Speech pathologists are involved in the assessment and treatment of children with communication problems.

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How do I know if my child needs to see a Speech Therapist?

There are a number of key indicators that can help you decide if your child needs to see a speech pathologist. These include:

• Difficulties with pre-linguistic skills, including making eye-contact or facial expressions, gesturing, babbling or imitating sounds

• Problems being understood by others

• Difficulties following instructions at home, kinder and/or school

• Problems answering questions e.g. repeating language back to you

• Problems making and maintaining peer relationships and friendships

• Poor listening skills

• Frustration at not being able to get message across

• Difficulties with producing grammatically-correct sentences

• Word-finding difficulties e.g. getting stuck on words, word errors, making up words

• Stammering

• Not being able to speak clearly (Misarticulation)

 

Please note, if you have any concerns regarding your child’s development please contact us to discuss these in further detail.

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Areas of Specialty

The speech pathologists at FutuReady specialize in the diagnosis and management of children from infancy through to adolescence years of age who have difficulties with:

• The building blocks for communication and language, including engagement, relating to others, imitating sounds and gesturing

• Receptive language development, including understanding of verbal and non-verbal communication

• Auditory Processing

• Expressive language development

• Speech sound development

• Social communication

• Play skills

 

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