For people supporting children with speech challenges

Feel more confident supporting children’s speech and language needs - Every. Single. Month.

Are you a primary school teacher or speech-language therapist who works with children experiencing speech and language challenges?

Or the parent or caregiver of a child who has multiple additional needs?

If you wish you had:

✅ Clear, practical strategies you could use straight away

✅ Support from experienced professionals to answer your questions

✅ Ongoing learning that fits into your busy schedule

✅ A community of like-minded people who get it

You’re in the right place.

🔑 What You Get as a Member:

🧠 Monthly Guest Expert Workshops

Every month, hear from a specialist guest speaker on a topic that complements speech and communication. From autism and AAC to apraxia of speech and hearing differences - you’ll be learning from the best in their field, all year long 🐑

🗂️ Instant Access to 2 Growing Handout Bundles

• The Speech Sound Bundle

• The Language Bundle

Together valued at $50 NZD - yours to keep.

These bundles are full of ready-to-use, beautifully designed handouts and cheat sheets to support your planning and practice.

👩‍🏫 Access to Polly Newton, SLT

Have questions about tricky cases, specific goals, or what to try next? Ask Polly Newton - a qualified and experienced Speech Language Therapist and Expert Adviser on Speech Sound Disorders and receive a personal response.

📥 Early Access to Articles, Handouts & Courses

Be the first to receive brand new content designed to support your work with children who have speech needs.

💬 Suggest Topics & Shape the Content

Your voice matters here. Suggest future training topics or specific questions you’d love to see covered. This membership grows with you.

🤝 A Supportive Community

You’ll be joining a warm, welcoming group of professionals who are navigating similar challenges and sharing real-life wins and wisdom.

✅ Perfect For:

• Primary school teachers supporting students with speech delays or communication disorders

• Educators and professionals who want to learn more and do more - without the overwhelm

• Speech Language Therapists seeking mentorship, resources, and ideas

• Parents of children with multiple communication challenges
  

💵 Membership Details

• $200 NZD / year (single payment) PRICE INCREASES 31 JANUARY 2026. Lock in 2025 prices for the duration of your membership.

• Membership access lasts for 12 months from purchase - option to renew annually at the price you signed up

• Includes instant access to all member content + monthly expert workshops

• Speech Teacher Membership is included in all Speech Sound Courses, the Speech Support Membership and the Supervision Membership

🎉 Join Today and Start Accessing:

✅ 2 growing handout bundles for speech and language

✅ This month’s guest expert training

✅ additional monthly guest expert trainings across the year

✅ All pre-recorded guest-expert workshops

✅ Your direct line to Polly Newton, Speech Language Therapist

✅ A supportive community you’ll love being part of

Join now and feel supported and inspired, with the tools to make a real difference in the speech and communication outcomes of the children you care about.

Supervision and professional development that speaks your language

Support, direction and growth, all in one place

Are you a Speech-Language Therapist or Teacher wanting supervision and professional development that supports and encourages you to learn, improve and grow?

Would you love to have access to a space where you feel supported, encouraged, and given the right kind of input - whether that’s space to reflect, process, plan, or someone to say “Here’s what I’d do."

Would you GIVE YOUR FIRST-BORN CHILD for a growing library of workshops, full of the evidence-based knowledge and interventions that you need to do your job? All presented in an easy to consume and understand way, that're right there when you need them? (It's cool, I'll give your baby back; all you have to do is guess my name...)

Would you SELL YOUR SOUL to be regularly inspired, excited to try new things and fall back in love with your profession all over again? (Sign here 😈)

This is your all-in-one supervision and professional development package, designed for therapists and educators who live and work in the real world, want to grow in skill and confidence - and feel supported while you do it.

No more scrambling for supervision hours, or attending random workshops to make up your CPD requirements. Instead, you'll join a safe and supportive community, with the sole purpose of helping you reflect, learn, increase your skills and grow - both as a person and a practitioner.

✅ Less than $50/week for all your supervision and professional needs for the year 🎉

By joining, you'll receive 12 months of:

🧠 1:1 Supervision with Polly Newton

• Eight one-hour 1:1 supervision sessions across the year, to use when you need them.

