About Us

Natalie Trevisan, Speech Pathologist

BSpHSc, MSLP

Natalie Trevisan is an experienced, bilingual speech pathologist who has worked in a variety of settings including community health centres, medical centres, private practice, day care centres, preschools and homes in both Sydney and Canberra. She has also worked in a range of schools across Sydney’s Northern Beaches and Eastern suburbs including The Scots College, Kambala, Kincoppal-Rose Bay, Oxford Falls Grammar and many more. Natalie is competent in both English and Italian and is able to conduct assessments and therapy via a telehealth service delivery model. 

 Natalie has worked with children with a range of clinical diagnoses such as: 

• Developmental Language Disorders (DLD) - Language delay
• Written Language Disorders – Dyslexia, difficulties reading & difficulties spelling
• Speech Sound Disorders (SSD) including Articulation Disorders, Phonological Disorders, Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS), Velopharyngeal Dysfunction (VPD), Resonance Disorders and with Children with Cleft Palate
• Social Skill difficulties & Pragmatic Disorders
• Voice difficulties & voice disorders
• ‘Picky’ eaters and 'fussy' eaters 
• Fluency disorders – Stuttering

 Medically complex children including: 

• Hearing Impairment/Hearing Loss
• Selective mutism
• Chromosomal abnormalities and genetic mutations/deletions
• Working Memory difficulties
• Global Developmental Delay (GDD), Intellectual Disability (ID), Learning Difficulties (LD)
• Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
• Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD)
• Cerebral Palsy (CP)
• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) - inattentive type
• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
• Anxiety

Having graduated from Macquarie University with a Bachelor of Speech and Hearing Sciences and Master of Speech-Language Pathology, Natalie is a member of the Golden Key Academic Honour Society and continually strives to advance her clinical knowledge with frequent professional development. Natalie has spent time mentoring, training and passing on knowledge to allied health students and speech pathology graduates. She is a Certified Practising Speech Pathologist (CPSP) and is a member of Speech Pathology Australia (SPA). Natalie has attended training and is certified in using therapy approaches:

Feeding:

• CSDS: Paediatric Feeding & Swallowing Education (PFASE)
• QLD Government: Telepractice for the delivery of paediatric feeding services 
• Sequential Oral Sensory (SOS) Approach to Feeding 
• Speech Pathology Australia: Delivering paediatric dysphagia/feeding services via telepractice

Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS):

• Nuffield Dyspraxia Programme  
• Dynamic and Tactile Temporal Cueing (DTTC) 
• ReST Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) 
• Treating Childhood Apraxia of Speech – Tricia McCabe

Early intervention

• DIR Floortime 
• Hanen: It Takes Two to Talk 
• Blades: Adding Meaning and Interaction to Language Therapy
• Sensory Tools: Traffic Jam in my Brain 
• Colourful Semantics
• Phonological Puzzles & Non-linear Phonology - Elise Baker

Natalie is passionate about assisting children to learn, grown, develop and maximise their potential in order to give them the confidence and tools to communicate. She has a particular interest working with toddlers and preschoolers and supporting their feeding and communication development.