Starting Out is a mobile speech pathology practice servicing children from birth to 6 years of age in the Adelaide Hills and surrounding areas.
Our Philosophy
Starting Out is focused on providing high quality, evidence based speech pathology services to children and their families.
- Holistic
- We believe that children learn best and are most comfortable in their natural environments so therapy is provided in your home, childcare, kindy or school.
- Inclusive
- Parents know their child best and are the experts on their child’s abilities and needs. We will work with you to set goals and develop strategies that are meaningful to you and your child.
- Practical
- We believe that therapy does not stop with us. Goal setting will be embedded into everyday routines to maximise learning opportunities throughout the day.
- Collaborative
- We will collaborate with other professionals involved in your child’s care to ensure the best outcome for your child's development.
Services
Starting Out provides Early Intervention support to children from birth until 7 years of age. We provide assessment and intervention to support development in the following areas:
- Early communication skills
- late talkers, play skills, turn taking and attention to task
- Speech development
- pronunciation of sounds in words and clarity
- Receptive language
- understanding what is said/asked
- Expressive language
- using words and forming sentences
- Social communication and pragmatics
- Listening skills
- auditory processing and recall
- Literacy
- Fluency/Stuttering
Meet the Team
Sarah Adams
Director and Senior Speech Pathologist
Sarah Adams has been working as a paediatric speech pathologist for 10 years in government, not-for-profit and private practice settings.
Sarah worked for DECD before moving onto Novita Children’s Services where she worked for 6 years. Since becoming a mum in 2020 Sarah moved to private practice.
Sarah has experience working with children of all ages with a range of needs from speech and language delays, feeding difficulties, Autism and social communication difficulties, and complex communication needs. Sarah has a special interest in early intervention speech and language and is passionate about neurodiversity affirming practice.
Sarah has training and/or certification in the following:- Hanen 'More than Words' program for children with social communication difficulties.
- PROMPT prompts for Restructuring Oral Musculature Phonetic Targets
- PODD pragmatically organised dynamic display books
- Key word sign
- DIR Floortime
Fees
Sessions are charged based on time rather than type of session. We do not charge more for initial sessions or assessment sessions. Our fees are in line with the NDIS price guide of $193.99 per hour.
Travel will be charged depending on the time required to travel to the place of service and we will always endeavour, where possible to minimise travel times for clients.
NDIS: Starting Out can provide services to children with an NDIS plan if they are ‘plan managed’ or ‘self managed’.
Private Health Insurance rebates: You may be entitled to a rebate for Speech Pathology services. Contact your insurer for more information.
Medicare: Your GP may be able to provide a medicare plan for your child that attracts a rebate.
Get in touch
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