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The Yellow Ladybug Conference is one of my FAV times of the year! It makes my speechie brain so happy that this conferen...
02/06/2026

The Yellow Ladybug Conference is one of my FAV times of the year!

It makes my speechie brain so happy that this conference creates safety for people to feel confident to communicate their communication preferences 🧠

I love meeting new people, so please come say hello! ✨

Eating food regularly is a must for my regulation (and most of the time I forget to eat) - so you can absolutely start a conversation with me by asking if I’d like to get a snack!

What happened to understanding a child just because they deserve to be understood?The system asks therapists to work wit...
01/06/2026

What happened to understanding a child just because they deserve to be understood?

The system asks therapists to work within deadlines, timeframes and quantified data. And indirectly - that makes us prioritise exactly that. Dismissing probably every reason we chose this work in the first place.

I’ve done this. Before a steep learning curve professionally and personally. It felt gross. I didn’t want to track how many times a child requested something in a set number of days. But I did it anyway.

Now I ask - what’s actually happening with this child? What does this family want to know? Can we move slowly and intentionally, rather than matching the system’s pace?

We don’t always have a choice. But sometimes we do.
They are human first. This is a family first. The pressure of the system is real. But we don’t have to collapse to it alone.

Have you had a moment like this - writing a report, sitting with a family, reading back your own goals? Tell me below. I think we need to talk about this more.


Everything I share here is drawn from my clinical experience as a speech pathologist and my own lived experience as a neurodivergent person. It’s my perspective, shared to spark conversation, and isn’t a substitute for direct therapeutic advice.

28/05/2026

Nobody prepared parents for just how hard they’d have to fight to be believed within the system/s.

I have parents come to me who are exhausted and share some kind of story that has meant they are running out of trust. Trust with the system, trust with the therapists, and so many others.

The first thing I want them to know when they chat with me, before we chat about anything else, is that I do believe them. You know your child best - if you’re telling me your child is anxious, then they’re anxious. If you’re telling me they’re masking at school, then they are.

You shouldn’t have to convince anyone to listen to you, especially about your child.

If you’ve been that parent the one who keeps being told it’s “not that bad” or “the behaviours have stopped so it doesn’t matter any more” – I want you to know that your instinct was never the problem!

Have you ever had to have you ever felt like you had to fight just to be heard and believed?
(Everything I share here is drawn from my clinical experience as a speech pathologist and my own lived experience as a neurodivergent person. It’s my perspective, shared to spark conversation, and isn’t a substitute for direct therapeutic advice).

A teacher came to me recently, tired of having the same conversation with his students about expectations - that exhaust...
25/05/2026

A teacher came to me recently, tired of having the same conversation with his students about expectations - that exhaustion made complete sense given how often it was happening!

What he couldn't work out was why it wouldn't land. Why he'd have the conversation, really mean it, and then the next day it was like it never happened.

Here's the thing though - it wasn't his problem, and it wasn't the child's problem 🧠

Neurodivergent kids often can't carry a serious conversation forward into the next day, because a nervous system doesn't respond to words. It responds to
connection. And when connection comes first, everything else has a much better chance of actually landing 🌱

If you're in this cycle right now and you want a way through it, my ebook walks you through exactly how to build that connection first - practically, in a real classroom, with real kids.
Comment EBOOK below and I’ll send you the link 📖
(Everything I share here is drawn from my clinical experience as a speech pathologist and my own lived experience as a neurodivergent person. It’s my perspective, shared to spark conversation, and isn’t a substitute for direct therapeutic advice).

17/05/2026

Every time we use first-then visuals as a reward system - we’ve incidentally turned a regulation tool into a reward.

When a child can’t do the non-preferred task, it’s rarely because they need a better incentive. It’s because their brain and nervous system isn’t ready 🧠

First-then visuals help with predictability. It can reduce anxiety by making what’s coming next visible and certain. When we turn it into a “do this, and get that” - we’ve missed the whole point! And we’ve put the child in a position to where they have to perform before they’re actually ready to learn.

There can be a time and space for them. But if the task isn’t happening, it’s always going to be helpful to ask what’s happening at a deeper level 🤔

When have you used the first-then visual? How were you told to use it?👇
Everything I share here is drawn from my clinical experience as a speech pathologist and my own lived experience as a neurodivergent person. It’s my perspective, shared to spark conversation, and isn’t a substitute for direct therapeutic advice.

That instinct you have - the one that kicks in before the behaviour plan, before the strategy, before anyone tells you w...
13/05/2026

That instinct you have - the one that kicks in before the behaviour plan, before the strategy, before anyone tells you what to do?

Trust it.

The most powerful thing I see in teachers who work well with neurodivergent kids isn't a strategy. It's that they actually trust their instinct to connect first with how that child feels.

You already know more than you think.
Swipe to see what I mean. 👉

Feeling so inspired after the 💛✨From sensory-friendly spaces to incredible speakers, this experience reminded me of the...
27/10/2025

Feeling so inspired after the 💛✨
From sensory-friendly spaces to incredible speakers, this experience reminded me of the power of connection, community, and inclusion.
Swipe to see my key takeaways and highlights from this amazing space 🌿

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