About Puddle Jumpers Speech Pathology

I am a speech pathologist located in Australia. I specialize in literacy and all things phonics, but I also have a background in technology. That makes a perfect match for creating materials on Teachers Pay Teachers and Boom Learning!

As a parent of two boys I found it difficult trying to get access to speech pathology and literacy services for my children.  One of my children struggled with reading as he was not taught the code. I knew that I had to be part of the solution and decided to return to University to become a Speech Pathologist. I have found my passion in literacy and now have a Masters degree in Speech Pathology as well as further specialised training in UFLI Foundations and Sounds-Write - both of which are evidence based synthetic systematic phonics program.   I am passionate about making literacy fun and offering quality resources at low cost through my teachers pay teachers store and boom learning.

I love being able to use a multi sensory approach to teaching literacy. My students love playing games, so I got creative and started making phonics games that follow a systematic synthetic phonics approach. I love this approach as it really beds down a child's knowledge of CVC words and short vowels before moving on to more complex vowel digraphs. I also bring in my knowledge of speech and language and other systematic phonics programs to make it successful for each individual student.