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create sentences that contain elements such as “who” or
“what doing?”
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8 Allied health assistants
Utilising allied health assistants (AHAs) can help to achieve
excellent therapy outcomes and improve service efficiency.
Maroondah Hospital Community Health Speech Pathology
is fortunate enough to have a part-time AHA who assists
resource creation, runs speech and language therapy
groups, and participates in quality improvement projects.
This results in a more effective and efficient service, which is
able to assist a greater number of patients.
9 Parent training
Providing specific and comprehensive parent training and
support with home programs is a large part of the speech
pathology service at the Maroondah Hospital Community
Health Speech Pathology department. When trained,
supported and directed by a speech pathologist, parents of
children receiving speech therapy can be very effective in
administering most treatments (Cirrin et al., 2010). At
Maroondah, group-based interventions targeting language
and speech skills always incorporate a parent training
element, with parents attending all sessions.
10 Colourful Semantics
There is a growing body of evidence to support the use of
Colourful Semantics with children who have expressive
language difficulties (Bolderson, Dosanjh, Milligan, Pring &
Chlat, 2011). Created by speech and language therapist
Alison Bryan in the United Kingdom, the approach has
been utilised and described in Victoria by Andrea Hewett,
speech pathologist, as well as the Catholic Education
Office, Archdiocese of Melbourne. Utilising colour-coded
words and pictures, children are taught to understand and
Correspondence to:
Amy Rynsent
Senior Speech Pathologist/Team Co-ordinator
Eastern Health Community Health Paediatric Speech Pathology Service
8 Grey Street, Ringwood East, Vic. 3135
phone: +61 (0)3 9871 3599
email:
