More than one million Australians have communication difficulties that affects a person’s ability to understand and be understood by others. Speech Pathology Week is an opportunity to highlight the importance of communication access and how speech pathologists work with people in our communities every day to help them communicate with confidence. Mackay HHS speech pathologists… [Read More]

Shane Witherspoon’s recollection of 17 August 2019 is blurry. It was the day before his 57th birthday and he was at home in Moranbah when he started feeling unwell. At the time he didn’t know it, but Shane was having a stroke. A deadly clot had formed in the left-side of his brain starving it… [Read More]

A stranger’s generosity in 2012 will forever be remembered by Deb Donnelly and her family as a life-changing gift.  The gift came in the form a donated kidney, following a diagnosis from her doctor in 2003 that her body was going in to renal failure at the age of 46.   Deb would go on… [Read More]

Four-year-old Evie Kelly has given a thumbs up to the Get Ready! school readiness program after undergoing the eight-week program earlier this year. The free Whitsunday program helps prepare children and their parents for prep by giving the tools to help build language and early reading and writing skills. Evie’s mum, Kate Kelly, signed up… [Read More]