Language Development in Bilingual Children
The ability to regulate our emotions are an essential skill that contribute to a child’s wellbeing. They are important for coping with challenges, building healthy relationships, and building long-term success. Parents can play an important role in fostering emotion regulation skills in their children.
Help your child build emotional literacy skills
Supporting Emotion Regulation Skills at Home
The ability to regulate our emotions are an essential skill that contribute to a child’s wellbeing. They are important for coping with challenges, building healthy relationships, and building long-term success. Parents can play an important role in fostering emotion regulation skills in their children. Help your child build emotional literacy skills Support your child to […]
Our Sensory Systems!
As an OT student, my day at DSKC can consist of many different activities such as planning sessions, running through some activities/interventions, making resources for the clinic and asking endless questions to my wonderful supervisor, Shannon.
In my time here I have been able to work on my clinical reasoning skills and my note-taking ability. It has also allowed me to improve my communication between clients and their families, all with the guidance of Shannon.
Importance of Play, and the Developmental Milestones!
Play for children isn’t a simple pass time, but an important part of their physical, emotional, and cognitive development. It allows them to develop skills about cause and effect, builds on social skills, confidence, creativity, coordination and balance, and allows them to explore feelings and emotions as well as build resistance and coping strategies for […]
A Language Rich Environment
You may ask yourself, “Well, what does it mean to create an environment that is rich in language?”. Let us unpack this with another question. What is language? Language is more than words. It is a socially shared system that goes beyond words. It is adaptive, generative, and multimodal. Think about it. If you were to search “new […]
A day in the life: Speech Pathologist working at De Silva Kids Clinic
As a new Speech Pathologist working at De Silva Kids Clinic, I have come to realise that this is the true definition of a supportive and welcoming work environment and team. Working at DSKC has shown me that this is the place where you thrive and build your learning skills on a daily basis, with […]
Tongue-tie; The impact on feeding and speech
What is a tongue-tie? A tongue-tie is a condition that is present at birth. It looks like a short, tight, and thick tissue that is called a lingual frenulum. This tissue is found at the bottom of the tongue, that can make it hard for the tongue to move freely. Causes Typically, the tissue separates […]
A day in the life of a student Speech Pathologist at DSKC!
My name is Katy, and I am currently in my first year of my Masters of Speech Pathology degree, and this is a day in my life as a student Speech Pathologist at De Silva Kids Clinic! My role as a student speechie includes creating session plans for my assigned clients and debriefing them with […]
A day in the life of a Speech Student, on Placement at DSKC!
My name is Janice, and I am currently in the first year of my Master of Speech Pathology degree, and this is a day in my life as a student Speech Pathologist at De Silva Kids Clinic! As a student speechie, my role includes generating session plans, running sessions, and providing feedback to my assigned […]
The Lidcombe Program – for Children who stutter
Who is this treatment for? This treatment is designed for children 6 years and younger who stutter. The children who participate in this program can have all different levels of severity for their stutter, as this does not impact the effectiveness of the treatment. It may be suitable for some older children and your trained […]