Speech and Teach Speech Pathology Services
servicing south eastern suburbs of Melbourne

Speech Pathology Assessment

Early literacy assessments – pre-school aged children.

Screener assessments – Assessment of receptive and expressive language. This is often undertaken prior to commencing therapy, for example, during your child’s initial assessment. This information helps to ensure that the therapy plan, including goal setting, is tailored to the child’s needs.

Formal assessments can include formal standardised testing, dynamic assessments through play, observations, questionnaires and profiles.

Our team works with children and their families to develop individualised, evidence-based intervention plans to support a variety of communication needs, including language delays, speech sound disorders, and phonological difficulties.

We are committed to early intervention, ensuring your child receives the support they need to build confidence and effectively navigate their communication challenges.

Speech and Teach is a registered Medicare and NDIS provider based in south eastern Melbourne and offers Speech Pathology Services in the suburbs of Dandenong Narre Warren Beaconsfield Officer Pakenham Berwick Clyde Cranbourne Doveton Endeavour Hills Eumemmerring Hallam Hampton Park Harkaway Lynbrook Lysterfield Narre Warren North and Narre Warren South.

Speech Pathology Ongoing Therapy

We provide assessment and evidence-based treatment for individuals experiencing one or more difficulties in the following areas:

• Pronunciation/ articulation of sounds
• Expanding vocabulary
• Expressing ideas and understanding other people
• Listening to & following instructions
• Stuttering
• Social language and communication skills
• Literacy – Reading, writing, spelling and comprehension
• Voice – vocal strain/ overuse issues
• Early Intervention – preparing for kindergarten/prep transition

Speech pathology therapy (speech therapy for short) is a health service that assesses, diagnoses, and treats communication and swallowing disorders in people of all ages. Speech pathologists help improve speaking, listening, understanding, reading, writing, and safe eating/drinking.

Sarah James is a qualified speech pathologist and primary school teacher with 20 years of experience. Sarah provides mobile speech pathology services to children and adolescents with speech, language, and social communication difficulties in Melbourne’s Southeast metropolitan area, including the City of Casey, Greater Dandenong and Cardinia. Appointments can be arranged for in-home sessions, online, or at your child’s school during school hours (where permitted).

Speech Pathology Pricing

2026 Fees/ Rebate options

All fees are in line with the current NDIS price guide, which was set in 2021 ($193.99 per session).

Fee structure

• Initial assessment (1.5 hours): $290. Up to 1 hour of face-to-face consultation and/or assessment and up to 30 minutes of indirect services (eg. reviewing previous reports or referral notes, preparing resources or assessments for the session, scoring and interpreting results and communication of therapy plan).
• Ongoing therapy appointments (Telehealth or in person) $193.99. This fee covers 45 minutes of face-to-face and 15 minutes of preparation/ session notes.
• Report writing, letters to other healthcare professionals, communication and consultation (outside of face-to-face appointment time): $193.99 p/hour
• Travel charges: $97 per hour and charged in 5 min increments (Maximum of 30 minutes of travel).
• Families can opt for either weekly or fortnightly therapy sessions.

Families can access rebates via several options, including:

• Medicare rebates for speech pathology via GP referrals, through the Chronic Disease Management (CDM) plan (up to 5 sessions/year, ~$61.80 rebate) and the expanded M10/complex neurodevelopmental pathway (up to 20 sessions/lifetime, $87.25 rebate) for children/young adults under 25, starting 1 March 2026.
• Private Health fund rebates - some cover up to 70% of the costs
• NDIS funding – We offer services for plan and self-managed NDIS participants.