Kids and Cubs Clinic brings specialist paediatric speech pathology right to the heart of the Annandale community. Our experienced clinicians are passionate about helping children communicate with greater clarity, confidence, and ease. We understand that every child’s communication profile is different, which is why we invest time in thorough assessment, honest conversation with families, and therapy that is as individual as your child. If your Annandale child needs speech support, we are here to help from the very first session.
Are You Noticing These Signs In Your Child?
Speech is unclear or consistently hard for others outside the family to understand
Uses a limited range of words or sentence structures compared with peers
Finds it difficult to follow instructions or understand what is said to them
Shows signs of frustration, embarrassment, or withdrawal around communication
Avoids reading aloud, group conversation, or activities that require verbal participation
Supporting Your Child’s Speech & Language Development
Speech Assessment
Our Annandale speech assessments are comprehensive, child-friendly, and designed to give families a thorough understanding of their child’s communication profile and the best way forward for therapy.
We work with Annandale families to address food refusal and sensory-based feeding difficulties through a calm, structured programme that prioritises your child’s comfort and gradually expands their diet.
Our Annandale clinicians specialise in supporting children with autism and developmental delay, providing therapy that targets functional communication, social skills, and confidence in everyday interactions.
We help Annandale children overcome speech sound difficulties and lisps through structured, engaging therapy that teaches correct placement and production in a way that builds lasting confidence.
Our Annandale language sessions are designed to close the gap between where your child is and where they need to be, targeting comprehension, vocabulary, sentence structure, and narrative skills.
We support Annandale children in developing the spoken language foundations that underpin successful reading and writing, using evidence-based phonological awareness and literacy programmes.
Our Annandale fluency therapy supports children and families with practical, compassionate strategies that reduce the impact of stuttering and build a more relaxed and confident approach to communication.
We assist Annandale families in identifying, setting up, and learning to use AAC systems effectively, ensuring every child has the communication tools they need to participate fully in daily life.
Supporting Your Child’s Speech & Language Development
Speech Assessment
Our Annandale speech assessments are comprehensive, child-friendly, and designed to give families a thorough understanding of their child’s communication profile and the best way forward for therapy.
We help Annandale children overcome speech sound difficulties and lisps through structured, engaging therapy that teaches correct placement and production in a way that builds lasting confidence.
Our Annandale language sessions are designed to close the gap between where your child is and where they need to be, targeting comprehension, vocabulary, sentence structure, and narrative skills.
We support Annandale children in developing the spoken language foundations that underpin successful reading and writing, using evidence-based phonological awareness and literacy programmes.
Our Annandale fluency therapy supports children and families with practical, compassionate strategies that reduce the impact of stuttering and build a more relaxed and confident approach to communication.
We assist Annandale families in identifying, setting up, and learning to use AAC systems effectively, ensuring every child has the communication tools they need to participate fully in daily life.
We work with Annandale families to address food refusal and sensory-based feeding difficulties through a calm, structured programme that prioritises your child’s comfort and gradually expands their diet.
Our Annandale clinicians specialise in supporting children with autism and developmental delay, providing therapy that targets functional communication, social skills, and confidence in everyday interactions.
Kids and Cubs Clinic supports Annandale families with NDIS, Medicare, and private health insurance funding options so that accessing quality speech therapy is as straightforward and stress-free as possible.
Experienced Paediatric Speech Pathologists
Our team has extensive experience working with children across a wide range of communication needs. Annandale families can rely on our clinicians to be skilled, empathetic, and genuinely invested in their child’s success.
Evidence-Based Speech Therapy
All therapy at Kids and Cubs Clinic is informed by the latest clinical research. Annandale children receive care that is proven effective, regularly reviewed, and always tailored to their changing needs.
Specialist CAS Clinic
Our specialist CAS Clinic offers Annandale families access to intensive, expert therapy for Childhood Apraxia of Speech, one of the most complex and often misunderstood childhood speech disorders.
