Speech, Language and Communication

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Speech and Language Therapy consists of assessments and therapy services for the following areas of communication:

• Articulation and Phonology: production and the processes involved in the production of speech sounds appropriate to the child's chronological age

• Receptive Language Skills:  understanding of language and the skills involved in following directions, instructions with conjunctions, clauses and comprehension of the language

• Expressive Language Skills: the ability to speak in phrases, sentences using age appropriate and linguistically appropriate vocabulary

• Socio-Pragmatic Skills: the ability to understand cues, facial expressions, body language, to initiate and undertake topic maintenance, to  interact using appropriate social strategies

Our Speech and Language Therapy packages include the following:

• Receptive Language Development

• Expressive Language Development

• Articulation

• Voice 

• Verbal Apraxia

• Fluency and Stammering

• Socio-Pragmatic Skills

• Dysphagia

• Alternative and Augmentative Communication Systems

• Development of Home or School based program

• Consultation with Parent/Guardian, School or Nursery professionals

• Individual Therapy Sessions

• Group Therapy Sessions, if there are clients available

• School and Parent Training Programs

• School provision for delivery of services