Speech & Language Therapy
Improve your child’s communication and language skills.
Speech & Language Therapy
Being able to communicate effectively affects so many aspects in a child’s life. It’s easier for them to understand other people and for you as a parent to understand them.
Speech Sounds
Receptive and Expressive Language
Social Communication
Early Communication Skills
Literacy - Reading, Spelling and Writing
What is Speech & Language Therapy?
Speech and Language Therapy is an intervention service that focuses on improving a child’s speech and abilities to understand and express language, including non-verbal communication.
Speech Therapy also helps children with language-related learning issues such as listening, reading & writing.
What Does Speech & Language Therapy Help You With?
Speech Sounds
A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound that distinguishes one word from another. Since we cannot write sounds, we use letters to represent or stand for the sounds.
Social Communication
Social communication refers to the emergence of verbal and non-verbal skills, social interaction, and social cognition. It is viewed as a form of communication that is ‘unwritten’ and that people seem to ‘just know’.
Language - Receptive & Expressive
Receptive communication is the process of receiving and understanding a message from another person. It can be thought of as the input. Expressive communication is a message to another person. It is the means by which feelings, wants, likes, dislikes, comments, and intents are expressed. Young children need to understand language before they can express it.
Early Communication Skills
Infants have many needs, and they are born with ways to let you know what they are. Early communication with infants is all about recognising and responding to their needs. Long before babies can talk, they can communicate with the people in their lives.
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