How Your Journey Will Be
Initial Assessment
Every Annandale child’s therapy journey begins with a detailed and relaxed assessment that builds a full picture of their communication abilities and helps us set goals that genuinely matter to your family.
Personalised Therapy Sessions
Our Annandale therapy sessions are carefully planned, playful, and always goal-directed. We use your child’s interests to fuel engagement so that real learning happens in every single session.
Tracking Progress and Success
We work in close partnership with Annandale families throughout the therapy journey, providing regular progress updates, transparent goal reviews, and easy-to-use home practice strategies.
Helping Children Grow Towards a Brighter Future
Individuals
Schools
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Give Your Child the Right Start with Speech Therapy
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It is a pleasure to leave a review for Lucy.
Lucy has worked with our daughter over a period of around 12 months. We have seen huge improvements with our daughter's lisp, confidence, and pronounication of tricky speech clusters.
From my perspective as a parent, the warm, engaging, and nurturing clinic, and Lucy's bubbly and positive personality has meant the world to us. Even when our daughter has really struggled, Lucy always took a strength based approach and made us feel safe and that everything would be 'okay'. My daughter adores Lucy because she made all learning fun and playful.
We have worked with many allied health professionals over the years, and no one has come close to how caring, kind, and skilled Lucy is.
Thank you. <3
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Sarah Ndukwe
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We’ve had a wonderful experience with Samantha. She has been incredibly patient, kind, and professional throughout our sessions. Our daughter has made noticeable progress in her speech and confidence, and we couldn’t be more grateful!
The sessions are always well-structured, engaging, and tailored to suit my daughter’s needs. Samantha creates such a warm and supportive environment that my daughter looks forward to every visit.
Highly recommend to any families looking for a skilled and compassionate speech therapist!
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Priya Boumelhem
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Samantha is very knowledgeable, professional, kind, patient and very supportive. I’ve been seeing her for past 2 years for my son who’s been diagnosed with CAS (childhood apraxia of speech) and she’s outstanding speech therapist. She’s so dedicated and is able to get so much from my son as he loves her sessions so much.
You would not find a better and more supportive speech pathologist. Highly recommend her.
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wan joshua
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very thoughtful and extremely knowledgeable, one of the best speech pathologists I have seen in my career as a physiotherapist.
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Melissa Lupprian
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I am so thankful to have been told about it Sam when the clinic first opened. Sam is very passionate about what she does and takes her business seriously. She is always open to communication with parents about different approaches and has also been a support to me personally as a parent. Thank you, Sam, and happy first birthday!
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Alan Ayoub
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A friendly, welcoming, well put together clinic. Fantastic service and help provided. Highly recommend!
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Brittany Olsson
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Samantha has been incredibly supportive of both my girls who are 2 and 3 who had a speech delay and concerns around development. She is honest, helpful, kind, warm and has great skills particularly with kids that have behavioural concerns. I would highly recommend her services. She has a world of knowledge of multidisciplinary teams and is able to suggest best steps to access support and which support would benefit.
Funding
At Kids and Cubs Clinic we accept the following funding options:
NDIS
Self-managed funding
Plan-managed funding
Private Health Insurance
Please consult your private health provider to determine eligibility and rebate amounts.
Medicare
Chronic Disease Management plan (previously known as Enhanced Primary Care plan)
Please discuss Medicare funding options with your GP
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does child speech therapy cost in Annandale?
Assessment fees in Annandale typically range from $380 to $680 depending on your child’s age and needs. Therapy session costs vary based on the type and frequency of support. Contact us for a full overview of fees and funding options.
What age should a child go to speech therapy?
Children can start therapy at any age between 0 and 16 years. Early support helps toddlers find their voice, while older children can work on school skills, social confidence, and literacy with great success.
What happens if my child is shy during paediatric speech therapy?
In Australia, speech pathologist is the official professional title. Both terms refer to the same qualified clinician who assesses and treats speech, language, and communication difficulties in children.
