{"id":6,"date":"2015-10-10T00:34:35","date_gmt":"2015-10-10T00:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naturalsettings.com.au\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2025-03-18T07:54:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T07:54:33","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/naturalsettings.com.au\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>About Me<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Rowena Olejnik<img class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/naturalsettings.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/38-2-300x255.jpg\" alt=\"This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is 38-2-300x255.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>B.Sp.Path<br \/>\nMSPA<br \/>\nCPSP<br \/>\nUniversity of Newcastle (2003)<br \/>\nHanen Certified Speech Pathologist<\/p>\n<p><strong>Professional Experience<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have been working as a speech pathologist since graduating in 2003 from the University of Newcastle. I began my career at Ageing, Disability &amp; Home Care, working at ADHC for 17 months, I then worked for Firstchance Inc from 2005-2013. My career has allowed me to develop my skills in paediatric communication and swallowing disorders providing services for children of all ages ranging from babies, preschool, transition to school and school age.<\/p>\n<p>I am trained in a number of Hanen programs \u2018It Takes Two to Talk\u2019, \u2018More Than Words\u2019, \u2018Learning Language and Loving It\u2019 and registered to run \u2018Teacher Talk\u2019.<br \/>\nI am a member of Speech Pathology Australia\u00a0 and Early Childhood Intervention Australia. I complete a professional self-regulation program each year.<br \/>\nMy particular interests in speech pathology are language acquisition, speech sound disorders, literacy development, language disorders and augmentative and alternative communication.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional qualifications include:<\/strong><br \/>\nPicture Exchange Communication Systems (PECS)<br \/>\nDIR\/Floortime<br \/>\nKey Word Sign<br \/>\nProloquo2go<br \/>\nSarah Starr feeding workshop<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Me Rowena Olejnik B.Sp.Path MSPA CPSP University of Newcastle (2003) Hanen Certified Speech Pathologist Professional Experience I have been working as a speech pathologist since graduating in 2003 from the University of Newcastle. I began my career at Ageing, Disability &amp; Home Care, working at ADHC for 17 months, I then worked for Firstchance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/front-page.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsettings.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsettings.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsettings.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsettings.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsettings.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsettings.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsettings.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsettings.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}