Speech and Language Treatment
Treatment sessions will always be play-based and led by the child’s interests. Sessions will be fun and engaging for the child and easy for parents to replicate at home, in-between sessions.
Goals will be determined collaboratively by the family, child and therapist, based on real-life needs and concerns. They will be tailored to you and your child’s unique interests, needs and skills.
What We Help With:
Expressive Language/Use of Language
Does your child have difficulty expressing themselves? Do they become frustrated when others cannot understand them?
- Combining words together in meaningful ways
- Expressing wants and needs effectively
- Increasing vocabulary (using a larger variety of nouns, adjectives, adverbs, verbs)
- Improving grammar, sentence structure, word structure and order
- Increasing sentence length and improving overall complexity of sentences
- Asking meaningful questions and participating in conversations with friends and family
- Improving higher level language skills e.g., such as telling stories, giving directions, summarizing text etc.
Receptive Language/Understanding of Language
Does your child have difficulty understanding what you say? Do you often have to repeat instructions or show them what to do? Do teachers tell you they have trouble listening?
- Following and understanding single step and multi-step directions
- Understanding a variety of different words and concepts
- Understanding grammatical structures (e.g. word endings such as plurals, past-tense, verb endings etc.)
- Understanding and responding to questions accurately
Speech Sounds/Articulation
Are your child’s speech sounds unclear? Do friends and family often ask you to clarify what your child just said?
- Increasing overall speech clarity and intelligibility
- Producing speech sounds and sound combinations expected based on age
Connection
Does your child have difficulty meaningfully interacting with peers?
- Engaging in meaningful conversations with a like-minded community of peers and family
- Building meaningful relationships at school and in the community
- Playing games of interest with peers
- Building self-advocacy skills
Phonological Awareness and Literacy
Is your child having difficulty meeting grade-level standards for reading?
- Prerequisite literacy skills necessary for reading, including
- Rhyming
- Sound identification
- Blending sounds together to make words (i.e. c-a-t makes cat)
- Breaking words up into the sounds (i.e. dog has three sounds d-o-g)
- Counting syllables and words
Creative Arts Therapy
Is your child having trouble regulating, connecting with others, interacting and building confidence? Creative Arts Therapy and Dance/Movement Therapy can help children achieve these goals!
- Creative Exploration
Each session includes music, movement, and play where kids can freely express themselves and connect with peers in a supportive, neurodiversity-affirming, inclusive space. - Inclusive, Child-Led Environment
Your child will thrive in a safe, welcoming space where their unique communication journey is celebrated and supported. - Led by a Certified Canadian Counsellor (billable service covered by most insurance plans) and Registered Dance/Movement Therapist.
