Speech difficulties can include:

  • Planning and coordinating oral movements needed for speech (apraxia of speech)
  • Fluency (stuttering/cluttering)
  • Voice (hoarseness)
  • Understanding language (receptive)
  • Using language (expressive)
  • Social communication (pragmatic language)
  • Prelinguistic communication (joint attention, turn-taking, communicative intent)
  • Paralinguistic communication (gestures, signs, body language)
  • Pronunciation (articulation)
  • Developing speech patterns that we use in communication (phonology)
  • Literacy (reading, writing, spelling)
  • Cognitive functioning (higher function or reasoning)
  • Hearing (auditory rehabilitation)
  • Resonance
  • Weak or reduced movement of articulators (tongue and/or lip)
  • Swallowing/feeding (sucking, chewing, swallowing of food or liquids and related feeding behaviours).
  • Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)

Speech therapists can assist with:

Adults or children who have had a traumatic brain injury or stroke

Children with Cerebral Palsy, Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia, Apraxia and more

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