The Nest KZ Speech Magazine - Issue 1

Welcome to THE NEST! When we moved to teletherapy we realised how important it is to stay connected, so, we have created a magazine focused on family fun and keeping healthy. This magazine aims to provide you wit..

2018 Winter Fun

Winter Fun is an intensive program oriented towards the development of language and social skills in pre-school and school aged children. The program will be running as; ALBANY Morning program (9:00 &..

2018 Art Expo

Home! We have been very busy preparing for this year’s KZ Speech Art Show! This year has seen lots of creativity around the theme “Home!” Home is not just..

2018 Autumn Fun

Autumn Fun is an intensive programme oriented towards the development of language and life skills in pre-school and school aged children. Geraldton The program will be running as a Morning program (9:00 ..

OT News - Sibling Group

4th April was the last sibling group in Wongan Hills for the term. These brothers were challenged by Rebecca (OT) (http://www.kzspeech.com.au/team/rebecca-thorpe) and Tayla (Speech) (http://www.kzspeech.co..

2018 KZ Speech Albany has moved!

We are delighted to announce that we have moved offices and will continue providing quality services to children and adults of Albany. Commencing Monday, March 26th, 2018 KZ Speech will be located at; KZ..

OT News - Wonderful Help

Our OT’s have been busy these last few months with the beginning of school, individual session starting and our groups commencing. We have been fortunate enough to have some help from a group of wonderful 2nd y..

Welcome New Staff

Imogen Morgan, Occupational Therapist, commenced working at KZ Speech during term 1, 2018. During this time she has helped KZ Speech complete school screenings at four different primary schools. Additionally, Imogen ..

Nemo

Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls…. It is with great pleasure that KZ Speech officially introduces our latest member of staff. NEMO! Nemo is a 12-week-old Cavoodle (Cavalier King Charles, Poodle cr..

2018 Summer Fun Wrap

Summer Fun’s 2018 – PERTH This year is the second largest “Fun Program” that KZ Speech has ever held (not our intention we might add). Our holiday program was initially designe..

2018 Summer Fun

Summer Fun is an intensive programme oriented towards the development of language and life skills in pre-school and school aged children. The programme will run as; Morning programme (9:00 – 12:00 pm ~ gene..

2017 In A Nutshell

2017 has been an extremely busy year for everyone at KZ Speech. For the first time in our history we have needed to recommend other service providers to new referrals as we were full. Those that know our Practice Man..

OT News - PD Moora

Last week one of our OT’s Rebecca Thorpe (http://www.kzspeech.com.au/team/rebecca-thorpe) and Speech Pathologist Tayla Noble (http://www.kzspeech.com.au/team/tayla-noble) presented a PD to the wonderful..

VR Christmas

So Santa came early for some of the lucky clients of KZ Speech, when they got to be the first to try our NEW VR Headset and Educational Programs. Lots of fun! KZ will be looking at opportuniti..

XMAS Opening Times

KZ Speech closes up between Christmas and New Year. Our last day will be Friday 22nd December and we will re-open Tuesday January 2nd, 2018. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year ..

OT News - Relaxation Zone

This week at KZ Occupational Therapy: With just over one month until Christmas our Occupational Therapists are busy getting their Christmas craft and activities ready. They have some great activities in the makin..

OT News - Disco Laser Lights

This week our Occupational Therapists were very excited with the addition of disco laser lights to Room 7 at the Perth office. This means that we can have sensory cool down times after individual sessions and groups ..

Newsletter

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OT News - November Fun

This Week in OT: This week our OT’s have had fun trialling our new swing in our gross motor room. With the addition of the net swing our OT’s have been able to incorporate more vestibular input into the..

OT News - OT Week

This Week in OT: This Week our OT’s having been celebrating OT week. Our OT’s at KZ Speech work hard all year round to help children and support their families to participate in the activities or "occup..

