Hi there!

Taking Flight Speech, Language and Literacy offers paediatric mobile services to home, school and community settings in Western Melbourne and Inner Melbourne suburbs. We also offer telehealth to all of our clients, including those in regional Victoria and NSW. All kids, regardless of location, deserve to build the skills, knowledge and confidence that they need to be taking flight and unlocking their full potential!

We are all about celebrating strengths and offering integrated, evidence-based and data-informed support. This integrated support may be using everyday routines in your home, or using common languages (Australian Curriculum, Early Years Framework, ICF) to align our services to your educational setting. We’re not about doing ‘extra’ work!

We have a strong commitment to designing and advocating supports for the inclusion of all children and young adults with barriers to their learning. A holistic and transparent service delivery is given, where regular contact is made with all people around the client. This contact extends from parent(s)/caregiver(s) to other professionals, ensuring that the student needs are met and progress to the desired outcome.

Taking Flight Speech, Language and Literacy are:

  • Educational speech pathologists, with clients typically aged between 4 and 18 years of age

  • Highly competent in areas of speech sound production, oral language (receptive and expressive language), literacy (reading, spelling and writing), social skills (pragmatic language), emotional regulation and inclusive education

  • Medicare registered, for Medicare rebates (e.g. Chronic Disease Management plans)

  • Services eligible for private health rebates with extras cover; rebates varying between private health funds

  • Able to support self-managed and plan-managed NDIS clients

  • More specific information about what we can offer at Our Services.

Meet who’s behind Taking Flight Speech, Language and Literacy

  • Founder and Certified Practising Speech Pathologist (CPSP)

    Clinton McQueen is an experienced and Certified Practising Speech Pathologist, with a career spanning across both the education sector and clinical settings.

    Clinton has an in-depth understanding of student learning to initiate, manage and review individual student and small group cases. This has derived from extensive public, specialist and independent school experience, and he is trained in several evidence-based approaches and programs - from MultiLit to Sounds Write to Talk4Writing.

    Vast project management experience has also been had. At a school-level, this has involved identifying and designing appropriate responses to advance student language and literacy learning. At a State-level, this has involved advising with respect to the newly introduced Disability Inclusion funding model within public schools, and jointly producing Department of Education and Training Inclusive Classrooms catalogue courses for professionals working with students with diverse learning needs.

    Overall, Clinton’s career has crafted a strong passion toward students’ overall learning, language and literacy success, and he takes immense pride in actively contributing to this.

    Further details of Clinton’s career can be found at https://www.linkedin.com/in/clintonmcqueen/

    CREDENTIALS:

    ·        Bachelor of Speech Pathology, Flinders University

    ·        Master of Literacy Education, The University of Melbourne

    ·        Diploma of Leadership and Management, Swinburne University of Technology

    ·        Certified Practising Speech Pathologist (CPSP), Speech Pathology Australia

    ·        Member of Speech Pathology Australia (MSPA)

    ·       Member of Learning Difficulties Australia