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Keep Talking, Keep Connecting: Helping People with Parkinson’s Preserve Their Voice
How Speech Therapy can help your voice stay strong with Parkinson’s Disease. Losing your voice doesn’t mean losing your connection to the...
Aug 224 min read


The Surprising Choking Hazard Lurking in Your Sandwich
For most people, bread is a simple, comforting staple of daily life – soft, familiar, and seemingly harmless. But for individuals with...
May 214 min read


A Spoonful of Sugar Won’t Help the Medicine Go Down
A guide to safe medication intake for Older Australians with Dysphagia. Have you ever had trouble swallowing multiple vitamins, tablets,...
Mar 25 min read


Dietitians on texture modified diets, IDDSI and dysphagia
Swallow disorders, such as Dysphagia, increases the risk of choking, aspiration of food/fluids into the lungs and aspiration pneumonia. A...
Feb 176 min read


Watermelon: A juicy dilemma for those with dysphagia
Watermelon is a snack that many turn to when summer is around the corner. They’re juicy, sweet and refreshing…what’s not to love? For...
Oct 8, 20243 min read


Dementia and Speech Pathology is more than Dysphagia
This Dementia Action Week, our Speech Pathology team are highlighting how they can help people with Dementia for more than dysphagia....
Sep 20, 20241 min read


Communicate Your Way with AAC
When someone says “communication,” what is the first thing that comes to your mind? Talking, speaking, listening? Although these might be...
Aug 26, 20244 min read


Ice Cream, an unsuspecting choking risk
As the temperature drops and frosty mornings begin, on comes the heaters, hot foods and drinks, and nights rugged up in blankets....
Jul 15, 20245 min read


How Speech Pathologists can support you with your mealtimes
A lot of us look forward to eating food and enjoying our mealtimes every single day. For some, eating food is more than just fuelling the...
Jul 9, 20244 min read


How to best communicate with someone with Dementia
Dementia can affect how individuals both express themselves and understand the information that is communicated to them. This may result...
May 1, 20243 min read


Dysphagia: To Thicken or not to Thicken
Thickened fluids play a key role in the management of swallowing difficulties, clinically known as dysphagia, but are they the best...
Mar 13, 20244 min read


5 reasons why you need IDDSI training
A big part of our role as Speech Pathologists is providing education to others. This is particularly true for our training that we...
Apr 12, 20233 min read


Dementia awareness: You are not alone
Dementia is one of the worlds most feared illnesses. Its cruel and relentless nature and the way it impacts families is certainly...
Sep 19, 20225 min read


Act ‘F.A.S.T’ To Enjoy Precious Moments: Our Plead for Stroke Awareness
During National Stroke Week, we are celebrating ‘precious moments’ that you or your loved one’s can continue to enjoy during and after...
Aug 8, 20224 min read


We hate to be the bread-er of bad news
Crunchy toast with your favourite spread for breakfast, a big sandwich with lots of fillings for lunch, and a side of toast (yes, again)...
Jul 28, 20224 min read
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