Goodness Allied Health - Speech PATHOLOGY Services
Types of Services
Goodness Allied Health currently provides the following types of speech pathology services:
- Face-to-face assessment and intervention
- Online intervention
- 1:1 intervention
- Group therapy
- Parent training
- Dance therapy – coming soon!
Speech Pathology Assessment
Speech Pathology Assessment will provide you with a detailed understanding of your child’s:
- Expressive language
- Receptive language
- Speech sound development
- Oromotor capacity (facial movement, strength and observation of facial anatomy and its function)
- Social skills/pragmatics
- Stuttering/fluency
- Literacy capacity: only assessed once a child has commenced school.
- Phonological awareness
- Spelling
- Reading rate
- Reading accuracy
- Reading comprehension
- Written expression
Alternative communication (AAC) assessments and device trials are offered here at Goodness Allied Health. Individuals that are non-verbal, semi-verbal or selectively-verbal may benefit from access to alternative communication.
A thorough report is provided following completion of your speech pathology assessment.
Speech Therapy
Goodness Allied Health offers paediatric clients speech therapy subsequent to an initial speech pathology assessment. If your child has undertaken a speech pathology assessment within the past 12-months, intervention can commence straight away if an assessment report is provided.
Therapy Duration
Goodness Allied Health offers weekly and fortnightly services. Therapy services may span 30-, 45-, 60- or 90-minutes, based on your child’s needs. Therapy duration is subject to the clinician’s capacity. Speech therapy services will be provided through therapy blocks. This means your child may experience periods of weekly or fortnightly services, followed by opportunities for a break in therapy or access to group therapy services whilst remaining on the clinician’s caseload. The length and frequency of each therapy block will depend on your child's goals and will be guided by evidence-based practice to support the best possible progress.