Chatterbox offers speech therapy for kids
Chatterbox wants the best for your child. Our speech therapists in Penrith and speech pathologists are caring and kind. They are passionate about children and helping them reach their full potential. Our clinics are located in 5 clinics across Sydney in Rosehill, Bella Vista, Oran Park, Kingswood and Penrith.
Our speech pathology clinics are warm and friendly environments where children’s needs can be met and their achievements celebrated. All of our Speech Pathologists are passionate about working with children and their families to achieve their goals.
Speech Therapy Penrith
Our speech therapists, speech pathologists, and speech pathologists are committed to empowering families with communication skills that foster learning. We encourage children to get involved in activities within the home and outside. 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 every child has the right to have access to therapy no matter where they live, so we offer online therapy services as well as services within our clinics in Rosehill, Bella Vista, Oran Park, Penrith & Kingswood, we proudly also offer our services to the local 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. Language, communication, language, socialisation, communicating with others, speaking, writing and reading, as well as using your voice could all be affected.
These problems can be caused by brain injuries, developmental issues, intellectual disabilities, dementia or other problems related speech and language development.
What Conditions Can A Speech Pathologist in Penrith 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 In Your Initial Speech Therapy Consult
- Find out what's going on with your child, and what the possible causes are.
- Give your child a plan for moving forward immediately.
- Create a custom solution to help you achieve results
Paediatric Speech Therapist in Penrith
Who will my child's speech therapist be?
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 ensures that you and your family are familiar with the therapist responsible for your child’s communication journey. This also means the therapist will become familiar with how your child learns as their skills change and develop.
All of our therapists have a university degree at a minimum and are members of our professional body, Speech Pathology Australia. Our therapists have experience working with children of all ages with a range of communication needs, including: language, speech, reading, spelling, stuttering and social skills.
The Therapists at Chatterbox are required to continue their education. 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 evaluate and treat communication skills in children.
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 These difficulties are not caused by a parent. However, if a parent has the right support and advice, they can help their child succeed.
Speech Pathology Funding Options
There are options available to help you support your child with Occupational therapy in Penrith and
speech therapy services. We are able to process:
