Empowering children to strengthen their communication and social bonds
Speech & Language Therapy
At Kiki’s Children's Clinic, our Speech and Language Therapy services are designed to help children and young adults develop the communication skills necessary to thrive in everyday life. Whether your child is facing challenges with speech clarity, language development, social communication, or feeding and swallowing issues, our therapists provide personalized, evidence-based treatments tailored to their unique needs.
Through fun and engaging activities, we support children in building confidence and enhancing their ability to express themselves, interact with others, and understand the world around them. Our goal is to empower each child to communicate effectively, enabling them to connect with friends, family, and their community, and helping them reach their full potential.
Our team is trained to help children with a variety of needs:
Speech Sound Disorders: Difficulties in producing certain sounds or types of sounds.
Cleft Palate: Children with a cleft palate may struggle to produce various speech sounds due to velopharyngeal dysfunction. Those with repaired clefts may need instruction on correct sound production.
Hearing Impairment: Can cause delays in developing receptive and expressive communication skills.
Motor Speech Disorders: Conditions such as childhood dyspraxia or dysarthria can affect motor planning or the functioning of the speech mechanism, making speech difficult to understand.
Stammering: Characterized by disruptions in the production of speech sounds.
Voice Disorders: Issues related to pitch, rhythm, quality, and/or volume.
Language-Based Learning Disabilities: Such as dyslexia, central auditory processing disorder, or specific learning impairment (SLI).
Selective Mutism: A consistent failure to speak in certain situations or contexts, such as at school.
Social Skills / Social Language: Impairments in understanding social components of language, such as appropriate eye contact, vocal volume, and topic maintenance, commonly seen in ADHD and Autism Spectrum Disorders, including Asperger’s Syndrome.
Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC): The use of communication methods that complement or replace oral speech, including facial expressions, gestures, symbols, pictures, signs, computer-based systems, tablets, or writing. AAC enhances communication for individuals who have difficulty producing oral speech.
​Dysphagia: Support for babies and children with feeding and swallowing disorders to facilitate mealtime success, whether they are orally or tube-fed.
Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC): AAC is used as an alternative to speech or to augment speech for individuals whose speech does not meet all of their communication needs. This can include unaided forms such as facial expressions, gestures, sign language, and Makaton, as well as aided forms like communication books, speech-generating devices, handwriting/typing, and SMS or emails.
Prompt Therapy: PROMPT therapy involves a speech and language therapist using physical facilitations on a person's face to guide their jaw, lips, and tongue to move correctly to form words. It is helpful for children with motor speech challenges such as dysarthria, apraxia of speech, cerebral palsy, and autism spectrum conditions.
I would like to pass on our appreciation for Amelia, SLT. She has been wonderful to work with and her enthusiasm and way with the children in her care is lovely to see. She has a broad skillset and is really helping us see a way to communicate better with them and they are already making progress because of her.
Here's the process we go through together
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Introductory call to get to know each other.
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Evaluating your child's needs and developing a plan.
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Implementing your child's plan of care
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Achieving your child's goals