We offer Private and NDIS Services

Autism Communication:

There is an increasing level of evidence supporting the effectiveness of early intervention for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Supporting families in early detection of ASD allows them to maximise therapy outcomes for their child.

Language Delay:

Research indicates that 20-25% of late talkers enter Kindergarten with below-average language skills[1][2]. With this in mind, it is important to understand children’s language skills. This includes what they understand (receptive) and how they put their thoughts into words (expressive). Because this has a strong correlation with their ease and success with learning how to read.

Lisp:

A lisp most likely has a phonetic origin. This means a child has difficulty physically achieving the correct placement of their lips, tongue and/or jaw. Which results in errors when saying clear, easy to understand speech sounds. Fortunately, this does not mean we cannot fix it.

Literacy Difficulties:

Literacy difficulties often result in ongoing reading and writing difficulties. Children struggling in these areas may also have difficulty with reading comprehension. As well as with writing sentences and stories. Furthermore, as they progress through their education they may have difficulty producing the expected amount of written content. Additionally, struggling to write in the different text types according to their year level curriculum.

Phonological Awareness:

Phonological Awareness is an essential component of school readiness. Most importantly, it describes a child’s ability to recognise, identify and change the sounds in spoken words. These abilities are particularly important for the development of reading, writing and spelling.

Speech Disorders/Delays:

Speech errors are common among children learning to talk. These errors are a normal part of speech development. Which may improve with time and practice. However, for some children, these errors do not go away. Speech disorders are diagnosed if your child is making errors more typical of a younger child. Similarly, if they make errors that do not fit a typical developmental pattern.

Stuttering:

Stuttering is a speech disorder that impacts the flow and smoothness of speech. Stumbling or stuttering over words occasionally is normal for most people. Stuttering becomes more difficult to treat from the school years into adulthood. Early treatment is typically recommended.

Oral Motor Deficit:

As children grow, they learn and master a wide variety of developmental skills, including oral motor skills. Children must learn how to move the muscles that control their jaws, tongues, lips, cheeks and other parts of their mouths. Mastering these oral motor skill helps with speaking and eating.

Child Feeding Disorders:

A child with a feeding disorder may show problems grasping or holding foods with their fingers. They may have difficulties sucking, chewing foods, holding food or drinks in their mouth. They may show persistent on-going aversions to food textures or refuse whole food groups such as refusing all vegetables.

Speech/Language Assessments:

An assessment can be a combination of formal and informal test.

More often than not, we are assessing more than one area of concern. This is because different skill areas often impact one another. For example, when we are assessing speech sounds in a pre-schooler, we will often check the development of preliterate skills.

Bilingual/Multilingual Therapy:

we distinguish ourselves from other services by providing bilingual speech pathology for people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds. we offer bilingual speech pathology options for Mandarin or Indonesian.

Social Skills:

Social skills are vital for establishing and maintaining friendships. As well as holding conversations and interacting with the world around us. Social communication skills are also known as pragmatics. In other words, these are the ‘rules’ that we follow when we talk to others. Examples: Turn taking, misunderstanding others, contributing too much, providing inappropriate responses etc.