Our school and preschool support

Our mission is to provide quality, personalised intervention to support all aspects of communication and feeding through holistic thinking and a client centred approach, always.

This can look different for different people, and we are able to customise our service provision to suit your needs.

Funding and grants may be available to you, to access support. While we aren’t able to ensure the outcome of any funding applications, we have our fingers crossed for you! See education.nsw.gov.au for more information.

Please see the attached information regarding options, and get in touch to chat about how we can best support you and your needs.

Educator Coaching

½ day observation per room and planning with room leader.
2 follow up observations. ½ day per room with problem solving around trialed strategies
Planning session for ongoing implementation with room leader.
4 x 3-hour onsite visits (total 12 hours speech pathologist’s time)
Completed over 8 weeks.

$2,580 + GST + travel
Customised Visual Communication Supports
1:1 planning session with Speech Pathologist to plan for visuals that will provide the biggest impact for children who;
- Have difficulty understanding.
- Are reluctant to speak early in the year.
- Are hard to understand.
- Have English as a second language.
- Tune out of group instructions.
A phone consultation, resource creation and delivery.
$1,300 + GST
Topic Specific Workshops
All workshops have practical aspects and opportunities to discuss and make plans for specific situations within your service.

90 minute standard training delivered to educators online.
Discounts available for multiple workshop packages.
Start with our “Communication Basics” workshop, then build your team’s skills with the following workshops in any order:
- “Visual Supports”
- “Embedding Key Word Sign”
- “Neurodivergent Communication”
- And more tailored topics to suit your service
1 workshop for $700
2 workshops for $1400
3 Workshops for $2000
$700 + GST (per workshop)
Speech Sound Program

Screening and speech program facilitated by preschool educator.
Speech screening by speech pathologist for 20 children.
Individualised program created for 10 children
1:1 educator training to provide program.
Weekly supervision and joint planning with educator

$8,421 + GST + travel
Language and Pre-literacy Activity Database.

Practical small-group activities for educators to build children's language and pre-literacy skills with a range of support options.
This support is via telehealth.

$2,520 + GST

**Please note, travel is charged at the hourly rate of $215 per hour, with an additional fee of $1.05 per kilometre (as per the HPSS Award).

Any additional time (e.g. stakeholder meetings/ family feedback sessions) will be charged at our hourly rate of $215, and is additional to the above totals.

These fees are reflective of your clinician's time and effort invested in the support of our clients. They reflect not only the time spent directly with the client, but also their clinical knowledge, preparation, planning and analysis of the client's skills and progress.

Invoices will be sent each week of term, with work such as reports completed in school holidays included in the invoice of the first week of the following term.

Contact Us

If you have any questions at all, or would like to chat through the best option for you, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

Phone: 02 8314 5814

Email: hello@gidgeespeech.com.au