• Each session is tailored to what you need at the time:

  • Reflective practice when you’re working through something

  • Straight-up guidance, direction and answers, when that’s what you need most

  • A place to decompress and plan for best-case scenarios and hoped-for outcomes

  • A place where you'll be kindly, respectfully and purposefully challenged

  • The things you may not have fully noticed or seen, will be revealed and brought out into the light, while you're skillfully supported to process them

  • Supervision that’s flexible, responsive, and practical

🤝 Peer supervision sessions

• Four peer supervision sessions (every 3 months)

• Using the Coaching & Mentoring New Zealand peer supervision framework

• A structured, safe, and encouraging space to connect, share, learn, and reflect with like-minded therapists and education professionals

📚 Access to my digital resources

• Everything in the Speech Teacher Membership and the Speech Support Membership

• The choice to join all upcoming workshops live, plus access to the recordings - whatever works best for you at the time

• Instant access to all pre-recorded trainings, bite-sized workshops, handouts, and practical tools - covering:

  • Speech Sound Disorders

  • Developmental Language Disorder

  • AAC, Childhood Apraxia of Speech, Childhood Dysarthria

  • Autism, Down Syndrome, hearing differences, cleft lip and palate

  • Pre-literacy skills, phonological awareness, structured literacy

  • Guest Expert speakers

  • And so much more

🎁 Bonus webinar of your choice

• Limited time signing bonus

• Receive a webinar of your choice, if you sign up this week

• Choose between Teach Speech in the Classroom or Early Childhood Centre. You can choose to receive it yourself, gift it to your child's Teacher, or keep the bonus in your pocket, for when I bring out something new

✅ Your CPD + supervision covered

✔️ All your professional supervision requirements for the year

✔️ All your professional development hours

✔️ All in one place, with support you’ll actually look forward to

👋 Meet your supervisor

Kia ora, I'm Polly Newton - qualified and highly experienced Speech-Language Therapist, professionally trained supervisor, workshop facilitator, creator and founder of Speech Teacher.

👄 I’m currently the Expert Adviser for Speech Sound Disorders for the New Zealand Speech-Language Therapist's Association (NZSTA).

👩🏽‍🎨 I keep up with best practice and also help shape it.

🙌 I bring 19+ years direct, hands-on experience across:

• The Ministry of Education

• Child Development Services

• Satellite classrooms

• Community-based grass-roots language initiatives

• Accident Compensation Corporation

• Disability

• Justice

• Creating and facilitating workshops for parents and professionals

• Supporting Speech Language Therapy Students with placements

• 13+ years in Private Practice as an owner operator

• Innovative and creative modes of service delivery, including video courses, memberships, digital downloads, webinars, teletherapy, blog posts

I’m trained in both supervision skills for health and social service professionals and the peer supervision framework, through Coaching and Mentoring New Zealand.

My approach is down-to-earth, collaborative and practical - because supervision should leave you feeling clearer, more confident, and better equipped to support those you work with and serve.

💬 What it's like working with me

Supervision with me feels like sitting in a cafe with someone who's "Been there, man," cares deeply (sometimes tooo much,) doesn't mind/can't help being honest and occassionally says DEEPLY inappropriate things (I have low impulse control).

I'll hide the most weird, goofy and deranged parts of myself, until it's too late and you're trapped... because you enjoy my company and respect my guidance, knowledge and direction too much 😈

Despite the above, I'm deeply committed to evidence-based practice, having in-depth, rounded knowledge of the interventions out there and choosing the intervention to fit the child, their situation, their presenting challenges and temperament.

Despite appearances, I am ACTUALLY highly experienced and qualified in supervision 😅. I was expected to start supervising new graduate SLTs one year after graduating in my first professional job as a SLT 😱 I've got that iron-clad combination of knowledge and skills learned via baptism by fire, lengthy and varied experience and professional training.

In a supervision session we might reflect, we might rage, we might laugh, we might problem-solve (and solve all the world's problems while we're at it,) we might commiserate about paperwork 😓

But every time, we will move you forward in your practice, knowledge and confidence, so you become an incrementally better clinician.

