Danielle Ryan, founder of Little Language, knew she wanted to become a speech-language pathologist in high school. As her appreciation and empathy for people facing communication challenges grew through her own experiences living, working and going to school in various non-English speaking countries, including a rewarding six months volunteering in South America, she knew it was the perfect choice. She founded Little Language after moving back to the Gold Coast in January 2015. She teamed up with Little Language SLP Yvonne Lin in July 2020 to create Little Language Pty Ltd. 

 

Danielle has almost 20 years experience as a private practitioner with a particular interest in working with children with speech, language, literacy and orofacial myofunctional difficulties, and continues to be passionate and excited about helping these children reach their communication potential. After earning her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, Danielle went on to complete a Masters in Speech Pathology Studies. Her group research paper was published in Disability and Rehabilitation. Danielle engages in continual professional development, has enjoyed roles as a sessional staff member and clinical educator for Master of Speech Pathology students at Griffith University,  and has additional certification in: 

 

• It Takes Two to Talk  The Hanen Program® for Parents of Children with Language Delays      

• Visualizing and Verbalizing for Language Comprehension and Thinking® (V/V®) -- Lindamood-Bell

• The Writing Road to Reading©  (The Spalding Method) - Spalding Education International

• Learn to Play  A practical program to develop a child’s imaginative play - Karen Stagnitti

• Orofacial Myofunctional Disorders

• Sounds~Write  A very highly structured, multi-sensory, sythetic phonics programme

• Talk4Writing An oral language to reading to writing literacy method

• Key Word Sign  The use of manual signs and natural gesture to support communication

• The Lidcombe Program A behavioural treatment for children who stutter

 

Our mission at Little Language is to provide professional, collaborative, and dynamic speech therapy on the Gold Coast to children of all ages with speech, language, literacy, and orofacial myology difficulties. Danielle looks forward to helping your child find their roar!