Our dedicated team of Speech Pathologists specialise in studying speech, articulation and sounds, language including receptive and expressive communication, feeding, fluency and voice. Speech Pathologists can diagnose and treat difficulties with communication, and all of the above areas. They can also help build literacy proficiency.
Parents often ask ‘How do I know whether my child should or would benefit from seeing a Speech Pathologist?’.
If your child has difficulty communicating or being understood across different environments including:
- Problems being understood by other people;
- Problems understanding what people say;
- Frustration because they can’t say what they want to say or can’t be understood by others;
- A husky voice that’s hard to hear;
- Stuttering;
- Not speaking;
- Global delay in meeting language milestones;
- Difficulty with the pronunciation of certain letters and sounds;
- Fussy feeding or feeding problems;
- Difficulty communicating in order to socialise and build friendships.