Speech Pathology for children and young adults helps them talk, listen and understand language and social skills for engagement with others across all environments and across the age span to do the things that children and young adults do. It also helps children/young adults identify, understand and communicate about emotions, which in turn helps them to play and engage with others.
Whether the child is non-verbal, talks in “gibberish’, gets really frustrated when trying to communicate or has limited play and interaction skills, Speech Pathology can help overcome this.
In essence, Speech Pathology makes daily communication, play and engagement with others easier by developing children’s skills, arming their parents and educators with strategies to support them at home, and educates teachers to set children up for success in the classroom and home/community enviroment.
Attend for long enough, concentrate on one thing at a time, control emotions and behave appropriately.
Learn everything…academically, socially, movement, in play, in self-care and self management (organisation).
Listening, talking and following instructions
Using sounds in words and talking smoothly
Connecting with others, making friends and conversation skills
Playing alone for solitary recreation, or in a group for social interaction
Kid Sense Speech Pathology helps children/young adults overcome developmental challenges in talking, listening, learning (including reading and spelling), playing and engaging socially. At Kid Sense we don’t treat a diagnosis, we overcome the hurdles to easy daily life, no matter what life stage the child is experiencing*.
Listening and hearing speech sounds; saying sounds; linking sounds together into words and sentences; fluency and smoothness of speech; voice quality; phonological awareness skills; sounding out words and spelling.
Saying words; linking words together; using grammar; telling stories; using language socially; writing.
Understanding what words mean; understanding concepts, sentences and grammatical rules; reading comprehension.
Playing with toys and people; looking; listening and attention and early interaction skills, as well as learning social interaction in employment scenarios.
* Different skills are required at different ages and stages of education.
Speech Pathology helps children/young adults develop everyday communication, play and social interaction skills across their many environments (including home, childcare, preschool and school, extracurricular activities and employment). Although focused on the child/young adults’ skill development, our Speech Pathologists also work closely with the child/young adult’s family, and their teachers/carers/ employment colleagues to implement strategies to support the development, or to compensate for skills not yet acquired. In some cases, physical aids to support communication may be provided. Speech Pathology makes the child/young adult’s family/teacher/employer’s life easier by helping develop the individual’s communication to the family/carer/ colleagues, as well as the family/carer/colleague’s communication to the individual easier and more effective. Kid Sense Speech Pathology takes the therapy into the everyday world so it’s not therapy, it’s just life!
Children and young adult’s many skills and abilities often develop entwined with others, so you can’t tease out one skill from another as they progress. Given the dynamic and interlocking nature of skills development and the ever-changing demands on individuals, many challenges in one area of skill development benefit from both Occupational Therapy and Speech Pathology. In fact, one often directly supports the other.
Some children/young adults benefit from doing both therapies simultaneously while others benefit from a term of Occupational Therapy followed by a term of Speech Pathology. Your child/young adult’s therapist can provide “best fit” recommendations for them if and when Speech Pathology is also recommended.
Kid Sense provides both Speech Pathology and Occupational Therapy in clinics, in the home and in schools (variable), ensuring the child/young adult enjoy a truly integrated multi-disciplinary service.
Planning call (if required)
To determine your child's strengths and 'worries'
Initial treatment to commence intervention, strategies and support
Clinic based Tele-therapy Phone Home Community (Playground) School/Preschool/ Childcare
(ongoing at each appointment)
Review skills during reduced therapy frequency
Celebrate your child's 'wonderful'
Planning call (if required)
To determine your child's strengths and 'worries'
Initial treatment to commence intervention, strategies and support
Clinic based Tele-therapy Phone Home Community (Playground) School/Preschool/ Childcare
(ongoing at each appointment)
Review skills during reduced therapy frequency
Celebrate your child's 'wonderful'
We acknowledge the land on which we operate as the traditional lands of the Kaurna people, and pay our respects to the spiritual relationship with country that all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples hold.
Kid Sense is founded on inclusion and the belief that everyone is welcome. All diversity is celebrated, encouraged, represented and supported in our staff, our clients, and our community. You are welcome here.
