lifelong therapy services provide speech pathology services to both children and adults across the Illawarra and shoalhaven regions and provide Telehealth appointments to individuals across Australia.
Our mission is to empower and support individuals and their families as we work towards achieving their learning goals.
At Lifelong Therapy Services we believe in providing holistic, individualised therapy to each of our clients. We pride ourselves on using family centred practice and working towards not only achieving our goals within the therapy room but in everyday life. We love getting family/carers involved in our therapy sessions to educate and support them to assist the client in their therapy journey.
We offer Speech therapy and literacy support services in the community and over telehealth.
About Us
Lifelong Therapy Services is a private practice based on the beautiful south coast of New South Wales and in Perth, WA.
We offer mobile services across the Illawarra, Shoalhaven and Perth along with Telehealth appointments to individuals across the country. We are currently expanding our team across the west and east coast so please feel free to get in contact and see if we are coming to a town near you.
We believe in the importance of building trusting relationships with both our clients and their families to ensure that the best possible service is provided.
NDIS
Lifelong Therapy Services is a registered NDIS provider.
We provide our services in the setting that best suits our clients, whether it be at home, schools, daycare or the workplace. We work with parents, teachers, carers and any other significant individual in the clients life to help provide the best tools and support.
Services
At Lifelong Therapy Services we work with both adults and children to achieved their goals!
We provide both assessment and treatment to indiviuals seeking our services.
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We have experience working with:
Speech sound delays and disorders
Fluency/stuttering
Play and social skills
Receptive and expressive language skills
Literacy skills
Developmental delay
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
Adult speech and language difficulties including post stroke, traumatic brain injury (TBI), aphasia, dysarthria and dysphagia
Telehealth
Telehealth services allow for individuals to access therapy supports from anywhere across Australia. At Lifelong Therapy Services we can provide both assessment and therapy via Telehealth for those who are unable to access services in their local area or facing restrictions due to COVID-19.
It is an extremley effective way to deliver therapy. At Lifelong Therapy we have seen amazing results from clietns opting for Telehealth services.
WHAT DO I NEED FOR A TELEHEALTH SESSION?
- A laptop/tablet/computer/mobile phone.
- Internet connection.
HOW DOES TELEHEALTH WORK?
Before your session is due to commence we will email you a zoom link. You simply click on this link, allow access to your camera and microphone and then the meeting will commence.
“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
– Benjamin Franklin
Helpful Tips...
Book Share Monday
The Very Hungry Caterpillar has always been a hit in our therapy room!
Whether we are simply targeting vocab (this one is great for learning our fruits and vegentable) or looking at more complex areas of language such as adjectives, temporal concepts or semantics this book has it covered. A perfect story for a book share before bed.
Talking Tuesday
The simple yet effective hierachy we use when wokring on our speech sounds. In the coming weeks we will dive deeper into each step and outline exactly what they entail.
Therapy Thursday
There is nothing better than having a versatile game in your therapy bag!
One of my all time favourites in Shopping List. I picked mine up from Office Works and use it nearly everyday. Whether you are working on semantics, articulation, turn taking, eye contact, vocab or memory Shopping List has you covered.
Fact Friday
Did you know that recent research in Australia indicated that 8.5% of 3 year old children experience stuttering!