Toddlers learn to use and respond to language through parent-led interactions such as reading, singing, and everyday routines like bath time or breakfast. These meaningful, everyday moments help provide the rich language modelling your child needs to start understanding and using words.

Receptive language is the ability to understand what others say, while expressive language is how we share our own thoughts, ideas, and feelings, using words, gestures, or other forms of communication.

Difficulties in these areas might look like having trouble putting words in the right order, using a smaller range of vocabulary, finding it hard to follow directions, or understanding the meaning of certain words.

A child with speech sound difficulties knows what they want to say, but may be difficult to understand. This may be just for people unfamiliar to the child, or for those closest to them. Speech sound difficulties may look like difficulty with the clarity of certain sounds, e.g. a ‘s’ sounding slushy, or a child replacing certain sounds with others, e.g. saying ‘tar’ instead of ‘car’.

We target reading and writing difficulties using evidence based approaches that target phonemic awareness, phonics knowledge (the way sounds are represented by letters), and morphology (the way that small chunks of words help us to spell and understand new vocabulary). 

We work on reading and writing using the following programs and approaches: Sounds Write, The Writing Revolution, Shape Coding and Story Champs, which teach the language and literacy skills necessary for writing at school and in everyday life.

Stuttering affects the flow or smoothness of someone’s speech. Someone who stutters knows exactly what they want to say, but sometimes the words don’t come out as easily or smoothly as they’d like, which might mean that they repeat sounds, words or phrases, or get stuck on a word.

A neuro affirming approach to building authentic connection. We focus on understanding perspectives, navigating friendships, and communicating needs in ways that respect each child’s identity and preferences.

Alternative augmentative communication (AAC) refers to any method of communication aside from talking verbally. Some children may use AAC to supplement their communication or use it as their main method of communication. All forms of communication are valid communication.

You know your child best. We partner with you to create simple, doable strategies for daily life, with clear goals and check ins so progress is visible.