Speech Pathology for children helps them talk, listen and understand language and social skills for engagement with others across all environments and across the age span to do the things that kids do. It also helps children identify, understand and communicate about emotions, which in turn helps them to play and engage with others.
Whether the child is non-verbal, talks in “gibberish’, gets really frustrated when trying to communicate or has limited play and interaction skills, Speech Pathology can help overcome this.
In essence, Speech Pathology makes daily communication, play and engagement with others easier by developing children’s skills, arming their parents with strategies to support them at home, and educates teachers to set children up for success in the classroom.
Attend for long enough, concentrate on one thing at a time, control emotions and behave appropriately.
Learn everything…academically, socially, movement, in play, in self-care and self management (organisation).
Listening, talking and following instructions
Using sounds in words and talking smoothly
Connecting with others, making friends and conversation skills
Playing alone for solitary recreation, or in a group for social interaction
Kid Sense Speech Pathology helps children overcome developmental challenges in talking, listening, learning (including reading and spelling), playing and engaging socially. At Kid Sense we don’t treat a diagnosis, we overcome the hurdles to easy daily life, no matter what life stage the child is experiencing*.
Listening and hearing speech sounds; saying sounds; linking sounds together into words and sentences; fluency and smoothness of speech; voice quality; phonological awareness skills; sounding out words and spelling.
Saying words; linking words together; using grammar; telling stories; using language socially; writing.
Understanding what words mean; understanding concepts, sentences and grammatical rules; reading comprehension.
Playing with toys and people; looking; listening and attention and early interaction skills.
* Different skills are required at different ages and stages of education.
Speech Pathology helps children develop everyday communication, play and social interaction skills across their many environments (including home, childcare, preschool and school, and extracurricular activities). Although focused on the child’s skill development, our Speech Pathologists also work closely with the child’s family and their teachers/carers to implement strategies to support the development, or to compensate for skills not yet acquired. In some cases, physical aids to support communication may be provided. Speech Pathology makes the child’s family/teacher’s life easier by helping develop the child’s communication to the family/carer, as the family/carer’s communication to the child easier and more effective. Kid Sense Speech Pathology takes the therapy into the everyday world so it’s not therapy, it’s just life!
Children’s many skills and abilities often develop entwined with others, so you can’t tease out one skill from another as they progress. Given the dynamic and interlocking nature of skills development and the ever-changing demands on children, many children’s challenges in one area of skill development benefit from both Occupational Therapy and Speech Pathology. In fact, one often directly supports the other.
Some children benefit from doing both therapies simultaneously while others benefit from a term of Occupational Therapy followed by a term of Speech Pathology. Your child’s therapist can provide “best fit” recommendations for your child if and when Speech Pathology is also recommended.
Kid Sense provides both Speech Pathology and Occupational Therapy and on site and in schools (variable), ensuring children enjoy a truly integrated multi-disciplinary service.
Planning call (if required)
To determine your child's strengths and 'worries'
Initial treatment to commence intervention, strategies and support
Clinic based Tele-therapy Phone Home Community (Playground) School/Preschool/ Childcare
(ongoing at each appointment)
Review skills during reduced therapy frequency
Celebrate your child's 'wonderful'
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