Services

As a qualified Speech Language Pathologist I am trained to assess and treat people who have a communication disability.  My training encompassed  all aspects of communication including speech, writing, reading, signs, symbols and gestures.    As such I offer a wide range of services including assessment and treatment of speech, language, literacy and interaction skills.

Speech Sound Errors

Characterised by sound substitutions and deletions and motor speech delays and disorders.
Your child may;

• Substitute sounds in words, for example using the sound /k/ for the sound /t/ and say “tat” instead of “cat”.
  
• Delete sounds in words, for example they might say “bow” instead of “boat”.

Literacy Difficulties

Characterised by difficulties with reading, writing and phonological awareness.

Your child may show difficulties with;

• Early pre literacy skills (phonological awareness) e.g. rhyming, counting syllables, changing sounds in words
  
• School age literacy skills e.g. sounds to letter knowledge, short vowel and long vowel knowledge, spelling rules, sight words, decoding and encoding.

Receptive Language Difficulties

Characterised by difficulties understanding what is heard.

Your child may show difficulty;

• Following simple instructions.
  
• Understanding concepts such as ‘under’, ‘big’, ‘below’.
  
• Understanding object functions such as ‘the chair is for sitting’.
  
• Understanding word meanings.

Expressive Language Difficulties

Characterised by difficulties using words and sentences to communicate.

• Your child may show difficulty;
  
  • Naming people, places, things, actions etc.
    
  • Using words to communicate.
    
  • Constructing sentences.
    
  • Using grammatical forms e.g. he/she.
    
  • Learning new words.

Relationship Development Intervention (RDI®)

RDI® addresses the core deficits of autism and teaches parents how to provide treatment that offers their child a second opportunity to master missed early social and emotional development.

As a certified Consultant I provide an individualised plan together with parent coaching and support in accordance with the RDI® - Family Consultation Program.  The RDI® program excels where other programs fail by:

• Educating,  empowering and valuing parents to create profound changes in their child.
• Providing a consultative model that puts parents in their rightful role as guides to their children significantly reduces the cost of treatment. Parents spend the most time around their children – not therapists!  Parents learn to their to be the therapist for their child.
• Utilising a balanced treatment planning process that considers the autism as well as other conditions or obstacles, and takes the needs of the whole family into account.
• Allowing families to live life while treating autism. Families experience the quality of life they deserve and learn how to make remediation of autism a part of their everyday life. It does not have to separate from everyday life.
• Constantly evolving to reflect new research and information, which ensures that the program remains cutting-edge and relevant over time.
• Using an innovative web-based system to provide parents with continuous access to program information, communication with their consultant, video footage, and much more on an ongoing basis.