You can expect

🎉 Increased confidence in your clinical decision-making.

🎉 Growth through reflection, guidance, and exposure to new ideas and approaches.

🎉 Clarity and a plan to move forward, when you feel stuck or uncertain about next steps.

🎉 Practical ways to make your work work for you, to counteract stress and burnout.

🎉 Support from someone who understands the reality, conflicts and pressures of frontline work.

🎉 A supervisor who has your back and won't judge you (because I've already made FAR worse and MANY more mistakes than you. Otherwise, I'd SO be judging you HAAAAARRRRDDDD.)

🎉 A supervisor who will get righteously ENRAGED on your behalf if anyone treats you poorly (blame the justice sensitivity, peri-menopause or lack of impulse control. At this point IDK which one causes it 😬)

🎯 Is this for you?

This package is a great fit if:

✔️ You’re a new-graduate Speech Language Therapist working towards full NZSTA membership, figuring out how to shift into "decision-maker" mode and how to make the most ethical and beneficial choices, within the constraints of your employment and capacity.

✔️ You're an early-career therapist needing solid, grounded support, inspiration and expansion.

✔️ You've newly moved into the education field, want to know more about and ensure you're selecting appropriate evidence-based interventions and could do with a few extra tricks of the trade for your kete.

✔️ You're returning to practice/completing the NZSTA return to practice framework, after a period away from working as a Speech Language Therapist.

✔️ You’re working independently or in isolation and want connection, support and someone to check things with and hear new ideas.

✔️You’re juggling a complex and varied caseload and want a second brain who understands the realities and nuances of your work, to bounce ideas off and decompress with.

✔️ You're a Teacher with a high number of students in your classroom with communication challenges and not enough support to know how to realistically help them, within your role and time constraints.

✔️ You're a Teacher or Specialist Teacher with a special interest in and/or learning goals around speech, language and communication.

✔️ You would love on-demand access to a growing bank of workshops and resources to refer to as needed, to extend your knowledge-base.

✔️ You want a supervisor with extensive and varied experience, both generalist and specialist knowledge, practical skills and a realistic approach.

✔️ You desire a supervisor who will hear, understand and respect your situation and perspective, challenge you when needed, and arm you with the knowledge, skills and confidence to thrive in your work

🗯 If this is what you're looking for, then let’s talk!

💵 You'll receive

Here's everything you'll receive and what you'd pay if you purchased everything individually, so you can see you're getting your money's worth (love a good bargain, LOVE EM).

✔️ Eight 1:1 supervision sessions ($1,200 value)

✔️ Four peer supervision sessions ($500 value)

✔️ Speech Teacher & Speech Support Memberships, workshops & resources ($1,700 value)

✔️ Two bonus growing handout bundles - yours to keep ($50 value)

✔️ Bonus webinar of your choice ($100 value)

💰Over $3,500 worth of value, for less than $50 a week

🤝 Choose your plan

✅ Pay upfront – best value

$2,500 NZD/year

→ One payment for 12 months of supervision, support, and professional development

→ Get two months free access when you pay upfront

→ Less than $50/week for all your supervision and professional needs for the year

✅ Pay monthly

$250 NZD/month

→ Spread the cost over 12 months (12-month commitment applies)

→ Less than $60/week, or around one covfefe [sic] a day

🙌 Join, and know your supervision and professional development needs will be covered for the year and are on hand, right when you need them.

❗️If you have ever purchased a Speech Teacher product, or received paid supervision from Polly and would like to join, get in contact for your personal discount voucher. Your discount will reflect what you've previously spent on any products or supervision.

🤝 Employer paying? Get in touch and I'll make the process seamless.

Ready to feel supported, confident, skilled, and seen in your practice?

👉 Claim your place in the space that exists to support you professionally

Strictly limited to 10 places.

Enrol this week and receive a bonus webinar ($100 value.)

Lock in 2025 prices for the full term of your membership.

Supervision and professional development that's there for you when you need it, meets you where you are and supports you to learn, grow and expand.