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Taking turns with music can be a fun and natural way to support a child’s early communication skills. Songs, actions and familiar routines create repeated opportunities for children to listen, respond, anticipate what comes next and participate in back-and-forth interactions.
Turn-taking is an important foundation for communication because conversations involve sharing attention and giving another person an opportunity to respond. Children can begin developing these skills before they use spoken words, through sounds, movements, gestures, eye gaze or other forms of communication.
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Evett is Clinical Director of Innerlink Therapy and a Certified Practising Speech Pathologist with extensive experience supporting children and adults across a range of settings. Her areas of interest include communication, learning, feeding and swallowing, autism, developmental disabilities and augmentative and alternative communication (AAC).
Evett holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Speech Pathology from the University of Sydney and a Graduate Certificate in Dysphagia from La Trobe University. She also provides external clinical supervision to speech pathologists and speaks Lebanese Arabic, supporting communication with Arabic-speaking clients and families.
Outside the clinic, Evett enjoys spending time with her rescue dogs and caring for her flock of chickens.