SPEECH PATHOLOGY
Speech Pathology aims to support children to improve their verbal language and communication skills. We provide interventions for children that experience difficulties in these areas and use evidence-based treatments to address these difficulties. We work alongside you and your child to help them achieve their goals.
Speech Pathologists can provide interventions for:
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Speech and sound - for example, combining sounds in words.
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Language development – understanding and speaking.
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Literacy – including reading, writing, and spelling.
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Practical language and social skills – making friends and social interactions.
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Feeding and swallowing difficulties – trouble coordinating sucking and swallowing, limited food choices etc.
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Oro-motor skills – Movement and muscle tone in the jaw, cheeks, lip, and tongue as well as structure of the palate, teeth, and tonsils.
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Fluency for example stuttering or cluttering.
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Voice - difficulties with vocal quality, pitch and loudness, poor vocal hygiene or vocal nodules
