Natalie Barnes

Cape Town, South Africa

Speech Therapist and Audiologist

I’m a Speech Therapist and Audiologist from Johannesburg, South Africa. I’ve been fortunate enough to work in both medical and educational environments in my career, but I have found my passion in pediatric speech therapy and working with children. School-age language and literacy are my specialties, and I love working on auditory processing and phonological awareness in young children. I practice what I preach and am an avid reader and writer as well. I have my own practice, but I also work on-site at several schools and am always happy and willing to help where I can. Please feel free to contact me at any time!

Natalie Barnes's Articles
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Setting Realistic Therapy Goals

This is especially true if you are collaborating with your child’s speech therapist, as it will allow you to monitor your child closely so that…

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Help Your Child Combine Words to Make Sentences

In order for this communication to develop, your child needs to be able to say individual words to build up their vocabulary. It’s only once…

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Bilingual Therapy and How Speech Blubs Can Help

Being a Speech Therapist in South Africa, I’ve had to overcome many challenges when providing therapy to almost every child I’ve seen. South Africa has…

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Household Activities as Speech Therapy: Fruit Salad

At-home speech therapy activities? What does this mean exactly? When can you do it at home, and what activities are best? Does cooking with children count?…

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Turn Household Activities into Speech Therapy: Bathtime

Everyday household tasks or chores can become productive therapy opportunities if you know how to utilize them. For this blog post, I’m going to show…

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Smart Screen Time for Super Speech Skills

After only a couple of unguided screen time interactions, they find themselves living in a digital fantasy, unable to make meaningful connections with other people, and…

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ADHD and Speech Development

Don’t panic! ADHD is a fairly common problem, and there is plenty of help for you out there – including Speech Blubs and this article. …

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R Sound Speech Therapy Ideas for Home

In fact, the R sound can be so tricky to pronounce that it is one of the last sounds to be mastered. Kids begin to…

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“Baby Talk,” Helpful or a Hindrance?

The reason for this debate, and all the ongoing research, is that speech and language are crucial skills that children begin to learn from infancy….