Toddlers and Preschoolers
Care2Communicate have provided therapy for many young children using engaging and play based learning techniques to keep therapy fun, whilst ensuring communication difficulties are targeted. We work side by side with pre-school educators and parents to help ensure the child’s support networks are able to apply the techniques outside of therapy and facilitate the child’s speech and language development across all learning environments.
Families often experience stress and confusion around whether their child is developing speech and language skills at the normal age expectations. Our speech pathologists are highly skilled in assessing and determining whether your child is reaching developmental milestones.
Use of Expressive language
Ability to communicate through early sounds and gestures, labeling, combining words, answering questions, retelling stories/events, using grammar and verbs in phrase and sentence construction and maintaining conversation.
Undertstanding of Receptive Language
Developing skills for joint attention, listening, auditory processing, following directions and understanding of language concepts and questions.
Speech articulation and pronunciation
We focus on your child’s speech sounds in syllables, words and sentences to help correct speech errors that make it difficult for your child to be understood (e.g. lisps, substitution of sound where ‘cat’ becomes ‘tat’).
Pragmatic and Social Skills
Support for your child’s understanding and use of social language skills like eye contact, greetings, gestures, facial expressions, and turn-taking across different situations.
Voice
Looking at your child’s voice quality (e.g. hoarse or strained voice) or voice use (e.g. frequent screaming).
Fluency and stuttering
Focusing on the flow/smoothness of your child’s speech without stuttering.
Preschool Screening
At Care2Communicate we believe early detection and intervention is key in order to reduce the severity of speech and language delays/disorders presenting in school aged children. To determine whether a child’s speech and language is developmentally appropriate.
Care2Communicate offer pre-school screeners (maximum of 20 minutes), which include a brief report. This includes an outline of the child’s skills, areas of difficulty and recommendations regarding the child’s communication development as per expectation for their age.
The screening process offers parents and educators insight into the child’s capabilities and what skills need to be developed to be school ready. Comprehensive assessments are also offered to allow our therapists to develop specific programs for the child to target their areas of difficulty and ensure school readiness.
In-Person Across Sydney
Whether in your home, school, aged care facility or supported workplace we will come to you.
Telehealth Across Australia
Speech Pathology has never been so accessible! Care 2 Communicate can provide online sessions Australia wide.
In-Person Across Sydney
Whether in your home, school, aged care facility or supported workplace we will come to you.
Telehealth Across Australia
Speech Pathology has never been so accessible! Care 2 Communicate can provide online sessions Australia wide.
When to reach out
If you have any concerns about any areas of your child’s communication listed above, please contact Care2Communicate. We are always happy to discuss and provide advice for any questions or worries you may have about your child’s communication development.