Mercedes' Road to RDA Nationals

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Spring Fun and Adolescent Group

Thank You Thank You Thank You …to everyone that participated in this year’s Spring Fun and Adolescent Group. For five days, the attendees participated in lots of activates based around Spee..

Spring Fun Cook-Off!

Spring Fun Cook-Off! KZ Speech tradition now dictates that for each fun program run in the school holidays (4 per year), we tend to have participating fun program staff eagerly wanting to compete in the cook-off...

2017 Spring Fun

Spring Fun is an intensive programme oriented towards the development of language and social skills in pre-school and school aged children. The programme will run as; Morning programme (9:00 – 12..

PODD Workshop Albany

PODD Workshop Albany For people with complex communication needs Yvette Theodorsen is a Speech Pathologist and a qualified WA PODD trainer. Yvette has been invited to Albany to present a tailored workshop f..

World Record Champion

We have a "World Record Champion" working at KZ Speech Albany! "Jenny Sammons had a long standing ambition to break the world record for the Women’s Masters Track Cycling 2000m Individual Pursuit (IP) in he..

2017 Winter Fun Albany

Albany Winter Fun for 2017 has finished! Thank you to all the participants for being so good throughout the five days. Thank you to all the staff for making this program another amazing success. It is a real compli..

2017 Winter Fun Perth

Winter Fun Perth 2017 - Pre and Post photo's Our before and after shot this time are a little bit different... I’ll just say that all the Therapists and Therapy Assistants would like to do the Fires and..

SOS (Sequential Oral Sensory)

KZ Speech was fortunate to have had two of its staff; Rebecca Thorpe (Occupational Therapist) and Anastasia Lewis (Speech Pathologist) attend SOS (Sequential Oral Sensory) Approach to Feeding course in Sydney. This c..

2017 Winter Fun

Winter Fun is coming up, so make sure you book your child in! Winter Fun is an intensive program oriented towards the development of language and social skills in pre-school and school aged children. The progra..

Speech Pathology Students
City, University of London

Last year KZ Speech was chosen by Curtin University to trial the placement of Speech Pathology students from City, University of London in a student exchange program between the two Universities. This was deemed a hu..

New KZ Website

On Monday 19th June we launched our new website, and said goodbye to the old style that had been our information hub for many years. Now the challenge for us is to get use to the wonderful things a web site can do ..

Country Clients

Please have a look at the Country Age Pension $500.00 Fuel Card. Click on the “Fuel Card” in our Resources section (/resources) to be taken to the web-site that explains how to obtain one. This card ..

Proud Marnie!

Marnie said that Sophie recently competed in a competition... Take it away Sophie! I recently took part in the Opti-minds nationals challenge in Brisbane where my team won for Social Sciences Division 1. Opti-mi..

Review - Flying Solo through the Spectrum - Wow what a Success!

The opening night saw close to one hundred people attend. Many of the artists that were able to attend were proud to showcase their pieces to their family, caregivers and the public. The official opening speech was g..

Silent Achiever

KZ Speech is a silent achiever and likes to give back to the community when and where it is able too. Over the last few months KZ Speech has been able to secure through the City of Perth a large donation of computer ..

Student Perspectives

Spring Fun – A therapy assistant's perspective Spring fun this year was a rewarding experience for me. It was full of fun and I learnt a lot! As a therapy assistant or a helper, you had one of two jobs. The fi..

Inside and Out

Steve Dyer was not happy! Why you ask? Well because it took us a while to get back to him to so that he could finish inside what he created outside! Again thank you Steve for the effort that you have put into our log..

Flying Solo through the Spectrum

Around two months ago we tried an experiment with one of our Adult groups. Teacher, Art Teacher and Artist, Pam Wilmot (Pam’s “Artist” name) worked with Kathy and the group experimenting with art te..

The Mighty KZ Speech Spitfires

We thought we would try something a little different over summer at KZ Speech. We all work very hard and don’t have that much time to exercise. So we started the KZ Speech Spitfires Mixed Touch Rugby Team! ..