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Speech Pathology Services in the Northern Beaches
At Enhanced Life Speech Pathology on Sydney’s Northern Beaches, we provide individualised paediatric speech therapy for children, supporting privately funded families and NDIS participants. Using evidence-based practice, our experienced speech pathologists partner with children and their families to build communication, confidence and lifelong skills. Therapy is delivered within each child’s goal environment (at home, school or in the community) so strategies are practical, meaningful and naturally integrated into everyday life.
Speech Pathology Services
Enhanced Life Health Services provides mobile paediatric Speech Pathology across Sydney’s Northern Beaches and North Shore, supporting children and young people to build their communication, confidence and participation in the everyday environments where life happens.
Our experienced Speech Pathology team works alongside children, families, educators and other members of their support team to provide individualised, evidence-based support across areas including speech, language, social communication, literacy, fluency, AAC and feeding.
As a mobile paediatric service, we provide support within your child’s home, school, preschool and community, allowing therapy strategies to be practical, meaningful and embedded into their everyday routines and relationships.
Rare Speech Pathology availability is currently available. With limited appointments open across our Northern Beaches and North Shore service areas, now is a great time to enquire if your family has been looking for experienced paediatric Speech Pathology support.
Complete our quick intake form today and our administration team will be in touch to learn more about your child and discuss available appointment options.
How We Support You
Speech Therapy services include:
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Speech Pathology assessment
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School-based therapy
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Home-based therapy
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School and home consults
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Small group therapy programs
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School holiday booster and intensive sessions
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Parent coaching
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Preschool parent workshops
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Educator training and consultation
Services can be provided under
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National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)
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Medicare Chronic Disease Management Plan
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Allied Health Service Under Medicare Scheme
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Private Health Insurance
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Self-funded
The Purpose of Speech Pathology Intervention
To support the identified family-centred goals for your child and coach the important people involved in their life, including parents, caregivers, educators, and other members of their multidisciplinary team.
Our speech pathology intervention aims to:
• Support the child’s communication and language development
• Improve participation and function in everyday activities
• Support speech clarity and fluency
• Develop social communication and interaction skills
• Support literacy, reading, and comprehension
• Build communication confidence and self-advocacy
• Support positive relationships and meaningful connections
• Promote greater independence and participation across everyday environments
Some of the Intervention we Provide Includes:
• Home visits
• School and early learning visits
• Community-based sessions
• Telehealth sessions
• Parent/carer and educator support
• Group therapy sessions
• Supporting everyday activities such as social skills groups, community participation & play groups
How We Support You
Speech Pathology services include:
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School-based therapy
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Home-based therapy
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Speech Pathology assessments & reports
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School and home consults
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Small group therapy programs
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School holiday booster and intensive sessions
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Child-parent/family engagement
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Playful Partner Support (children)
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Communication Partner Support (teens and young people)
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Preschool parent workshops
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Educator training and consultation
Our Speech Pathology Approach Focusses On:
Neuro-Affirming Social Communication
Our speech pathology team support children and young people to develop communication and social interaction skills in ways that feel natural, comfortable, and authentic to them. They take a neuro-affirming and strengths-based approach that recognises and respects neurodiversity, including autism, ADHD, and sensory differences.
Our speech pathology team provide personalised strategies to support communication, social confidence, self-advocacy, and meaningful relationships across home, school, and community settings.
Our goal is to support confident, authentic communication, meaningful connections, and a strong sense of belonging and wellbeing
Speech Sounds and Speech Clarity
Our speech pathology team support children and young adults who may have difficulty producing speech sounds or being easily understood by others. We provide personalised and engaging therapy to support clearer speech, communication confidence, and participation in everyday life.
Therapy is tailored to each individual’s age, strengths, needs, and goals, with a focus on helping them communicate comfortably, confidently, and effectively in ways that are meaningful to them.
Our goal is to support clear and confident communication, reduce barriers to being understood, and help children and young adults participate more fully in everyday conversations, relationships, learning, and community life.
Fluency (including stuttering)
Our speech pathologist supports children and young adults who experience differences in the way they speak, including stuttering.
Therapy focuses on building communication confidence, reducing the impact of speaking difficulties, and developing strategies that support comfortable and effective communication.
Support is personalised to each individual’s needs, strengths, and goals, with a focus on helping them communicate confidently and participate in the situations that are important to them.
Our goal is to support confident and comfortable communication, reduce the impact of fluency difficulties, and help children and young adults participate more fully in conversations, relationships, learning, and everyday life.
Literacy and Reading Comprehension
Our speech pathologist supports children and young adults to develop the foundational language and literacy skills needed for reading, spelling, and understanding written information. Therapy incorporates structured, explicit, and systematic teaching of phonological awareness, sounds, letters, decoding, spelling, and reading comprehension.
Our approach is informed by structured literacy principles and adapted from approaches such as Orton-Gillingham and Sound Waves, with therapy tailored to each individual’s strengths, learning needs, and goals.
Our goal is to support confident and capable readers and writers, strengthen understanding of written information, and help children and young adults participate more independently at school, work, and everyday life.
