Therapy4me

Get to know Therapy4me

From Therapy4me's website.

• Our approach

  Therapy4me uses a customised, collaborative approach tailored to each child's individual needs and circumstances. Trained speech language pathologists work closely with your child to assess their ability to speak and understand others, then create a personalised therapy plan targeting their specific speech and language goals. Sessions use techniques and activities aimed at improving overall communication by addressing areas such as expressive and receptive language, articulation, oral motor function, social language, and feeding and swallowing. The clinic emphasises working closely with parents and families to maximise your child's potential, seeing each child as an individual and ensuring therapy is built around their unique situation.

• Working with families

  The clinic emphasises working closely with parents and families as central to therapy, stating they want to work with you as the parent and family to maximise your child's potential. The director is particularly passionate about early intervention and family involvement to maximise therapy outcomes. Therapists support families collaboratively to achieve meaningful, family-centred goals, and the clinic offers flexibility in how parents can engage, including clinic-based sessions, community visits to your home, childcare, kinder or school, and teletherapy options so families can participate from home.

• Meet the team

  The team includes Deanne Masters, the director and owner, who is a speech pathologist and audiologist with 20 years of practice experience across three continents and specialised training in early intervention for 0–3 year-olds; Zanne Vorster, a speech pathologist in her fifth year of practice with hospital, school, and private practice experience, including expertise in feeding and AAC systems; Sian Chapman, an occupational therapist experienced in early intervention and community settings who supports self-regulation and daily living skills; Maree Damouni, a speech pathology assistant currently completing a Bachelor of Speech Pathology with a focus on autism spectrum disorder; and Cristy Mathew, a fully qualified speech pathologist with international experience in multilingual and neurodiversity contexts who is completing Australian accreditation.