About Us
Therapy is provided to individuals and their families and carers to better understand and nurture the individual's abilities and strengths.
Julia the director of The Speech Arena, is a child or client and family-centred certified practising Speech Pathologist registered with Speech Pathology Australia.
She completed her studies at Flinders University following her long career as a Dental Hygienist and Practice Manager.
When working with children of all ages, she provides engaging and effective play-based services. With a dedication to empowering her clients to express their needs to the best of their abilities, Julia offers family and client-centred support in a positive and strengths-based environment, making therapy a fun and interactive experience.
Recognising the significance of consistent practice, Julia seamlessly integrates home activities into everyday life situations, acknowledging the challenges of busy lifestyles for parents and caregivers. Her approach combines expertise in speech pathology with a commitment to fostering communication skills in a supportive and enjoyable manner.
She has effectively harnessed the professional skills established through her extensive prior career background as a Dental Hygienist into her professional practice, building on those skills, particularly with speech sound disorders, communication and swallowing and parafunctional difficulties.
In harnessing those skills she has become one of the only Speech pathologists with a background in dental hygiene, to offer tongue thrust swallow and orofacial myology assessment and therapy. A unique difference in understanding of 2 perspectives of management in this area.
Julia is highly motivated with experience in a range of public, non-profit, and private settings and is committed to improving the lives of her clients with communication, feeding, and swallowing difficulties and provides holistic evidence-based practice.
She continues to build on her knowledge and has completed additional studies including:
- Certificate in Oro Facial Myology from The Australian Academy of Orofacial Myology
- "Sounds - Write" reading and writing program
- Hanen's "It Takes Two to Talk" for late talkers
- SOS When children won't eat - Picky eaters versus problem feeders.
- Tongue tie and tethered oral Tissue, and tongue thrust swallow therapy
- Evidence-based management of phonological impairment in children presented by Elise Baker,
- SA Health's Dysphagia Competency,
- Traffic Jam in my brain
- Certificate 1 & 2 in Auslan
- DIR Floortime introduction
With Memberships including:
- Speech Pathology Australia
- Australian Academy of Oromyology
- AGOSCI for AAC users
