What is a Speech and Language Therapist? A highly qualified professional that evaluates and treats your child’s speech and language skills.
Speech-Language Therapists treat communication disorders including:
Speech difficulties
- Articulation/ phonology: the way we pronounce our sounds
- Apraxia: difficulty coordinating and planning the movement for sounds
- Fluency: stuttering
- Voice: the way our voice sounds
Language difficulties:
- Expressive: difficulty with using language (e.g. Vocabulary, formulating ideas, grammar, retrieving words)
- Receptive: difficulty understanding language (e.g. Following directions, understanding questions)
- Social communication: difficulty with the social use of language (e.g. Using language to build social relations, initiating and maintaining conversation and topics)