Services for Children & Teens
We offer a range of speech therapy services for children, including assessment, diagnosis and treatment for various speech disorders, language disorders and communication difficulties. We also provide early intervention services for infants and toddlers.
We provide support for children & teens aged 12-months to 18-years in the following areas:
Early childhood
- Late talking and early language development (building vocabulary, sentence skills and understanding)
- Speech sound development - helping children produce sounds clearly
- Play and social communication (turn‑taking, joint attention, pretend play and early interaction skills)
- Stuttering (supporting fluency in young children)
- Feeding and early mealtime skills (breast/bottle feeding, transitioning to solids and sensory‑based feeding challenges)
- Augmentative & Alternative Communication (AAC) - introducing communication supports for children with limited speech
School‑age children
- Speech clarity (articulation, phonological patterns, motor speech)
- Language for learning (comprehension, vocabulary, grammar, following instructions)
- Literacy foundations (phonemic & phonological awareness, reading, spelling, written expression)
- Social communication (friendships, conversation, perspective‑taking, problem‑solving)
- Executive functioning (organisation, planning, working memory, classroom participation)
- Fluency and voice (stuttering support and healthy voice use)
- AAC and assistive technology to support communication across home and school
- Academic language (essays, note‑taking, summarising and subject‑specific vocabulary)
- Social communication and self‑advocacy to support navigating friendships, conflict, online communication and expressing needs
- Executive functioning for independence (planning, time management, study skills)
- Fluency and voice (ongoing support for stuttering or voice changes)
- Transition skills (communication for work experience, interviews and community participation for older teens and young adults)