WHO WE SEE

Sound Start Speech Pathology provides assessment and therapy services for children with speech sound disorders (difficulty saying sounds and words correctly, unclear speech, substituting or swapping sounds in words, difficulty being understood by others). This includes children with:

• Severely unintelligible speech

• Articulation difficulties

• Phonological disorders

• Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) 

• Childhood Dysarthria

• Velopharyngeal Incompetence (VPI)

• Speech difficulties related to cleft palate

• Speech difficulties related to orofacial myofunctional difficulties

• Speech sound disorders associated with genetic conditions, paediatric stroke, TBI etc. 

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Further information regarding different types of speech sound disorders can be found here.

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Erin also offers a second opinion assessment option for families wishing to review their child's communication diagnosis and therapy recommendations. 

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Contact us if you would like to discuss your child’s individual needs. Erin will take the time to discuss the supports they may need and help you decide if Sound Start is the right service to best meet your child's needs.