Supporting Speech, Language and Fluency (i.e. Stuttering) Skill Difficulties

In our practice we support children with difficulties in the following areas:
  •  speaking clearly and speech production
  • ​ speech fluency (i.e. stuttering)
  • ​ difficulties listening, attending, processing and understanding instructions
  • ​difficulties understanding and using concepts (e.g. describing words like big, little, tall, colour concepts,  position word concepts like in, under, behind, between)
  • ​ not babbling and/or late talking
  • ​ difficulties using words or putting words together to make sentences  
  •  difficulties using grammar (e.g. leave off word endings like plural 's' such as cats, confuse pronoun use such as "Me do it" instead of 'I will do it.")
  •  word finding difficulties
  • ​ expressive vocabulary difficulties
  • ​difficulties expressing what has happened or telling about experiences
  • difficulties explaining something clearly and in the correct sequence of events
  • ​difficulties with narrative skills, such as retelling a story
Early identification and intervention is essential to support children with communication difficulties and to reduce the everyday frustration they experience due to frequent breakdowns in communication.  There are many ways speech pathologists work with a child, their family and child care workers or teachers to help strengthen a child's communication skills. If your child is having difficulties in one or more of these areas, and you're concerned please give me a call so we can have a chat and determine an individualised plan to help your child overcome the areas he/she is having difficulties in.
Research supports the importance of 'early intervention'.  Acting early means we can support your child so they can achieve the foundation skills needed for maximising their learning and communication skills.