Growing Your Child’s Communication Skills and Confidence

Everything in life needs a strong support system to grow. We will work with you and your child to build foundation skills that support the development of communication abilities, encourages growth, and cultivates confidence.

Growing Your Child’s Communication Skills and Confidence

Everything in life needs a strong support system to grow. We will work with you and your child to build foundation skills that support the development of communication abilities, encourages growth, and cultivates confidence.

Growing Your Child’s Communication Skills and Confidence

Everything in life needs a strong support system to grow. We will work with you and your child to build foundation skills that support the development of communication abilities, encourages growth, and cultivates confidence.

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Our services

Supporting Children and their Families

Speech Pathology

A Growing Understanding

SPEECH PATHOLOGY

A GROWING UNDERSTANDING

A Growing Understanding Speech Pathology, servicing Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, Port Stephens and the Hunter Region, is committed to providing speech pathology and therapy services that are based on current research, and are individualised to suit your child’s needs.

Our unique approach to identifying your child’s strengths, needs, and interests, enables us to provide a personalised service that is engaging, fun and helps your child reach their full potential.

We also work with families to grow their knowledge, understanding and skills, so they can feel confident in supporting the growth of their child.

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Meet The Team

Your Professional Speech Support Network

Melissa Roberts

Melissa Roberts

Speech Pathologist & Special Education Teacher

Melissa holds both a Bachelor of Speech Pathology and a Bachelor of Teaching / Bachelor of Arts.

Jackie Parsons

Jackie Parsons

Speech Pathologist

Jackie has over 10 years’ experience working as a speech pathologist in paediatrics and in disability.

Jess Kiely

Jess Kiely

Speech Pathologist

Jess is a dedicated and passionate speech pathologist who enjoys working with families to grow children’s communication skills.

Lauren Haskins

Lauren Haskins

Speech Pathologist & Director

Lauren obtained a Bachelor of Speech Pathology from the University of Newcastle in 2005.

A Growing Understanding is proud to support The Animal Nursery at the Newcastle Regional Show (March 1, 2 and 3). We have tickets to giveaway, so you can go and see the animals! Like our page and comment in this post to tell us (or show us with a photo!) a funny time with your children with animals or why your children love animals! Winners to be notified by 9pm tomorrow (Thursday 28/2/19). ... See MoreSee Less

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👀👣👱🏻‍♀️👨‍🦲What a fun activity to kick start Wednesday morning with Mister W! I love activities that target several goals at once and this activity didn’t disappoint - we practiced pronouns (he/she), body parts, plurals (shoes/eyes/ears) AND learnt how to construct a face! Great fun and great learning 🙂 ~Melissa :-) ... See MoreSee Less

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*POSITION AVAILABLE FOR CLIENT EXPERIENCE OFFICER*

We currently have a casual position available for a super reliable, efficient and friendly person to join the wonderful Client Experience team in our growing practice.

Our Client Experience Officer (CEO) will play a huge role in the successful running of our clinic and they are valued accordingly. They will strive towards achieving our collective vision and relied upon heavily by clients and practitioners. Our CEO will undertake reception and admin responsibilities, with the main focus of their role being to provide amazing experiences and care for our clients.

To attain a position on our CEO team, you must:

- be keen to learn;
- have good computer skills;
- be a great communicator;
- show initiative;
- be able to work under pressure;
- work well as part of a team;
- be flexible with availabilities.

No experience necessary as full training will be provided. The position may be well-suited to a tertiary student as it entails 16-24 hours per week including three weekday evenings... although we are absolutely open to hearing from anyone who has the flexibility to cover those hours. Start date will be Monday 1st April, 2019.

If you think you have what it takes and would like to join our fun and passionate team (and you think you could work alongside the fabulous group of people above!!), then send your resume along with a cover letter to our Practice Director, Lauren Haskins, at lauren@agrowingunderstanding.com.au. One small catch... you must include the word 'Tree' somewhere in your application!!

Applications close on Tuesday 12th March, 2019. For more information about our service, go to www.agrowingunderstanding.com.au
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🎉 EXCITING NEWS! 🎉 We have just opened up new appointment availability for both our Lake Macquarie and Port Stephens centres, including after school appointments at both sites! Contact our admin team to secure your time with our award winning team while they are available.

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A Growing Understanding- Speech Pathology

📚This is a fabulous promotion from BIG W- offering free books to the community! We will provide a tip sheet each week on how to encourage communication skills through the shared book reading of these giveaway books!! Stay tuned!!

BIG W
At BIG W we believe in story time and that's why we are giving Aussie families access to more books at home to build healthy minds and bright futures for Australia’s children. And we are very excited to launch our FREE BOOKS offer starting this Thursday, 21st February 📚!
For more details visit: www.bigw.com.au/free-books-for-kids

New book released each week for 12 weeks. In store only. While stocks last.
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Our Locations

Lake Macquarie
Unit 7-8, 48 Oakdale Road, Gateshead NSW

Port Stephens
Building E, 1 Technology Place, Williamtown NSW

Our Locations

Lake Macquarie
Unit 7-8, 48 Oakdale Road, Gateshead NSW

Port Stephens
Building E, 1 Technology Place, Williamtown NSW

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