OUR SERVICES
The Sowt Specialist Center Speech and Language Therapy team assesses and treats the full range of speech and language development in children. Our therapists support children in developing their ability to understand others and to be understood, including aural, oral, reading, and writing skills. Our therapists work with children of all ages, including early intervention, and all types of diagnoses and learning difficulties. The following are examples of areas that Sowt center therapists address:
Receptive/Expressive Language
Oral motor skills
Cognition
Fluency/Stuttering
Apraxia of speech
Articulation and phonology
Memory
Auditory processing
Reading and writing difficulties
ABA is an intensive education program designed for children with ASD or associated characteristics. ABA therapists develop personalized learning plans to suit the child’s current level of functioning, consolidate and generalize emerging skills and create opportunities to develop new skills. Maximum impact is seen when children engage in therapy for a minimum of 20 hours per week. It is essential that real life and functional connections are made between new learning which occurs during therapy and contexts which are meaningful to the child (e.g. – school and home). During a typical session with the therapist, a child will focus upon developing a specific skill for short periods of time. The learning process is supported and new skills learnt and reinforced by frequent rewards such as food, favorite toy, tickles or free play.
ABA programs focus on all areas of development including communication (verbal and non-verbal), play, self-help, fine and gross motor as well as academic skills. It also addresses problematic behaviors including self-injury, tantrums, as well as socially inappropriate behaviors.
Verbal and non-verbal communication
Self-help skills
Gross motor skills
Play
Fine motor skills
Self regulation
IT ALSO ADDRESS:
Challenging and socially inappropiate behavior
