Our children's service



​Making it easy to get help

We believe it should be easy for families to get help for their children at the earliest sign that something might be wrong.  Our aim is to enable families to give their children a great future by giving them access to the right help, right when they need it.



Options for referring your child

If you are concerned about your child’s language, listening, literacy or learning, you have these referral options:

  1. Ask your child's school or ECE to make a referral to Ministry of Education Learning Support (MOELS) and wait to find out what fair and impartial, publicly funded service they may be able to offer you and your child
  2. Call us or email us on 0508 SPEECHIE or office@speechie.co.nz to self-refer and get your child seen straight away
  3. Ask your child's school or ECE to invest in the 'communication currency for kids' shared funding initiative and start referring children to us as one of our Dedicated Referrers in order to unlock all our subsidies and service guarantees for your family and other families
  4. Ask for your child to be referred to both services so your child gets one-on-one help through our subsidised service and your child's Teacher gets support from the Ministry of Education
  5. Wait and see and decide later if you still think your child needs help



​We hear you

If you don't know where else to turn, then you have come to the right place, and your search for someone to hear you and help your child is finally over.  Phone us now on 0508 SPEECHIE, email us at office@speechie.co.nz or fill out the contact form below to book a $40 discovery appointment so you can discuss your concerns directly with us.  We listen.  We conduct screenings and assessments to start getting to the bottom of what is going on.  We provide guidance around the different options for helping your child and we provide support to decide what you would like to happen next to help them. 



​$40 kids discovery appointment

Through our 'communication currency for kids' shared funding initiative, we are building a sustainable, subsidised speech-language therapy service for children.  We are pleased to already be able to offer you a 50% subsidy for your child's first appointment to make it affordable to meet with a registered, independent Speech-Language Therapist and talk to them directly about your child's communication skills. 

​This first appointment is a half-hour discovery appointment intended for hearing your concerns, discussing your child's history, observing some of your child's communication and other behaviour, and then deciding on next steps together.