Our Speech Pathology fee is 193.99 per hour.
ALL appointments have a 15 minute indirect support charge which covers some of the set up, clean up and note writing.
eg
45 minute appointment =193.99
60 minute appointment = 242.4
We do not offer 30 minute appointments as a rule as they make it very hard to get the amount of practise required to make change.
Our allied health assistant program is an hour of AHA time (45 minutes direct and 15 indirect) Plus 5 minutes discussion with the SLP. It totals $102.95 per hour.
Home visits by the AHA are available but travel is billed at the 86.79 per hour AHA rate for actual minutes travelled.
Our private tutoring is $95 per hour.
This is an extremely difficult question. Even children who appear the same may have different responses to support depending on internal and external factors.
Simple speech skills can often be fixed in a single block, complex speech, language, and other support will often take longer. We try to focus on 1-3 goals per block, and often we can achieve all three goals in the block. This will be discussed with you at the first session each term.
Also, as your child changes and grows the goals that you have may change. It is ok (and often beneficial) to take a break for a term and see change consolidate after that time.
We strongly encourage weekly sessions with a break, rather than fortnightly sessions. These seems to have more success and more frequent check in can help parents feel sure of their follow up.
Late talkers are at risk of a range of language related difficulties as they grow.
They are more likely to have speech sound disorders, literacy difficulty and ongoing language concerns into adulthood.
If you are concerned that your child isn’t talking yet, please, start with contacting a speech pathologist.
Therapy for late talkers starts with a focus on building the skills of adults and other children in the family to encourage and support language growth.
NDIS
If your child is over 7, they must have an approved disability and/or show significant impact of their disability in multiple areas and across situations to be eligible for NDIS. To our great frustration, although DLD has been acknowledged by the world at large as a permanent disability that affects all areas of life, it has not been added to the NDIS approved list. We will happily support applications for funding though approvals for DLD seem to only occasionally be approved.
If your child is under 7, They may be eligible for Early Intervention funding If they
* have a permanent disability OR developmental delay that affects their daily life in more than one domain.
* Developmental delay means that the child is delayed in meeting their milestones in more than one area (eg language, social emotional regulation, fine or gross motor, hearing issues) by at least 6 months.
Your child health nurse or GP should be able to help you with milestone checks.
Otherwise the peak bodies for SLP, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy and Psychology will often have developmental milestone pages.
Medicare
Your GP might support you with a Team Care plan, if they are concerned and want more information. This may include referral to multiple allied health supports or one. The Medicare rebate is approximately $56 per session, for a maximum of 5 session, giving you a discount of almost $300 over the block.
Private Health
Some private health funds cover a portion of speech therapy. I have seen rebates anywhere between $30 and $100 depending on the fund and plan. We have a hicaps machine so you can claim on the spot and just pay the gap.
Think Play Say is inside the Centrepark arcade, on Currie St in Nambour.
The address is 9/70 Currie St Nambour 4560
At this point the SLP is only in clinic.
However, our AHA Chrissie is able to visit your child at daycare, home or school in between clinic visits.
This is dependant on the school/daycare agreeing, and travel fees apply
No, In Australia you do not need a referral to see a speech pathologist. Many parents ring direct.
CPSP means certified practising speech pathologist. To be a CPSP you have to have completed a recognised speech pathology degree (minimum of 4 years) and be a member of Speech Pathology Australia (SPA) and complete a minimum of 20 hours of continued professional learning per year. We generally do a lot more than the required hours.
Being a CPSP also means we abide by the SPA code of conduct, privacy, clinical and ethics guidelines including service provision and advertising. That’s why you never see client testimonials on a SLP page, as they are against our advertising standards.