Speech Therapy For Kids at Chatterbox
Chatterbox strives to provide the best care for your child. Our speech therapists in Harrington Park are compassionate and caring. They are passionate about working with children and helping your child to realise their true potential – with 5 clinics across Sydney in Rosehill, Bella Vista, Oran Park, Kingswood and Penrith.
Our speech pathology clinics offer a friendly, warm environment in which your child can be heard and supported. All of our Speech Pathologists and speech therapists share a passion for working with children and families to best support their learning goals.
Speech Therapy Harrington Park
Our speech pathologists and speech therapists are dedicated to helping children and their families develop communication skills. This will foster learning and encourage them to participate in activities both at home and in the community. We can help children with speech disorders such as stuttering or apraxia of speech, autism spectrum disorder, lisps, and assist with literacy development in childhood, expressive language disorders, and articulation disorders.
We believe that every child deserves access to therapy, no matter where they are located. So we offer online therapy in addition to our clinics within Rosehill, Bella Vista or Oran Park, Penrith & Kingswood. We proudly also offer services to the suburbs of Western Sydney.
What Does A Speech Pathologist Do?
Paediatric Speech Pathologists are trained to assess and provide speech therapy for children who may experience communication and speech difficulties. These disorders may affect language, speech, communication with others, socialising, communicating with people, speaking and listening, writing, reading, or using your voice.
These difficulties could be due to developmental issues, brain injuries or intellectual disabilities, dementia, and other problems related to speech-language development.
What Conditions Can A Speech Pathologist in Harrington Park Help Treat?
The common issues Speech Pathologists can help with are:
- Speech sound disorders
- Language disorders
- Stuttering treatment
- Stammering treatment
- Reading and spelling disorders
- Difficulty with feeding and swallowing
- Lisps
- Receptive language disorders
- Difficulty with repeating what is repeated back to them
- Expressive language
- Language development issues
- Reading comprehension
- Listening and attention
- Speech impairments
- Apraxia of speech
- Phonological dyslexia
- Producing speech sounds correctly (articulation)
- Using the correct sentence structure
- Speech impediments
What to Expect During Your Initial Speech Therapy Consult
- Identify what is going on for your child and identify what some of the causes might be
- Prepare a plan that will get your child moving in a positive direction.
- Create a custom solution to help you achieve results
Paediatric Speech Therapist in Harrington Park
Who will be my child’s speech pathologist and who will I ask?
We are committed to your child’s success and will work with you to make sure your family is happy. Each time you visit our clinic, you will see the same therapist. This allows your child and your family to get to know the therapist who will guide your child’s communication journey. This allows the therapist to get to know your child’s learning style and how they progress.
All of our therapists have a university degree at a minimum and are members of our professional body, Speech Pathology Australia. Our therapists are familiar with working with children of all ages, with different communication needs such as language, speech and spelling.
Our Therapists need to keep their skills up-to-date. Regular Professional Development Workshops are required to ensure that our Therapists can provide Chatterbox families with the best, most current, research-based therapy.
Speech Pathologists Are Specifically Trained To Assess And Treat Your Child's Communication Skills.
Don’t wait. Early intervention has been shown to improve the chances of children succeeding in school and at home. In general these difficulties do not just ‘go away’. These problems are not due to your child being lazy. It is possible that your child may avoid talking in certain situations or become frustrated when it comes to homework.
It is simply because they find it difficult A parent does not cause their child to have these difficulties, however a parent who has found the right advice and support can help their child to achieve success.
Speech Pathology Funding Options
There are options available to help you support your child with Occupational therapy in Harrington Park and
speech therapy services. We are able to process:
