Supporting children and their families to thrive.

We are a mobile speech pathology service that specialises in working with children in the years before school.
We can work with you and your child at home, childcare or kinder and service the Castlemaine, Kyneton and Bendigo areas.

My name is Harriet Wilson and I am an experienced Speech Pathologist and Key Worker, promoting positive early childhood development for children and their families. I work with children in the years before school (aged 0-6 years), supporting their development and fostering their sense of belonging and inclusion in the world.

Every child and their family is unique. To support your child’s individual needs, I spend time getting to know your child, their strengths, interests and family context so I can provide them with the right support. I work within your families everyday routines, using play to support children’s speech and language development, pre-literacy, social and cognitive skills and positive family functioning. I specialise in supporting neurodivergent children, children with a developmental delay and children with an experience of trauma.

I work closely with parents and carers, building skills and confidence so you can support your child’s development across everyday activities. I connect the team around the child and include key people in the child’s life as an important part of their therapy. This may include parents, carers, grandparents or siblings and other professionals such as teachers, occupational therapists or psychologists.

I also provide coaching to early childhood educators, teaching practical strategies to further promote children’s language, pre-literacy and social skills in their childcare or kinder.

I am a strong advocate for inclusion and work across multiple settings including the home, childcare or kinder. I have worked in early intervention, family services, NDIS and supporting the implementation of Victorian kinder reforms around the state. I can provide therapeutic support for your child’s development as well as help you to navigate complex funding systems and engage confidently with services such as playgroups, childcare, kinder and the first year of school.

We provide support for:

Communication Development

Building children’s understanding of their world and use of communication through words, sentences, gestures and visual aids.

Play Skills

Play allows children to learn about their world and is important for cognitive and communication development. We use play as an important part of all therapy goals.

Social Skills

Growing children’s confidence to socialise and interact with siblings and peers.

Everyday Routines

Helping positive family functioning by supporting children understand and follow everyday family routines.

Engaging in Early Education

Support for individual children at their childcare and/or kinder to promote a positive learning experience and transition to school. We can also help with relevant funding applications for the education setting.

Coaching for Educators

Utilising Hanen, Circle of Security and Berry Street Education Model principles and programs to strengthen educators confidence and skills to build communication and social skills for all children.

Training and Expertise

Harriet Wilson is a Certified Practicing Speech Pathologist. She has training in the following programs and models:

Hanen ‘It Takes Two to Talk’

A program for parents of young children (birth to 5 years of age) who have been identified as having a language delay. Parents learn practical strategies to help their children learn language naturally throughout their day together.

Hanen ‘Learning Language and Loving It’

Providing early childhood educators with practical strategies for helping all children in the classroom build language and social skills, no matter what their learning and communication styles are.

Hanen ‘Teacher Talk’

Supporting early childhood educators to create rich and stimulating language-learning environments.

Harriet Wilson holds a current Police Check and Working With Children Check

Circle of Security Parenting

A program for parents of young children aged 0 to 12 years who would like to strengthen bonds with their children to help them thrive, increase their self esteem and feel more secure in their relationships within the home and outside the family.

Berry Street Education Model

A model designed to support early childhood educators to create a supportive and trauma-informed positive education setting.

Trauma-Informed Practitioner

Harriet has a sound understanding of the impact of trauma on the developing brain and can support parents, carers and educators to create positive environments that will help children feel safe, build trust and heal from trauma.

Harriet provides individual services to NDIS participants who are self-managed or have a plan manager. See below for details on our current rates.

For costs associated with School Readiness Funding or coaching for early childhood educators please get in touch for an individual quote.

Fees and Funding

  • Sessions are charged at the NDIS rate of $193.99 per hour.

    Sessions start at 75 minutes in duration, consisting of 60 minutes face to face therapy and 15 minutes administration.

  • Travel to/from a session is charged at the NDIS rate of $193.99 per hour. The amount of travel you are charged will depend on your location.

  • A cancellation fee will be charged when you do not provide at least 48 hours notice for our agreed service. This fee will be 100% of the service fee.

    Telehealth options are available if someone is unwell at home.

    If you cancel the session after we have arrived at your location, travel fees will also be charged.

  • Additional charges will apply for time spent supporting your child beyond our direct therapy session. This may include charges for:

    • Report writing, including NDIS reports

    • Resource creation

    • Liaising with other professionals

    • Completing and interpreting assessment results