Speech Pathology Services

Fun Family Centred Therapy

What happens during a speech therapy session?

1. We will get to know you

2. We will develop a treatment and management plan together

3. We will provide direct therapy and more importantly, care-giver education

 

1. We get to know you

 

We will find out:

• your main concerns

• your goals for your child and family

• how you learn

• what you feel is going well

• what areas you would like to feel more confident in

• what you would like to gain from seeing a speech pathologist

 

We will get to know your child by finding out about your child's:

• medical, family and developmental history

• current communication method (e.g. how the message is delivered to you)

• motivations to communicate

• interests

• strengths

• challenges

• interactions with other people

• play

• response to their environment

• current language
   

2. We will develop a treatment and management plan together

We will provide a treatment and management plan which:

• is based on your needs as a family

• uses your child’s strengths and interests

• helps your child learn skills, increasing independence and access to activities of daily living

• improves your child's ability to get the message across

• improves their interaction with others

• helps to minimise the challenges

• teaches skills in play

• increases language skills

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3. We provide direct therapy and more importantly, care-giver education

The treatment and management intervention plan will form the basis of the speech therapy moving forward with goals being re-assessed regularly. In addition to direct therapy, we will equip you with the skills to continue the learned therapy approaches at home. This has been shown to improve outcomes.

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Our therapy follows evidenced based practice to maximise outcomes. However, given each child is unique, we tailor our approaches to suit their strengths and interests.