So many people are struggling.
Children and parents too, are struggling with increased Mental Health challenges.
On this podcast, founder of BackChat Speech Pathology, Olwen Forker talks to a range of experts – including Mums – to discuss causal factors for this. Olwen will share her own experience raising three boys during the last two decades, through some of the biggest changes in society.
This podcast will be open, vulnerable, and very real.
It is going to ruffle feathers, as the experts – Mums - and Olwen, explore these societal changes and how they’ve affected our parenting and our children. Especially when parenting children with additional needs.
Conversations with Olwen is here for every parent – especially our Mums – to take something away to apply, to our own parenting experience.
This is a wonderful story detailing one little one's journey at the BackChat Clinic. Brain development takes time, and early intervention is a journey. In some cases, a very long one.
Miss A has worked incredibly hard to be where she is now. Where she was always meant to be. As has her Mum. It is a team effort. A beautiful story from one little BackChatter; it's a story of grit, determination and insight into her own story and how far she has come.
Recorded and produced at The Podcast Boss podcast studio in Brisbane
2 Jul 2026
BackChat Bites #4S2. Speech Pathology needs to change: BIG NDIS clinics, Research, University Course
BIG clinics. I'm not happy with them. Because it's all about KPIs and money. It's not about the outcomes for children or for the families.
And more and more young Therapists are speaking out. And they are not happy. They don't have quality of life. And it's about EXPERIENCE.
They are just not being equipped to work with the little ones presenting in their clinics. But it goes deeper than that. It goes back to our Universities and what they are teaching. The experience of the Lecturers teaching our students; have they worked clinically? Have they been in a Day Care or a School lately?
Another thought-provoking bite from Olwen.
Recorded and produced at The Podcast Boss podcast studio in Brisbane
1 Jul 2026
The Icelandic Solution
Olwen starts to discuss solutions in this episode, and discusses the ‘Icelandic Solution’ implemented in the 1970’s.
Backed by the latest neuroscience, this solution is genius as it encompasses the ‘whole’ brain and the ‘whole’ child; something Olwen is passionate about.
Her clinical work is not ‘just’ about speech therapy, but about gaining better outcomes through connection, relationships, changing mindsets and helping children to see they can succeed and are a learner.
And for our boys especially that really struggle – building empathy through repeated activities – that directly stimulate now identified neural pathways.
Recorded and produced at The Podcast Boss podcast studio in Brisbane
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