What is Speech Therapy?

What is Speech Therapy?

Paediatric speech therapy involves the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of communication delays in children aged 0-18 years of age.

Speech pathologists are trained to work with children experiencing difficulties with their receptive language, expressive language, speech and articulation, fluency, social communication, reading, and writing.

Speech pathologists use the latest research to provide evidence-based, family-centred, and age-appropriate therapy to allow children to reach their communication potential.

 

Conditions that we treat

Conditions that we treat

• Developmental Language Disorder

• Speech Sound Disorders

• Motor Speech Disorders e.g. stutter, childhood apraxia of speech (CAS), dysarthria

• Learning Impairments e.g. dyslexia, dysgraphia

• Late talkers

• Communication difficulties associated with other diagnoses e.g. Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) – social communication skills

Specialised Intervention Approaches:

• Hanen’s “It Takes Two to Talk”

• Lidcombe Program

• Syllable Timed Speech

• Little Learners Love Literacy

• Talk for Writing