your child reach their goals.
• Give you the resources and knowledge so that you can help your child build skills and become more independent. We don’t want you to be coming to therapy forever! We aim to give you the tools so that you know exactly what to do, where to go for support, what you can be doing at home, school or out in the community.
• Develop communication for those clients who are non-verbal or have limited verbal language. We believe in augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) and the doors it can unlock for those clients who are non-verbal or unintelligible in their speech.
• Look at the whole picture. “Kids do well if they can” (Ross Greene, Clinical Psychologist). We aim to help children build on skills they are lacking in order to reduce the challenging behaviours they are experiences at home, school and in the community.
• Support school-leavers in transitioning into life after school. We work closely with job-support. Therapy is provided so that clients can cope with the social, emotional and communication demands of paid employment.
• Help children interact with their peers through play. We can offer therapy during recess and lunch times at school.
• Provide evidence based therapy using the latest tools and resources.
• Our therapists can speak Hindi, Urdu, Nepalese and Cantonese. We have an understanding of bilingualism and language development. Therapy can be conducted in languages mentioned above.
• When working with children with complex needs, we adopt a transdisciplinary approach at Speechify. We work closely with occupational therapists, psychologists, teachers, tutors, music therapists etc. to gain a complete picture of a child. Collaborative information sharing across disciplines helps us to set functional goals that can be generalised across people, activities and settings.