Word Play Speech Therapy is a neurodiverse-affirming speech and language therapy clinic located in Erskineville, servicing Sydney's Inner West.
Parents consistently highlight Shelley Kauffman's caring, dedicated approach with children, particularly those on the autism spectrum. Multiple reviewers describe her as professional, knowledgeable, and genuinely committed to the children she works with, and one parent with extensive experience across multiple speech pathologists specifically rated her as the most serious and responsible they had encountered. No concerns or negative feedback appear across the available reviews.
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Word Play Speech Therapy is a neurodiverse-affirming speech and language therapy clinic located in Erskineville, servicing Sydney's Inner West. They recognise that all brains are different, embrace diversity, and support each child's individual sensory needs, communication, and play style.
Assessment and treatment of communication difficulties including speech sounds, language development, stuttering, voice, and feeding and swallowing. Speech pathologists work with children and adults to help them communicate clearly and confidently.
Therapy and support to help children build understanding and use of language — including vocabulary, grammar, listening comprehension and conversational skills. Delivered by a speech pathologist, it addresses both what a child understands and how they express themselves.
Embrace all types of play, support children to find joy in play, develop language through play, and find play that is personally meaningful and fun.
Targeted teaching and therapy to help children develop reading, writing and spelling skills, including support for dyslexia, language disorders and learning difficulties. Structured, evidence-based approaches build the foundations of literacy from the ground up.
Support children to generate their own ideas, identify and solve problems, make inferences, reason, hypothesise, and predict.
Therapy sessions via an online platform using a computer or tablet with microphone and camera.
Therapy or support delivered in the client's home or community setting rather than in a clinic. This approach allows therapists to work within the real environment where skills need to be applied, which can lead to more practical, lasting outcomes.
Allied health and therapeutic services delivered directly within a school setting to support students with disability, developmental differences or learning difficulties. This model reduces disruption to schooling and allows therapists to collaborate with teachers in the child's natural learning environment.