Play, Language and Communication
Our speech pathologist supports young children to develop communication, language, and social interaction skills through play and meaningful everyday experiences. Therapy is child-led, engaging, and tailored to each child’s interests, strengths, developmental stage, and communication needs.
Our approach is informed by developmental and relationship-based principles, using natural opportunities within play and everyday interactions to support communication, connection, and learning.
Our goal is to support confident communication, meaningful connection, and positive participation in play and everyday interactions, while helping young children build the skills they need to connect, learn, and express themselves..
Playful/ Communication Partner Support
Child-parent/family engagement
Our speech pathologist supports parents and families to build their child’s communication and connection through play and everyday interactions. We provide practical, personalised strategies that help families recognise communication opportunities, follow their child’s interests, and create enjoyable moments for interaction and learning.
Our approach for younger children this will focus more on playful interactions as their Playful Partner, while for teens and young people this will focus more on direct dialogue as their Communication Partner.
Our goal is to build confident communication, meaningful connection, and stronger relationships with your loved ones within everyday family life while being their best communication partner.
Feeding and Mealtime Support
Our speech pathologist supports children and young adults who experience differences in the way they speak, including stuttering.
Therapy focuses on building communication confidence, reducing the impact of speaking difficulties, and developing strategies that support comfortable and effective communication.
Support is personalised to each individual’s needs, strengths, and goals, with a focus on helping them communicate confidently and participate in the situations that are important to them.
Our goal is to support confident and comfortable communication, reduce the impact of fluency difficulties, and help children and young adults participate more fully in conversations, relationships, learning, and everyday life.
Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)
As part of our language and communication therapy, our speech pathologist supports children and young people who use, or may benefit from, Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC).
AAC can provide additional ways to communicate when speech alone does not fully meet a person’s communication needs. Our neuro-affirming approach may incorporate gestures, signs, visuals, communication boards, books, or speech-generating devices and apps to support children and young people to express themselves, connect with others, and participate in everyday life.
Our goal is to support every child and young person to have meaningful and reliable ways to communicate, express themselves, connect with others, and participate more independently in everyday life.
What We Do
The Purpose of Speech Pathology intervention
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To meet goals set by the child and other relevant individuals involved in the child’s life including parents, caregivers, teachers, and other members of their Multidisciplinary Team (including OT's, Physiotherapists, Paediatricians, Psychologists, Chiropractors and more).
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Increase independence at home, school and in their community
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Improve function in key areas
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Improve physical, social, behavioural aspects
Some of the intervention we provide includes:
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Home visits
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School visits
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Community sessions
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Handwriting focused therapy
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Fine motor focused therapy
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Gross motor focused therapy
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Confidence focused therapy
Reports
Reports are written by Speech Pathologists for many reasons including for the purpose of NDIS plan reviews, OT progress report and review, provide a clear description of recommendations for treatment, document a specific challenge or condition and the child's requirements across many environments so that everyone is aware on any adaptations to be made to support this child in accessing and engaging in their occupational activities, tasks and environments.
Our Process
An Speech Pathology process that puts you first enables us to provide the most effective treatment and work collaboratively with you to produce clearly defined goals and interventions.
Assessments
Assessments are a vital stage of our process in order to gather important information and have a baseline of your child's performance. Assessments provided may be both standardised and semi-standardised or non-standardised meaning either formal or non-formal. Some reasons we may conduct assessments include:
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To naturally observe the child in their natural environments whether home, preschool or school
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To identify any challenges or difficulties in a child's speech performance
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To prioritise challenges and difficulties in goals
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To observe social relationships and understand how these impact communication and activity engagement
In our Initial Speech Pathology session we will review a parent/carer questionnaire and get to know your child which will allow us to create a therapy plan in moving forward. Some typical childhood activities include handwriting, dressing, tying shoe laces, fine and gross motor play movements and more. We may even be looking at their general developmental milestones and ensuring they are reaching these goals within reason.
Intervention
The therapeutic intervention stage of the process is one of the most crucial stages within our Speech Pathology process. Our intervention sessions together is where you will see the most improvements made. We develop an speech therapy treatment plan based on our initial assessment and goal planning session together with the aim of achieving the goals made to enhanced the child’s ability to function in their everyday life.
Therapy is hidden through fun! Through fun we see improvements. Our sessions together will be: person-centred - working together as you are the centre of our therapy holistic approach - we look at all areas of occupations and environments and focusing on all can overall improve the targeted goal Motivating therapy - focus and motivation are the keys to beneficial to getting the most out of our sessions together.
We believe it is important to work on your goals in their real environment to ensure the best transferable outcomes. Our sessions are available where appropriate either 1:1 or in a group, at home, in the community, at school.
Refer Your Child For Speech Pathology
Enhanced Life Speech Pathology offers a range of therapy services for children of all ages, with sessions available at your child's preschool or school, at home, in our clinic, or in the community where appropriate.
Register your interest by sending us an email or giving us a call to receive an information pack and find out how we can support your child.
Want to be apart of our Enhanced Life SP Team?
We are constantly seeking exceptional individuals who are eager to join our Enhanced Life Speech Pathology team. We take pride in our mission to empower children to unlock their full potential every day, and we'd like to extend the same opportunity to you.
