https://www.seedtosprout.com.au/blog daily 0.75 2022-04-04 https://www.seedtosprout.com.au/blog/how-speech-pathology-can-support-transgender-communities monthly 0.5 2022-04-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8f04d49432801293f57d45/1649035344447-VZ4JXHH2JJWMWR4U85XQ/unsplash-image-Gpj0mIN1KvQ.jpg Blog - How Speech Pathology can support Transgender communities - Make it stand out Our voice and how we use it is often considered as one of the key ways that we communicate to the world who we are. Communication is part of who we are, how we represent ourselves, and what we reveal about ourselves to the word. As speech pathologists we’re specially trained to support people to access and align communication in ways that support them to be a part of the community and their world. For our friends who identify as being a part of the transgender community, we understand that at varied stages across your transition you may not feel like your voice and communication represents who you know you are. As a speech pathologist we want to be able to help you find the voice, the gestures, the communication styles that represent who you are. This aspect of speech pathology is where Gender Affirming Voice and Communication Training (also known as Transgender Voice and Communication Training) comes in. Who is able to engage in Gender Affirming Voice and Communication Training? Anyone who doesn’t feel as though their voice and communication style represents them in their identified gender, regardless of what stage of transition you are presently in. What is involved in Gender Affirming Voice and Communication Training? Ways that we support overall voice and communication training includes: supporting how to use and adapt your voice in a healthy way to best represent who you are. This includes supporting changes in your voice’ tone, volume, and vocal qualities to what is desired. support in adapting language and pragmatics (how we use words) to how you are most comfortable non-verbal communication to best help a person communicate using body language and gesture in a way that aligns with who they are. What can you expect at the start? One of the most important things to us is making sure that what we’re working on with you aligns with what your goals are and will be designed specifically with those in mind. As a part of this we start with working with you on: Vocal and communication models – what sort of vocal qualities do you find appealing and would you like to have elements of? Understand what your voice and communication mean to you and your everyday life. Vocal evaluation – to help us know where your voice is now and help us design therapy to work towards where you want to be Identifying your goals – this is about you and we want to ensure what we’re doing aligns with the best representation of who you are. Supporting you with vocal hygiene to ensure throughout this entire process and beyond we’re keeping your voice healthy and strong! https://www.seedtosprout.com.au/blog/why-we-play-in-speech-therapy monthly 0.5 2022-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8f04d49432801293f57d45/23ab49fc-b73f-47d8-a481-89f9516c3dff/pexels-yan-krukov-8612923.jpg Blog - Why we play in speech therapy - Make it stand out Photo by Yan Krukov from Pexels https://www.seedtosprout.com.au/blog/starting-school-in-2022-last-minute-tips-to-help-your-child-be-ready monthly 0.5 2022-02-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8f04d49432801293f57d45/1643757792260-P5SYL2VEI4ULQMXHY2CD/unsplash-image-GDokEYnOfnE.jpg Blog - Starting school in 2022 – Last minute tips to help your child be ready! - Make it stand out What a milestone! Your little one is ready to start Prep in less than a week. I hope you are excited and that they are excited too. Whether this is your first child starting school or if you’ve got others already in school, here are a few tips that you can do over the next week to help them (and yourself) be ready for their first day. Talk to them Set some time aside this week, where you can give them undivided attention and talk about school. Talk about what their first day or first few hours might look like. See if they know how drop off and pick up will work. If you know their teacher, talk to them about them, teach them their teacher’s name. Have you given them some time to ask you questions about what school might be like, who they might see there and what sort of activities they might get up to? Show them Have you got a bit of free time this week or over the weekend? Why not do a drive by or better yet park where you might park and do a practice run of drop off or pick up. Why not give them a go on the playground and an individual tour of their school grounds. This can be a great way of introducing them to their soon-to-be new environment. Show them where they might put their bag, where the toilets are, where they can go to fill up their water bottles. Why not even play a game of hide and seek, tiggy or i-spy and see what things they can find. Turning it into a game can make it fun for everyone – maybe their siblings would enjoy showing them around too! A practice run Have you been able to plan out what a school day (at home and at school) would look like? Maybe in the last few days of this week you could practice them getting up, having breakfast, putting their uniform on and getting their bag packed ready for the day. Could you go beyond that and demonstrate how morning tea and lunch time happens at school, maybe you could all have lunch from a lunch box and see how they go. All of these ideas can help reduce possible anxious thoughts about what school might be like and can help start to establish familiarity for your little one. What about me? We cannot forget about you, as their parent/s this is a milestone for you too! Well done! How are you feeling now that their first day is just around the corner? Many parents have many different emotions as the day gets closer. You might feel anxious, apprehensive, sad, happy, excited or a mixture of these emotions – all of which are okay! Go easy on yourself and if you need some support, reach out to someone you know who might be feeling the same or maybe someone you know who has been through this before. When day 1 is here, try to be organised and relaxed. This can help your child feel ready and calm too. 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