Speech Pathologist and reading specialist, Vickie Leung, has joined the Kids First Children’s Services team in Sydney’s northern beaches. Vickie is a former director of the Multi-Lit Literacy Centre at Macquarie University and has years of...
A visual schedule is a great way to support your child’s behaviour and social development. This step by step guide from children’s speech therapists at Kids First in Sydney’s northern beaches will show you how to make a visual schedule for your...
Is your son or daughter starting school in 2015? At Kids First, our combined team of teachers, speech pathologists and occupational therapists is helping kids prepare for ‘big school’ with 3 days of learning and fun in January. When your child...
What should a typical preschooler be able to say? Children’s speech therapist, Maja Zubic, from Kids First Children’s Services in Sydney’s northern beaches, provides a brief summary for parents of what is and is not typical as your child’s speech and language...
About 5% of children stutter at some stage and stuttering is about 3 times more common in boys than girls. Studies indicate that about half of these children may recover naturally, but sadly this is not the case for all. Speech Pathologists at Kids First Children’s...
This is one of the best child development explanations you will ever read. Speech pathologists Elise Baker and Natalie Munro from the University of Sydney share how your child’s speech and language could affect their future and why it’s so important for...
