Children's
Therapy
Center
​Contact Us: 0410 341 531
About Us
At SOS Therapy and Learning Centre we recognise that each client has an individual learning style, which needs to be respected and supported. Individuals learn best when they are in a positive environment that is fun, nurturing, safe and allows them to maintain a calm and alert level of arousal in order to learn. SOS Therapy and Learning Centre - Speech Pathology provides evidence based speech pathology assessment, therapy and advocacy for children and adults with speech, language, communication, stuttering and literacy difficulties. Speech therapy services are holistic, individual differences and strengths based, using best practices that creates a safe, affirming space to learn. We use best practices, evidence based resources and believe passionately in the importance of play based learning and using movement across the lifespan. SOS Therapy and Learning Centre is committed to supporting clients and parents with information, resources, advice and techniques to help them to assist and encourage skill development at home, and to be the best possible advocate for their child or family members.
Clare Catmore is a Certified Practicing Speech Pathologist, Member of Speech Pathology Australia, registered with Medicare and all Private Health funds. Clare is a member of a number of professional associations, and a Department of Veteran's Affairs provider. Clare accepts Medicare ‘Chronic Disease Management Plans’ (CDMP), the ‘Helping Children With Autism’ Medicare Package and ‘Indigenous Primary Health Plans’. Whilst Clare is not NDIS registered she does see plan and self managed NDIS participants. Clare holds ethical concerns about the use of different fee structures based on the funding clients may have and her fees remain the same for all clients. The NDIS Fee Schedule is not used and travel is charged at the ATO cents per kilometre rate, not hourly therapy fee. Clare does not endorse charging additional time (15 minutes) for writing progress notes and session planning as this has always been included in the session fee.
Our Services
We provide assessment and intervention for both children and adults with speech, language and literacy difficulties, including:
-
Acquired and developmental language disorders
-
Articulation/speech sound difficulties and/or disorders
-
Stuttering
-
Voice Impairments
-
Delayed language development
-
Auditory processing and CAPD
-
Literacy difficulties
-
Comprehension
-
Intellectual Disability
-
Learning disorders such as Dyslexia and Developmental Language Disorder
Our Mission
Our mission is to identify and support each client’s individual learning style, to foster a lifelong love of learning. We don’t expect children to fit into a particular pattern of learning, rather we provide the flexibility to bend to meet the individual needs of the child.
Here to Serve You
Clare Catmore BSc(Sp&HSc) CPSP
Owner & Principal Speech Pathologist
Clare Catmore is a Certified Practising Speech Pathologist, who graduated from Curtin University with Distinction in 2002 (Bachelor of Science, Speech and Hearing Science). Clare has 23 years experience as a Certified Practising Speech Pathologist, 19 of these in the private sector, working with children, adults and people with disabilities.
Clare continues to maintain best practice through participation in the Speech Pathology Australia Professional Self Regulation Program, a commitment she believes is essential due to continual advances in our understanding of the brain, development, learning and skill mastery, and of course as a result, advances in the field of speech pathology.
​
Clare is mother to three sons aged 28, 19 and 15, and has a 2 and a half year old granddaughter. Clare is a proactive and involved parent and grandparent (called ‘Addy’ by her 1st grandchild) who continues to research child development, behaviour, learning and evidence-based practice in order to support both her children and her clients' growth and development.
SOS Therapy and Learning Centre's owner and Principal Speech Pathologist, Clare Catmore’s specialist qualifications and training are far too extensive to list as she has heavily invested in continuing professional development throughout her 23 year career. Just some of Clare’s additional qualifications include being HANEN Certified, Lee Silverman Voice Treatment Certified, both Intro and Bridging Levels of PROMPT Training, Sounds~Write, Talk For Writing and Talk For Writing Tier 3 Remediation trained, VoiceCraft, DIR Floor Time, Lidcombe Consortium trained, Cervical Auscultation Trained, and numerous training events covering Auditory Processing, Executive Functions, Working Memory, School Aged Stuttering, Autism Spectrum Disorder Assessment and Therapy updates, and Positive Behaviour Support.
Clare has extensive knowledge stemming from 23 years of ongoing professional development in the neuroscience of reading, specific learning disorders, including Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, Dyscalculia and Developmental Language Disorder, Auditory Processing, Central Auditory Processing Disorder, Executive Functions, Working Memory, stuttering across the lifespan and Sensory Processing Disorder. Additionally, Clare has been involved in the development and delivery of group programs for early language stimulation, aphasia therapy support, social skills for autistic teens, mainstream class support for autistic students, parent and teacher support programs and public seminars on Parkinson’s Disease and Vocal Health for Teachers.
SOS Therapy and Learning Centre was developed based on the self-regulation framework developed by Dr Stuart Shanker (and now implemented in the vast majority of Canadian schools) that supported and complimented Clare's unique approach to providing holistic, individualised and highly skilled diagnostic assessment and clinical therapy services.
​
Following attendance at the 3rd June 2025 rollout of ‘The new National Framework’; for Improving the Assessment of Functioning for all Children Webinar, we confirm with great pride that SOS Therapy and Learning Centre has been consistently providing assessment to children that already complies with ‘The new National Framework’ Guidelines, since opening our Cloverdale WA centre in July 2014.