This is specialised intervention for children aged 3 -5 years. They require pre-linguistic skills such as turn-taking, eye-contact, joint-attention, development of play, improving attention skills to learn to talk and engage with their ever-changing environments.
Assisting your child to achieve their developmental communication milestones such as babbling and first words.
Receptive language
Children may struggle with understanding and following instructions and answering questions appropriately.
Expressive language
Children may present with grammatically incomplete sentences, reduced vocabulary and poor narrative retell.
Learning difficulties
Children may struggle to learn and understand new skills compared to typically developing children e.g. learning to read and write.
Differential diagnosis with individualised treatment provided to assist children with delayed speech sound development and are difficult to understand.
Children with reading difficulties, poor phonological awareness, poor comprehension of written texts and poor spelling skills.
Children who struggle to create and maintain relationships, read non-verbal cues, understand and apply social norms.
• Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Global Developmental Disorder
• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
• Down Syndrome
• Cerebral Palsy
People who struggle to eat and drink safely. They may cough, choke, have recurring chest infections, and have reduced enjoyment during mealtimes.
Difficulties with comprehension and expression including being unable to express daily needs, understand instructions and answer questions appropriately, and understand humour.
Difficulties in pronouncing sounds and words, having unclear speech or others find it difficult to understand you.
Difficulties in pronouncing sounds and words, having unclear speech or others find it difficult to understand you.
• Aphasia
• Dementia
• Stroke
• Traumatic Brain injury/Acquired brain injury
• Parkinson’s Disease
• Huntington’s disease