Meet Katia

Hi there! I’m Katia Ringbauer, a Certified Practicing Speech Language Pathologist (CPSP, MSPA) and I absolutely love working with children as my job. I completed a Bachelor of Speech and Hearing Science in 2015 and a Master of Speech and Language Pathology in 2019, both at Macquarie University (Sydney).

I am a dog mum to Wally. In my free-time I love being creative, exploring, hiking, walking to the beach, and practicing yoga.

I provide a fun, engaging and holistic therapy service for children and their parents and offer visits at my clinic, based at the Specialist Suites, as well as home and preschool/school visits. My approach to supporting children with speech, language, communication or feeding and swallowing difficulties is always to develop a connection first.

My areas of interest

I love to help families with feeding during challenging times. I have completed post graduate training and courses to develop my skills in this area. I work with breastfeeding, enteral feeding (e.g. nasogastric tube), oral aversion, paediatric feeding disorder and ARFID.

Speech sound disorders are also of particular interest to me and I have also completed specific training in this area, particularly for children with Childhood Apraxia of Speech.

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Post-graduate learning summary

Speech Sound Disorders

  • DTTC (Diagnosis and Management of Childhood Apraxia of Speech using Dynamic and Temporal Tactile Cueing): Dr Edythe Strand

  • ReST (Rapid Syllable Transition Therapy) for Childhood Apraxia of Speech: Online Learning Portal - University of Sydney

  • PROMPT (Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets) Technique Workshop

  • PROMPT Technique Practicum Project

  • Amy Graham - Match The Method: Selecting The Best Approach for Speech Sound Disorders

Feeding

  • Responsive Feeding Therapy - A family centred approach to paediatric feeding assessment and therapy.  Feeding Therapy Australia (2025)

  • Supporting Oral Feeding in Fragile Infants (SOFFI) (2025)

  • SOS Approach to Feeding (2020)

  • IFFW - Infant Feeding Foundations Workshop: Carly Veness (2022)

  • A-Z of IDDSI Framework and Paediatric Dysphagia workshop: Julie Cichero (2019)

  • Improving the Lives of Adults with Dysphagia workshop: Julie Cichero (2019)

  • Cervical Auscultation for Infants, Children and Adults with Dysphagia: Julie Cichero (2019)

  • VFSS competency (2024)

Language & Literacy

  • More Than Words: The Hanen Program for Parents of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (2019)

  • It Takes Two To Talk: The Hanen Program for Parents of Children with Language Delays (2020)

  • Sounds-Write certification (literacy) (2020)

AAC

  • Language Acquisition Through Motor Planning (LAMP) 2 day workshop (2019)

Play

  • Interplay Masterclass – Trauma informed play therapy: Donna Berry (2022)

  • DIR 201 Practitioner (2025)

Leadership

  • Professional Supervision Training: Michelle Bihary (2022)

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