Speech Therapy
Paediatric Speech Pathologists/Therapists work within the multi-disciplinary team to support children and their families to improve communication and literacy skills.
Hunter Children's Clinic Speech Pathology team can help children to build their skills in:
- Communication and language:
- Receptive language - understanding words, directions, and concepts
- Expressive language - using visuals, gestures, words and phrases to communicate needs, thoughts and ideas
- Vocabulary development and sentence building
- Functional communication across home, school and community settings
- Building confidence in interactions with peers and adults
- Speech sound development - intelligibility in structured and naturalistic contexts
- Fluency - assessment and support for stuttering
- School participation:
- Managing communication demands in the classroom
- Functional language for learning, understanding teacher instructions and peer interaction
- Pre-literacy and literacy development
