Your Trusted Speech Pathologist - Northern Beaches and Lower North Shore
Northern Beaches Speech Pathology offers mobile and online (telehealth) speech therapy services to preschool kids, school children, adults, and seniors. We seek to support our clients to develop core skills to help them better thrive in their relationships and interactions with others. We strive to offer developmentally appropriate therapy that will positively impact the lives of the individuals we serve. We take seriously every family’s uniqueness while we strive to enhance the confidence to communicate in our clients’ lives.
We welcome all clients from different parts of Sydney. We are very focused on servicing our local surrounding areas of Northern Beaches and Lower North Shore of Sydney that covers:
- Forestville
- Frenchs Forest
- Killarney Heights
- Manly
- Seaforth
- Narrabeen
- Monavale
- Collaroy
- Mosman
- Balgowlah
- Dee Why
- Cromer
- Neutral Bay
- Avalon
- Cammeray
- Willoughby
We help you build and maintain relationships, through the following core skills:
- Communication through language (whether it be spoken, written, using gestures or other modes of communication)
- Clear speech and clear articulation
- The ability to understand questions and conceots
- Social and play skills
- The ability express oneself, ask questions and make comments
- The ability to negotiate
- The ability to advocate, to ask for help, say ‘no’ or when we don’t want something
- Understanding and following instructions
Want to find out more? Contact us now!
Meet Your Therapist: Nicole Ohanesian (MSPA CPSP, MSP, BSpHLSc)
Nicole was born and raised on the Northern Beaches of Sydney and has a passion to support and provide mobile services to individuals in the local community of the Northern Beaches and Lower North Shore. She is bilingual, speaking both English and Armenian.
Nicole is dedicated to providing services to her clients that makes them feel heard, listened to and involved in the therapy process. She seeks to prioritise the needs and wants of her clients and families, using a collaborative approach to therapy. This approach seeks to make families and clients the key facilitators of their own progress. Nicole has seen first-hand, the benefit of providing Speech Pathology services that are accessible and comfortable for clients and families in their own homes, schools, pre-schools, workplace or community settings.
Nicole has obtained a Master of Speech Pathology at The University of Technology, Sydney (MSP), as well as a Bachelor of Speech, Hearing and Language Sciences at Macquarie University (BSpHLSc). She is a Certified Practicing Speech Pathologist of Speech Pathology Australia (MSPA CPSP).
Nicole has experience working with a range of diagnoses and needs, including speech sounds (articulation), receptive (understanding) and expressive (the meaning, structure and use of words and sentences) language, literacy (reading, comprehension, spelling and writing), multimodal communication needs (AAC or MMC), fluency (stuttering), Aphasia, Alexia, Cerebellar Ataxia, Cleft-Palate, Down-Syndrome, Intellectual Impairment, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Cerebral Palsy. She has worked with clients ranging from 2 years of age to 85 years. Nicole has been specially trained in the Lidcombe Program and Camperdown Program by The Australian Stuttering Research Centre (ASRC), The Sounds-Write literacy program and the More Than Words – Hanen Program.
Nicole has a specific interest in communication areas such as fluency (stuttering), speech (articulation), literacy (reading, spelling and writing) and social skills in clients of all ages.
