Our team of Speech Therapists offers therapy in both Afrikaans and English. Our main focus areas include, but are not limited to:
- Early childhood intervention
- Speech, language and auditory processing therapy for school-aged children
- Working with autistic children and other language and developmental delays
- AAC (low- and high-tech communication support)
- Literacy and dyslexia intervention
- Cognitive-communication therapy (attention, memory, executive functioning)
Our Speech Therapists work on speech disorders (production of sounds), language disorders (problems understanding words or putting them together), auditory and cognitive disorders as well as oral feeding disorders. We have a special interest in the Developmental Individual-difference Relationship-Based model (DIR®/Floortime™).
Our Speech Therapists also support adults with:
- Aphasia, apraxia, and dysarthria following stroke or brain injury
- Cognitive-communication difficulties (e.g. memory, attention, problem-solving)
- Swallowing difficulties (dysphagia) due to neurological conditions
- Progressive neurological diseases such as Parkinson’s, MS, or dementia
We take a functional, person-centred approach – helping individuals regain confidence in their communication and daily activities.
Speech disorders
- Fluency includes problems such as stuttering
- Articulation involves difficulty producing clear and distinct sounds
- Voice relates to issues with pitch, volume or voice quality to the extent that it distracts others from understanding what is being said
- Resonance in relation to hypernasality or hyponasality
Expressive and receptive language disorders
- Receptive disorders refer to difficulties understanding or processing language
- Expressive disorders, on the other hand, refer to problems with spoken and written language (difficulties putting words together, vocabulary limitations, incorrect articulation of sounds within words)
Auditory and cognitive disorders
- Auditory disorders in relation to speech, language, communication, and listening skills impacted by hearing loss, deafness and auditory processing.
- Cognitive disorders include difficulty with skills that relate to attention, memory, problem solving and executive functioning (higher brain functioning related to goal-directed activities)
Oral feeding disorders
- Oral feeding disorders such as problems eating, drinking, chewing, swallowing, gagging/choking, coughing, food selectivity/refusal
