Welcome to Echo Speech
Creating Confident Communicators:
One Echo at a Time
At Echo Speech, we believe communication should be fun, empowering, and full of laughter.
Based in beautiful Port Stephens, we’ve been helping children and their families around the Bay find their voices since 2010.
Our passionate team of speech pathologists use play-based, evidence-informed therapy to help kids grow in confidence while having a great time.
From early intervention and literacy to feeding and language skills, we’re here to support every milestone — celebrating every giggle, every sound, and every little echo along the way.
Speech Therapy
Echo Speech Pathologists support families of children with difficulties in communication around the beautiful Port Stephens area.
Assessments
A speech pathology assessment can identify difficulties in your child’s communication and set them on the right path to reaching their potential.
Early Intervention
Early support makes a big difference — we help little ones build strong communication skills right from the start.
Feeding & Swallowing
Our feeding therapy supports children and adults with eating or swallowing difficulties to build positive, confident mealtime experiences.
DIR Floortime
We follow your child’s lead to grow connection, communication, and emotional development through warm, playful, relationship-based therapy.
School Literacy
Echo Speech has collaborative relationships with many schools across Port Stephens. You’ll often see our therapists lugging our bags of tricks around the school – be sure to say hi!
Why your child might need our services
At Echo Speech, we believe every child deserves the chance to thrive in their communication journey — and every parent, caregiver, and teacher deserves the tools to help them get there. Since 2010, our mission has been to make speech therapy supportive, collaborative, and full of fun.
Our values shape everything we do — from the way we connect with families to how we celebrate every little win. We value kindness, teamwork, playfulness, and growth, creating a space where children feel safe, confident, and excited to learn.
When you choose Echo Speech, you’re not just choosing therapy — you’re joining a community that listens, encourages, and cheers for every milestone (and every giggle) along the way.
Face to Face
Small Groups
School Visits
Telehealth
Who we work with
Children
We support children from early years through primary school to build strong communication foundations. Using play-based, evidence-informed therapy, we help children develop speech, language, literacy, feeding, and social communication skills — always celebrating progress in a fun, supportive way.
Adolescents
We work with adolescents to support communication, literacy, and confidence during the important teenage years. Our therapy is respectful, collaborative, and strengths-based, helping young people develop the skills they need for learning, friendships, and everyday life.
Schools
We partner with schools and educators to support students in the classroom and beyond. This includes assessments, collaborative goal-setting, and practical strategies to support communication, language, and literacy within educational settings.
How to get started
Join the Waitlist
Give us a call or complete our quick online intake form. This helps us get to know your child and match you with the right clinician.
Accept Your Appointment
When a spot becomes available (around 10 weeks), we’ll call you with an appointment time. If it suits you, we’ll lock it in and officially welcome you to Echo Speech!
Fill Out the Questionnaire
We’ll send a short questionnaire to collect your child’s developmental and medical history. This helps us tailor your first session so we can make the most of our time together.
What to bring
We’ll email everything you need to know ahead of your appointment — what to bring, where to go, and how to help your child feel comfortable and excited for their first visit.
Come Visit Us
Meet Nikki
BSpPath | Director of Echo Speech
Nicole Mackenzie is an experienced speech pathologist who has been working in the field for over 20 years. She received her Bachelor of Speech Pathology from the University of Queensland in 2001, and has been making a positive impact on the lives of her clients ever since.
After working in Ireland and England, Nikki founded Echo Speech in 2010, a successful and highly regarded practice that provides a range of speech pathology services to paediatric clients. As the director of the practice, Nikki is dedicated to ensuring that her team is able to provide the highest quality care to every client who walks through their doors.
In her free time, Nikki can be found either with her nose in a book, her toes in the sand, or both!
Why choose Echo Speech?
At Echo Speech, we believe every child deserves the chance to thrive in their communication journey — and every parent, caregiver, and teacher deserves the tools to help them get there. Since 2010, our mission has been to make speech therapy supportive, collaborative, and full of fun.
Our values shape everything we do — from the way we connect with families to how we celebrate every little win. We value kindness, teamwork, playfulness, and growth, creating a space where children feel safe, confident, and excited to learn.
When you choose Echo Speech, you’re not just choosing therapy — you’re joining a community that listens, encourages, and cheers for every milestone (and every giggle) along the way.
Connect
We cultivate strong connections between clinicians and the families we work with, as well as with our team, so that we can provide a service built on trust and communication. Connections are essential to growth and development and it’s our number one priority when we begin working with children.
Care
Speech pathology is a profession with an emphasis on care. We dedicate ourselves and go the extra mile because we care about your child. It’s what drives us to do our best.
Communicate
Our whole business revolves around communication. We pride ourselves in how we communicate with the client and with each other.
Courage
The team at Echo Speech all have the courage to start, to progress and to try new things. We’re constantly chasing our best outcomes and we’re not afraid to take risks to reach our goals.