Navigating your child’s communication development can sometimes be tricky and raise questions and concerns. At daar, Speech Pathology services are tailored to your child’s needs, to live their lives to their fullest potential. Wondering if Speech Pathology is right for your child, here are some key indicators to consider:
- Assessment for Milestones: If you want to understand where your child is currently at in their communication development, an initial appointment with subsequent assessments (parent interview, informal observations through play, standardised assessments) can evaluate a child’s receptive language, expressive language, speech sound development, social skills and play skills.
- Concerns about Receptive language skills: If your child has challenges with following instructions and understanding language, speech pathology can assess and provide tailored intervention to facilitate with comprehension
- Concerns about Expressive Language Skills: If your child demonstrates challenges with expressing their wants and needs, difficulty with vocabulary usage, forming sentences, this may indicate a need for speech therapy to enhance communication abilities.
- Speech sound clarity: If a child sounds unclear when speaking or is difficult to be understood by others, they will benefit from speech therapy sessions focused on improving clarity and articulation.
- Fluency concerns: If your child has trouble getting words out or has a stutter, speech pathologist can provide customised strategies to support this.
- Social Interaction Issues: If your child experiences challenges with interacting with peers, such as initiating and maintaining interaction or conversation, sharing and turn taking, these areas can be addressed through speech pathology services.
- Literacy Challenges: If your child experiences difficulty with learning to read and write, speech pathologist can support this area to facilitate with improving spelling and reading comprehension.
- School Concerns: If your child has trouble catching up in school, and that school has raised concerns about their communication skills, impacting their learning and participation in the classroom environment, speech pathology can provide targeted support.
- Delays in Milestones: If your child has been reported to be delayed in their communication milestones, speech pathology can assess specific areas of difficulties and provide customised intervention.
- Diagnosis support: Following a diagnosis that could impact communication such as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Global Developmental Delay (GDD), speech pathology can play a crucial role in developing communication strategies and skills.
- Parent education: Even if you’re simply seeking information about typical and expected communication skills for your child, a speech pathologist can offer valuable insight and guidance.
At daar, our certified and experienced speech pathologists are dedicated to helping children reach their full communication potential. If you recognise any of these indicators in your child, don't hesitate to reach out. For more information or to schedule an assessment, please contact us daar at 02-9133 2500.