Do you have an NDIS plan? Lifestart supports children and young people through tailored Speech Pathology delivered by passionate and qualified experts who have helped countless children and young people reach their full potential.
Does your child need help to:
- communicate with the people in their life
- understand what other people are saying
- participate in literacy activities at home and school like reading, spelling and writing
- interact and engage with those around them
- participate in mealtimes especially with drinking, chewing and swallowing
A speech pathologist can help your child to:
- engage and communicate with important people in their life
- develop their expressive communication skills
- develop their receptive communication skills
- develop language and literacy skills
- have their unique needs met to be more included in school, preschool, work or in the community
- access augmentative and alternative communication methods
- eat and drink safely at mealtimes
Services can be provided at home, at the child’s school or early childhood centre, at one of our Lifestart offices, delivered online, or even in the community (e.g. park or shops).
To help us match you with the right available support, we need you to answer a few questions by filling out the simple web enquiry below. One of our Customer Experience Specialists will match these answers against current availabilities and be in touch.
We work with schools
Lifestart speech pathologists are available to work within schools and early childhood settings to assist with participation and inclusion in routines and classroom activities, communication, speech and language, literacy, and mealtimes.
The Lifestart Difference
We not only work directly with your child or young person to build their skills and confidence, we also work with the important people in your child’s life, such as parents, siblings, educators, coaches and extended family, so that you have the knowledge, skills and confidence to support your child and their development everyday.
Meet some of our passionate therapists!
Nadia
- Holds a Bachelor of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences from Macquarie University, and a Master’s in Speech Pathology from the University of Technology Sydney.
- Experience working with families, providing community and clinic-based supports in various clinical areas, including speech sound disorders, literacy, Alternative Augmentative Communication (AAC) and swallowing.
- Dedicated to fostering a collaborative relationship with families to facilitate them in reaching their highest potential.
- Professional interest include: Early intervention, speech sound disorders and feeding difficulties.
- Outside of work, Nadia enjoys exploring new food spots with family & friends, travelling, and reading across a variety of genres.
- Currently based at Baulkham Hills Clinic.
Tivonee
- Bachelor’s degree in Speech Language Pathology from the University of Sydney.
- Passionate in empowering children, young people and their families to achieve their maximum potential through support and education.
- Focused on creating individualised therapy plans tailored to each child and young person’s strengths allowing them to achieve meaningful and functional goals.
- Professional interest in Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) – everyone has the right to communicate in any way that they can!
- Personal interests include reading books, watching the NRL or Formula 1 and going on new adventures with friends and family!
- Languages: Sinhalese and English
Nikki
- Masters degree in Speech Language Pathology from the University of Sydney.
- Experience providing community and clinic-based supports to children with communication difficulties in areas such as speech, language development, literacy, functional and multi-modal communication.
- Passionate about advocating for every child’s right to communicate in any way they can.
- Focused on working with families to make therapy as functional, strength-based, and fun as possible.
- Professional interest in Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC), early language, and neurodiverse affirming approaches to social communication.
- Outside of work, Nikki enjoys spending time with family, swimming in the ocean, singing in a band and coffee with friends.
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