Talk It Up Speech Pathology

21/05/2026

14/05/2026

Staff are out of the office today. Please email if you need us. 🙏🌷

23/04/2026

Amegilla College is a planned independent school and community project in the Bendigo area that is being developed specifically for neurodivergent young people.

The school aims to:
🌱 Provide a smaller, more supportive learning environment
🌱 Provide teaching that is adapted to how neurodivergent students learn
🌱 Focus on emotional wellbeing, social development and strengths

The school is still in development.

They would love people to join them for a neurodiversity-friendly trivia night in Bendigo - a fun, inclusive evening designed for all kinds of thinkers! 🧠

02/04/2026

Today the Talk It Up Team are enjoying a professional development day!

We have completed further learning on Developmental Language Disorder. Next, we are super excited to learn about the Social Stencil Program in preparation of bringing it into our caseloads!

We will be back from the Easter break on Tuesday. Happy Easter everyone! 🐰 🪺

28/03/2026

Lots of happy tears. 🥹

Just an outstanding young person ready to take on the world and gosh, it was a privilege to help them along the way. ☀️

11/03/2026

Autistic.
Autism Spectrum.

These days we are finding more and more people who are Autistic.

Why? Is it because there are more of us now? Possibly. There are a huge number of Autistic adults reproducing, after all.

Is it because we have gotten better at recognising Autistic people of all presentations? Likely. Before, diagnosing professionals were only ever looking for one very particular presentation of Autism. If you didn’t fit that presentation then you didn’t get diagnosed.

These days we know more. We know that Autistic people can present in so many different ways. You aren’t going to find two Autistic people who are exactly the same- just as you aren’t going to find ANY two people in the world who are exactly the same ANYWHERE.

I don’t think that’s difficult to grasp, and I’m tired of people demanding sameness from us.

More and more adults are recognising that they are autistic later in life. They often come to this realisation after struggling for a really long time. We struggle, we search, we reflect, we learn, and many of us find community. Many of us find acceptance, understanding, the vocab we need to explain our experiences. Many of us find validation, inclusion, authentic relationships, and pride- when all those things have been missing for a lifetime.

We don’t usually come out with funding. We don’t get additional supports. We don’t even get understanding or empathy a lot of the time.
We aren’t taking anything from anyone. We are only finding ourselves.
I don’t think that’s problematic.

And to those who might say that the autism spectrum is now too wide to be clinically useful, I say this:

We aren’t clinical products.
We aren’t case studies.
We aren’t hypotheses.
We aren’t data.

We are human.
We are living this life.

And for many of us, finally recognising that we are Autistic was life-changing. It was the moment we stopped wondering why, stopped hating ourselves, and started healing.

If I don’t meet your expectations of what an autistic person looks like, I don’t really care. I might have before. But my community has helped me develop self-acceptance, self-worth, and strong Autistic pride.

If you have found acceptance here, I’m extremely glad.
I’m sorry if anyone has made you feel invalid or unwelcome.

Titanic reference-
There is plenty of room on the floating door.
None of us deserve to sink.

Em 🌈

08/03/2026

Very grateful for the incredible team of women at Talk It Up! And to the amazing women who bring their children to see us. Thank you for all you do. 🙏🙏🙏