Speech & Language Therapy Unit – Pediatrics / Adults

Speech & Language Therapy Unit – Pediatrics / Adults

Many clients with a variety of speech and language difficulties that may or may not have resulted from their underlying diagnoses such as Autism, Spectrum Disorder, Global Developmental Delay and Muscular Dystrophy. These clients first undergo an assessment to identify areas in which they are either not developing at the same level as children their age are, or have significant difficulties that impact their functioning in daily life.

Subsequently, these clients attend therapy sessions to work on goals targeted to their varying needs such as:

– Increasing the child’s understanding and use of different words (e.g. nouns, verbs)
– Increasing the length and type of sentences the child can produce
– Increasing the child’s understanding of concepts (e.g. same/different, location)
– Increasing the child’s functional communication, including using a picture communication system or selected words to communicate using speech or sign
– Helping the child speak more clearly

Treatments we offer by this unit for

• Articulation Difficulties
• Phonological Difficulties
• Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Hearing Impairment
• ADHD – Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder
• Downs Syndrome
• Stammering / Stuttering
• Swallowing Difficulties (Dysphagia)
• Learning Impairments
• Pragmatic Disorders
• Cerebral Palsy
• Other syndrome conditions and Cognitive Difficulties

Speech & Language Therapy Unit – Adults

Services offered to Adults are as follows,
• Post-stroke Speech and Language difficulties
• Voice Disorders
• Swallowing Difficulties (dysphagia)
• Memory Difficulties
• Stammering / Stuttering
• Post-trauma Speech and Language difficulties