Talkabout 4 & 5

Bringing language to every part of your child’s day

We help children's speech, language and literacy grow and thrive.

Building strong speech and language skills for children aged 4 and 5

Telethon Speech & Hearing’s Talkabout program is a specialised language service for children who are experiencing a speech and language delay or disorder. This program combines highly specialised education and specialist health services to help develop speech and language skills through repeated opportunities to experience, explore and discover concepts vital for effective speech and learning.

With a family-centred, play-based approach, Talkabout helps build foundational skills and bring language to to every part of your child’s day at their own pace.

Enrolments are accepted all year round with NDIS funding and scholarships available to eligible families. No referral is needed!

Take a virtual tour of our classrooms! Or contact us to enrol in Talkabout today.

Speech and language support for Kindergarten and Pre-Primary children

Talkabout 4 and 5 are both curriculum compliant school programs providing evidence-based learning supported by the Dyslexia-SPELD Foundation.

This unique combination of education and therapy is a valuable collaboration that allows our teams to help achieve excellent outcomes for your child.

Children take part in small groups, play based activity stations facilitated by an early childhood teacher, education assistant, speech pathologist or occupational therapist. Class sizes are very small and high staffing levels allow for intensive small groups and individualised work on focus areas.

Talkabout is a part-time program that runs collaboratively alongside your child’s mainstream school. Children are eligible to enrol during their kindergarten or pre-primary years.

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Additional speech and language support

Talkabout is also available to children of all ages! Take a browse through our individual and group options below:

Talkabout 2 – suitable for children aged 18 months to 2.5 years.
Talkabout Playtime – for children turning 3 before June 30 and not yet ready for a structured group program.
Talkabout 3 – suitable for children turning 3 before June in the year of enrolment.
Individual Speech Pathology – Telethon Speech & Hearing offers private speech pathology assessments for children with no referral needed.

Talkabout 4 (T4)

This kindy program is for children turning four who have a speech and language delay or disorder. It runs for one full day per week and is designed to sit as an addition to a mainstream kindy program.

The program focuses on:

Receptive and expressive language skills
Play and social skills
Fine and gross motor skills
Sensory integration

Talkabout 5 (T5)

This pre-primary program is for children turning five who have a speech and language delay or disorder. It runs for two full days per week and is available on a Monday / Tuesday or Thursday / Friday. Children attend their mainstream pre-primary for the remainder of the week.