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During school holidays, we run intensive explicit, systematic synthetic phonics therapy groups for children in their first three years of school needing extra help with learning to read and spell. These are held at our North Fitzroy office.

Each group runs for a week, one hour per day, plus another hour or so of homework activities. We provide all the necessary resources, including sets of decodable readers. Children are carefully matched, with an absolute maximum ratio of four children per Speech Pathologist, allowing for high-intensity sessions.

The groups run at a fast pace with a mix of activities, including plenty of games, fun and opportunities to make friends.

Children not already on our caseload need to attend a screening session before joining a group. This allows us to check their skills and ensure we place them in the right group, helps us cater for special needs/interests, and lets them meet us and learn about the groups. If we don’t have a group matching a child’s skills and needs, we can usually suggest other intervention options.

Our next groups will be in the week of 7-11 April 2025:

Five hours of intensive intervention in our holiday groups, including homework materials and a final report costs $785 (the industry standard fee for an hour of speech therapy/report-writing is the NDIS rate, $193.99). Many health insurers pay rebates for group Speech Pathology sessions. Payment is requested by 31 March to secure a child’s place in a group. Missed sessions are not refundable (we have the same workload and costs whether everyone attends all sessions or not).

Please contact us on admin@spelfabet.com.au or (03) 8528 0138 if you’d like to find out more about these groups, or to book screening for a struggling reader/speller in their first three years of schooling, to work out whether one of our groups would suit them.