Kid Sense Speech Pathology is focused on helping children to overcome developmental challenges in play, language and learning.
Speech and Language Therapy helps children develop their abilities in play and interaction (playing with toys and people; looking; listening and attention and early interaction skills), understanding words and language (understanding what words mean; understanding concepts, sentences and grammatical rules; reading comprehension), using words and language (saying words; linking words together; using grammar; telling stories; using language socially; writing), pronunciation and talking (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). Different skills are required at different ages and stages of education.
Speech Pathology addresses the functional skills that are required across environments: while the actual ‘therapy’ occurs in the clinic and home setting, our therapy team works closely with parents, teachers and other care-givers to implement strategies to help develop language skills in child care, kindergarten and school environments.
