Speech Therapy improves the functional talking, listening and understanding skills.
The outcome of speech therapy will have an impact on these following skills:
- Talk (combining words in the right order and articulating them clearly so they can be understood)
- Listen and understand (attending to the spoken word and responding appropriately)
- Learn (not just academically but in socially and in play)
- Socially Interacting with others
- Play (both alone and with others)
Speech Therapy helps children to overcome developmental challenges in speech, play, language and learning.
At ENFANCE we don’t just diagnose, we help the child overcome the hurdles to daily life. Speech Therapy helps children develop their abilities in:
Listening and hearing speech sounds; saying sounds; linking sounds together into words and sentences; fluency and smooth flow of speech; appropriate voice quality; phonological awareness skills; spelling and decoding the words sounds.
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. Children with following difficulty can be most benefitted by speech therapy
- Autism spectrum disorder
- Global developmental delay
- Childhood Apraxia of Speech
- Dysarthria
- Orofacial Myofunctional Disorders
- Articulation and Phonological Processes
- Stuttering
- Voice
- Preschool Language Disorders
- Language-Based Learning Disabilities (Reading, Spelling, and Writing)
- Selective Mutism
- Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
- Cleft Lip and Palate
Speech Therapy addresses the functional skills that are required across different environments. While the actual ‘therapy’ occurs within the clinic (and home setting through home practice), our Speech Therapy team works closely with parents, teachers and other care-givers to implement strategies to develop language and play skills in the home, child care, kindergarten and school environments.
