Stuttering involves various behaviours. People who stutter may repeat sounds, words or phrases. They may also stretch out a sound like “sssssnake” or find that words get ‘stuck’ when they are trying to speak. Early intervention for stuttering can help reduce the chances a child continues to stutter when they get older.

Literacy consists of reading and spelling. Literacy is one of the most essential academic and life skills. At Write This Way, we utilise evidence-based systematic synthetic phonics, phonemic awareness and morphology teaching to support children to be independent, successful readers and writers.

For most children, communication follows an expected pattern of development. Imitation, gestures, eye contact and turn taking are essential precursor skills to developing receptive (understanding) and expressive (use of) language. Children learn early language skills and develop their language best through play. At Write This Way, we provide strategies that families can integrate into their daily routine to help make learning functional.

Receptive language is the ability to understand language. Expressive language is the language we are able to produce verbally and non-verbally. Some difficulties in these areas include putting words in the right order, a reduced vocabulary, trouble following directions, and understanding the meaning of words.

Speech sounds follow a clear pattern of development. Most speech sound errors are expected to be resolved before commencing school, however, some children may continue to have speech errors. If you have concerns about your child’s speech, speech pathologists are able to provide an individualised program to support your child.

Write This Way prides itself on being a neuroaffirmative practice. We teach neuroaffirmative social skills to help people be more understanding of others' differences and to help people communicate in a way that is inclusive of everyone.

Alternative augmentative communication (AAC) refers to any method of communication aside from talking verbally. Some children may use AAC to supplement their communication or use it as their main method of communication. All forms of communication are valid communication.