About Jane
I am a certified and practising member of the New Zealand Speech-Language Therapists’ Association (NZSTA), with over 10 years’ clinical experience as a paediatric Speech & Language Therapist. After gaining a BA (Hons) in Linguistics and a PgDip in Speech and Language Therapy, I also completed additional qualifications in paediatric dysphagia (eating and drinking difficulties).
Having worked extensively with children of all ages and with varying conditions (in both NZ and the UK), I use highly specialist skills to assist children with complex needs, acquired brain injury and neurological conditions.
I also have significant experience in providing training to other professionals, including other speech and language therapists and providing clinical supervision and mentorship to other therapists. Now working in private practice, I offer a flexible, evidence based service for families and children with speech, language and communication difficulties.
What to expect
You will be offered a complimentary telephone consultation with me, to discuss the concerns you have and to decide whether a speech and language assessment is required.
An assessment usually consists of a thorough discussion, informal assessment (usually through play) and often a formal, standardized assessment. A typical assessment session takes between 1 hour and 1 hour 30 minutes, before a report is written, identifying your child’s speech and language skills and specific therapy goals.
What next
Therapy sessions may be offered for your child, depending on the results of the assessment. Specific goals will be targeted in therapy sessions, which are aimed to be fun, age appropriate and tailored to your child’s interests. Sessions are typically 45 minutes in length, depending on the age and attention skills of your child and are usually offered weekly. A home programme is usually recommended, with additional ideas and activities to work on at home. This is an important part of therapy.
I currently see children all over the North Shore, Rodney, Hibiscus Coast, Orewa and as far north as Matakana. Typically assessment and therapy occurs at the child’s home, school, kindy or in clinic depending on the age and needs of each child.
Family members are encouraged to attend the sessions (where possible) so that they feel confident in carrying out speech and language therapy programmes at home.
I offer a very friendly and affordable service to ensure as many families as possible can have access to independent speech and language therapy. Therapy sessions are fun and dynamic as children learn best when they are enjoying themselves!
Services
I provide assessment & therapy for the following:
- Language delays & disorders
- Attention & listening difficulties
- Auditory processing difficulties
- Developmental delay & disorders
- Speech disorders – articulation, phonological & motor speech disorders including dyspraxia (Childhood Apraxia of Speech)
- Stuttering (fluency)
- Voice difficulties
- Social communication/pragmatic difficulties including Autism
- Reading & writing difficulties
- Phonological Awareness difficulties
Services
I provide assessment & therapy for the following:
- Language delays & disorders
- Attention & listening difficulties
- Auditory processing difficulties
- Developmental delay & disorders
- Speech disorders – articulation, phonological & motor speech disorders including dyspraxia (Childhood Apraxia of Speech)
- Stuttering (fluency)
- Voice difficulties
- Social communication/pragmatic difficulties including Autism
- Reading & writing difficulties
- Phonological Awareness difficulties
Thank you so much for all the help and advice you have given me over the last 6 months. Our son has thoroughly enjoyed every session with you and the confidence and gains he has made with his talking have been amazing. When he first came to see you (Jane) he only had a handful of words and was struggling to make friends. Our son is now talking in longer sentences and even his kindy teachers can not believe the difference. I really appreciated the effort you went to in order to liaise with his kindy and us as parents. I am so pleased to have found you Jane and I have no hesitations in recommending you to everyone!
Jessica, Red Beach, Hibiscus Coast
It has been a privilege to meet Jane and see her skills at work. After our daughter suffered a brain injury Jane spent over 6 months intensively working with her to regain a variety of communication skills including speaking again. We appreciated her gentle manner and incredible patience with our daughter and ourselves and the way she included us in the process.She is a very positive person who clearly enjoys using her speech/language therapist skills to help those she works with. I would gladly recommend Jane to anyone who is looking for the services of a talented speech / language therapist.
Grateful mother, Takapuna, North Shore
Thank you so much Jane for your assessment of our young son (4yrs). We were very impressed with the way you managed him and kept him focused and motivated to complete each task you had set for him. Your manner with him was the perfect balance of being friendly to make him feel at ease and comfortable with you, and direct so he followed what you needed him to do. He thoroughly enjoyed himself! We were so thrilled when we received your thorough report. This report has been so valuable to us and his Kindy. It has helped us with getting him help going forward, including support from the Ministry of Education. We wouldn’t hesitate to recommend you to any parent who has concerns around their child’s speech and language development. We look forward to you working with us in the future.
Nikki, Torbay, North Shore
