Our Services

Feeding/Swallowing assessment and intervention for:

• Breast and bottle feeding issues (e.g. difficulty with latching, suck-swallow-breathing coordination).

• Tube -oral feeding transitions (e.g. supporting development of oral skills such as sucking, chewing. Liaising with dietitian and nurse on tube weaning program). 

• Fussy eaters (limited repertoire of food, sensory processing difficulties, difficulty chewing foods, pacing issues)

• Nutritional issues (e.g. slow weight gain, modified diet requiring nutritional supplements)

• Dysphagia (e.g. unable to chew foods or drink thin liquids, choking on foods, recurrent aspiration pneumonia). 

Speech, fluency and voice assessment and intervention for:

• Speech sound delays (e.g. missing sounds, baby is not yet babbling)

• Omitting or mispronouncing sounds

• Dyspraxia and/or difficulties sequencing sounds (e.g. will say a word clearly one time and then the next time it will sound unclear)

• Stuttering, getting stuck or repeating sounds/words/phrases when talking. 

• Poor voice quality, history of vocal nodules, unable to regulate volume of voice, losing voice often. 

Literacy assessment and intervention for:

• Difficulties with reading and writing

• Difficulties with comprehension and story recall

• Unable to sound out words

• Difficulties with planning out sentences and paragraphs. 

Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) assessment and intervention for:

• Individuals with physical disability who need individually tailored access to communication. This may include using speech generating devices with single/multiple switch devices, eye gaze devices, joystick or alternative mouse devices, head array devices, touch screen devices with keyguards.

• Individualised language software for speech generating devices e.g. Grid 3, Proloque2go, Look2Learn, MindExpress, WordPower. 

• Low technology devices including visuals, e-tran frames, PECS books, PODD book, objects of reference and sign language.

Language assessment and intervention for:

• Delayed talker, child is not yet using words or sentences

• Word finding difficulties

• Unable to put a clear sentence together due to limited vocabulary and/or difficulties with grammar.

• Unable to follow simple instructions and understand basic concepts.

• Unable to answer or ask questions

Social (Pragmatic) Language assessment and intervention for:

• People with difficulties socialising (e.g. making new friends, starting a conversation)

• Poor social awareness

• Inappropriate use and understanding of non-verbal communication e.g. body language, facial expression, tone of voice.