Warm, evidence-based speech pathology for children and adolescents in Adelaide

At Easy Speech Pathology, we support children and adolescents with speech, language, literacy and social communication in a what that feels calm, respectful and supportive. Services are offered through clinic-based, school-based and home-based sessions, always tailored to the individual and their family.

Who we support

We support children and adolescents, and their families, who have concerns about communication, learning or confidence. This may include difficulties being understood, delayed speech sound development, articulation difficulties, phonological delay, or more complex speech needs such as childhood apraxia of speech.

We also support children and adolescents with language difficulties, including challenges with understanding language, expressing ideas clearly, following instructions, or developing vocabulary and sentence structure. Literacy and reading difficulties — including dyslexia, phonological awareness difficulties and written language challenges — may also be supported.

Social communication support is available for children and adolescents who find it difficult to navigate conversations, peer interactions or social expectations. We regularly work with autistic and ADHD young people, and other neurodivergent profiles, using a strengths-based and neuro-affirming approach.

Support is available from early childhood through to adolescence, with a strong emphasis on collaboration with families, schools and other allied health professionals.

About Easy Speech Pathology

Easy Speech Pathology was established in 2022 by Olivia Clarnette. Olivia graduated from Flinders University at the end of 2016 and has since worked as a speech pathologist across home, school and clinic settings, before establishing her own practice.

Olivia supports children and adolescents with a range of communication needs, including speech sound delay and disorder, language difficulties, literacy challenges (including dyslexia and dysgraphia), and social communication differences. Her work spans mild to more complex presentations and is always guided by each child or adolescent’s individual strengths, needs and goals.

Easy Speech Pathology takes a neuro-affirming and strengths-based approach. This means therapy is not about changing who a child is, but about supporting understanding, confidence, self-advocacy and participation in ways that feel respectful and meaningful. Strategies are used to support children to better understand themselves, others and their environments — not to enforce compliance or “normalise” behaviour.

Olivia draws on a range of evidence-informed approaches, adapting them thoughtfully and flexibly to suit each child or adolescent. This may include frameworks such as Social Thinking, as well as structured literacy and speech sound approaches including Sounds-Write, Laser Literacy, Seven Steps to Writing Success, and evidence-based apraxia intervention (including DTTC). No single program is used in isolation; strategies are selected and adapted based on what is most supportive for the individual.

A warm, collaborative and family-centred approach sits at the heart of all intervention. Olivia places strong value on working closely with families, educators and other allied health professionals to ensure therapy feels consistent, supportive and aligned across home, school and everyday life. Creating a safe, trusting and engaging space for children and adolescents is central to how Easy Speech Pathology operates.

How it Works

Support usually begins with an initial conversation, where families can share concerns, ask questions and talk through what support might look like — without pressure or obligation.

From there, assessment and planning may be used to better understand a child or adolescent’s strengths and areas of need. Therapy is then tailored to the individual, with a focus on building skills in a way that feels meaningful, supportive and relevant to everyday life.

Ongoing communication and collaboration with families, schools and other professionals helps ensure progress is supported across home, school and community settings.

Funding

  • Easy Speech is able to provide services to participants of the National Disability Insurance Scheme who are self-managed or fund managed.

  • Medicare rebates are available under a GP advanced care plan (total of 5 sessions per calendar year). Please speak to your health care provider to discuss eligibility.

  • Easy Speech is registered with Private Health Insures. After each session a receipt will be provided and it is up to the client to access their private health rebate through their insurer using the details provided on the invoice.

  • At Easy Speech we offer 30 minute, 45 minute and 1 hour tailored sessions. Please contact us to find out more about session costs.