Speech Clinics

Language, Literacy and Learning (LLL) is ideal for children working to improve language and literacy skills. Developing an understanding of perspectives, non-literal language and creative writing is linked to improved social skills.

• Young children can learn the relationships between sounds, letters and words
• School aged children can learn how to interpret stories novels and reports, and how to articulate their knowledge in writing
• Young adults can learn to be more independent in the community, for example conversing using text messages and understanding menus
• People of all ages with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), dyslexia or dysgraphia.

Build on your social skills and better participate in your community by improving:

• Social cognition, your awareness of others’ thoughts and feelings, awareness of other’s plans and intentions
• Skills such as having conversations, building friendships and relationships
• Working in groups of people and communicating effectively
• Social problem solving when things ‘don’t go to plan’
• Building imaginative play skills and language based play
• Learn strategies to cope with social anxiety
• Managing emotions and behaviour when around others
• Knowing how to join in with groups of people and conversations. Knowing what to say and what to do with your face and body when talking to others
• Managing academic work that relies on social understanding (e.g. writing an essay about characters in a novel).

Social Skills is available for people of all ages and abilities, and is especially beneficial for people with ASD.

Clear Speech addresses the mechanics of speech and helps children and adults say sounds, words and sentences clearly. If you have problems sounding out certain words, saying longer words, or have unusual movements of the jaw, lips and tongue, Clear Speech could be for you.

If appropriate, Clear Speech Clinic can include PROMPT therapy. PROMPT stands for Prompts Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets, and is a multidimensional approach to improving speech by working on the mechanics of the jaw, lips and tongue to move correctly to form words. PROMPT also considers the social, emotional, environmental and desired behavioural outcomes of the person.

PROMPT can help improve:

• Language formulation
• Syntax
• Motor control or planning
• Phonological or “rule based” learning disorders
• Auditory processing and production disorders
• General cognitive or global delays.