Gumnuts
Paediatric Speech Pathology
Mobile Speech Pathology supports for children up to 10 years old in the Bellarine and surrounds
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Mobile Speech Pathology supports for children up to 10 years old in the Bellarine and surrounds ✶
Gumnuts was born from an intention to provide access to quality and caring Speech Pathology supports for children aged up to 10 years and their families.
Gumnuts values collaborative, family and child centred supports aimed to grow your confidence in supporting your child during their early development and foundational years.
About Gumnuts
Our approach
Mobile Supports
At Gumnuts, we believe children thrive when supported in their everyday environments.
That’s why we offer mobile services, bringing our support directly to your child’s home, childcare, kindergarten, school, or community spaces.
For added convenience, we also provide online and phone sessions when needed.
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Collaborative
At Gumnuts, our focus is on building strong partnerships with everyone in your child’s life—family, educators, healthcare providers, and community supports.
By working together as a team, we want your child to receive the most comprehensive and effective care.
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Family and child centred
At Gumnuts, parents and caregivers are key partners in every step of intervention. Your voice and your child’s voice are always prioritised as we work together to set goals and create personalised strategies.
Our aim is for you to feel heard, supported, and empowered to help your child thrive.
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Quality
Our interventions are grounded in principles of Evidence-Based Practices, combining the latest research and proven techniques with your values and priorities, alongside our clinical training and professional experiences.
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Caring
We are committed to providing compassionate, nurturing support where you, your child, and your family feel safe, valued, and understood.
Genuine care is at the centre of everything we do, building trust and fostering positive outcomes. Every step of the way, we want you to feel supported, with your child and family always at the heart of our practice.
Specialty Support Areas
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Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC)
From lite-tech communication boards and visuals through to high-tech speech generating communication systems, Gumnuts is an advocate for access to communication for all and honouring all forms of communication.
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Gestalt Language Processor Learning
An emerging area of practice that Gumnuts is continuing to explore to better identify and support children who use gestalt language processing as part of their language learning profile.
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Navigating Social Communication
Supporting children and their families to navigate and build an awareness of the diversity of communication styles, including neurodivergent and neurotypical. Building your child’s confidence in communicating with others and supporting their self-advocacy in social settings.
Additional Support Areas
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Assessment and intervention support for all types of language learners to help your child express their big ideas.
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Assessment and intervention to support your child’s speech sound development so they can clearly communicate their needs, wants, thoughts and feelings with others.
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Assessment and intervention supports to help your child develop foundations for their reading and writing skills.
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Supporting children and their families to share safe and positive experiences during mealtimes, including supporting children with sensory regulation needs around food and mealtimes.
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Supporting your child to develop their understanding and communication about their emotions, their sensory system and expressing their sensory needs to support their regulation.
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Supporting you to understand and feel confident to advocate for your child and navigate accessing additional support systems such as linking in with additional services, NDIS funding, Kindergarten and childcare support funding, school support funding, accessing respite options and more.
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I’m a big subscriber to the ethos of lifelong learning, and am always looking to explore and extend my knowledge and areas of practice/support! If you have a specific area you would like an SP’s support with that isn’t yet listed, please get in touch to chat!
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