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We are a team of experienced, certified-practising speech pathologists based in North Strathfield, in the Inner West of Sydney. We help children and adult clients, and other speech pathologists.

We build on people’s strengths and interests to improve their communication skills, including their speech, language, voice, reading and writing. We also help people who stutter, children with selective mutism, and people who have difficulties communicating in social and professional settings.

Our client services include assessments, and evidence-based treatments and supports for potential communication challenges.

We also help speech pathologists, NDIS providers, teachers and parents to support children and young adults to develop their speech, language, reading, writing, and stuttering with evidence-informed therapy resources, speech pathology business resources, and NDIS templates.

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David Kinnane: Principal Speech Pathologist

David's special interests include helping: clients with developmental language disorder (DLD) or other language difficulties; students with reading and writing challenges (including dyslexia, dysgraphia, and reluctance to write); students and adults who stutter; and working with young adults and adults to pursue their study, professional, and life goals.

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Vivien Wong: Senior Speech Pathologist

Vivien's special interests include supporting bilingual clients and families; working with clients with selective mutism; partnering with young adults to achieve their participation related goals; and supporting professionals to further their professional communication skills.

Juliana Li: Senior Speech Pathologist

Juliana's special interests include neurodiversity-affirming practice with children, teenagers, and adults; supporting oral and written language development; helping clients with severe speech sound disorders; and delivering peer-mediated, computer-game-based communication opportunities for people of all ages to increase their social inclusion.

Sasha Sugita: Senior Speech Pathologist

Sasha’s special interests include supporting adults with communication disorders, including neurodegenerative disorders and acquired brain injuries; providing Lee Silverman Voice Training (LSVT) Loud® treatment to adults with Parkinson's disease and neurological conditions; working with clients with language and literacy difficulties; helping preschoolers be school-ready and providing parent training; and working with clients with complex communication needs by providing individualised, evidence-based practices.

Kara Boye: Speech Pathologist

Kara’s special interests include supporting young children with unclear speech to be better understood; helping children and adults with developmental and other language challenges (including difficulties understanding and using language); supporting children with reading issues and delivering small-group therapy for children of all ages to increase their social inclusion and participation.

Jillian, Sasha and Aidan: Operations

Jillian, Sasha and Aidan are happy to answer your questions about our services and resources, book appointments, provide directions and welcome you to our clinic. They are represented here by Scout, one of our mascots. Like the lyrebird, they are too shy to be photographed, but like to chat.

Our new self-paced writing courses

We help reluctant writers improve their confidence and creativity by teaching them to write well. Introducing our Rally Writers courses – our self-paced writing courses that we call “Cups”.

Start Your Engines: How to Write Simple Sentences

You can’t write a paragraph, report, or story if you can't write a simple sentence! Join our self-paced, no-nonsense bootcamp to learn exactly how to do it!

The FANBOYS Cup: How to Write Compound Sentences

In our self-paced FANBOYS Cup, we teach students of all ages to write compound sentences featuring the coordinating conjunctions “and”, “but”, “or”, “so”, “yet”, “nor”, and “for”: the FANBOYS!

The Complex Sentence Cup: How to Write Complex Sentences

In our self-paced Complex Sentence Cup, we teach students of all ages to write complex sentences featuring the subordinating conjunctions “because”, “if”, “while”, “before”, “after”, “until”, “unless” and “although”.

Download Our Free Communication Essentials Guides

Download our free communication essentials guides for late talkers, speech, language, school readiness, reading, writing, and stuttering.

Late Talkers: Things to Know and What to Do | Banter Speech & Language

My child's speech is unclear: things to know and how to help | Banter Speech & Language

The Lidcombe Program for stuttering: my 10 favourite therapy activities | Banter Speech & Language

Is my preschooler ready for school? Communication skills that lead to success: a free guide for families with preschoolers | Banter Speech & Language

My child struggles to listen and talk: could language therapy help? | Banter Speech & Language

Developmental Language Disorder (DLD): A free guide for families | Banter Speech & Language

Learning to read: what works, and why | Banter Speech & Language

School Writing Difficulties and What to Do About Them | Banter Speech & Language

Stuttering: Things to Know to Manage, then Thrive | Banter Speech & Language

Get Informed!

Free, plain English, evidence-based information, strategies and tips about communication skills for parents, carers, families, and professionals. Read our articles:

“My toddler doesn’t speak at all!” Don’t panic – get informed

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My child’s speech is unclear to adults she doesn’t know. Is that normal for her age? (An important research update about child speech intelligibility norms)

Oral language comprehension: what is it? A plain English explainer

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12 tactics we use to help beginning readers learn to read, with examples of exactly what we do in practice to help at-risk students

Dysgraphia significant difficulties with handwriting spelling andor written expression | Banter Speech & Language

Dysgraphia: significant difficulties with handwriting, spelling, and/or written expression. FAQs on signs, assessment, diagnosis, and support (including resources to help)

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Stuttering: what do we mean by ‘recovery’?

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We’ve designed easy-to-use, practical resources to help speech pathologists support children’s speech, language and reading adventures, with structured tools you can mix and match to pursue their goals and meet their needs. The resources are tried and tested in the real world, with real clients. We use them in our clinic every day. Session planning doesn’t have to be hard. Save time and focus on what matters most – the child you’re helping!