Lauren Osborne

Here's a fun Speech Pathology week memory from 2012. That 2 year old is 13 now, he and his brother insist that odd socks are better than matching ones! Communication is so valuable, whether it's about small things (socks!) or bigger ones. #SPweek #SLPeeps #CommunicatingForLife

My phone reminded me that this is what I was doing in #lockdown 2 years ago... taking photos and making videos to illustrate prepositions. #mySLTday

Intensive Day ??? (I've lost count!). Talking about strong and weak syllables & making nicknames out of the strong one. (Client's name isn't pictured here). I deliberately left out Andrew (Andy or Drew?), Patricia (Pat or Trish?), Elizabeth (Eliza, Liz, Beth?). #mySLTday

If you think waiting 3 seconds before giving feedback in ReST therapy is a long time... try waiting *10* seconds between turns while playing Jenga! Apparently that's what the rules tell you to do! #apraxia #dysarthria #motorspeech #ReSTtherapy #mySLTday

Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I do! I was in a meeting where some marketing dude was trying to convince us to use Twitter to promote the org I was working for.... I googled "Speech Pathologists" and Twitter, and found the #slpeeps ! #MyTwitterAnniversary

Intensive, day 6. Turns out there are lots of polysyllabic ice cream flavours- vanilla, chocolate, strawberry.... the very yummy list goes on. Today I also pretended to eat some not so yummy flavours- grass, and chilli! #apraxia #mySLTday

Intensive, Day 5. I have a client who has trouble with words which contain both /k/ and /t/. We founds some very motivating words to practice with- tic tac, kit kat, skittles. #mySLTday

I'm hoping there will be a NDP4... and that it will come with data sheets so I don't have to make my own! A girl can dream, right? Will it be called the NDP4 or will it be the NAP4 (Nuffield Apraxia Programme, 4th Edition)? #apraxia #mySLTday

Day 2 of the July Intensive, and I've been having fun with this "DTTC dice". The nice people at Kmart call it an emotions dice, but I'm using it practice varying intonation patterns. kmart.com.au/product/emotion… #mySLTday #WeSpeechies #apraxia #dysarthria #motorspeech