What do Speech Language Pathologists (SLP) do?

As speech-language pathologists, we identify and treat a variety of speech and language delays and disorders occurring in childhood. We start by completing a standardized and comprehensive assessment to discern the specific needs of your child and their speech and language development. From there, a personalized plan of care is developed in partnership with your family to ensure all needs are met.

SLPs often utilize a child-led and play-based approach to engage both client and caregivers in treatment. Our goal is to ensure our services are family-centered, informative, and fun!

  • Speech and language screenings are available both in your home or at your child's school/daycare. A typical screening lasts 15-30 minutes and the purpose of a screening is to determine if further assessment is needed. Contact us for more information about how to set up a screening for your child or for a group of children at a daycare or school.

    • No charge for screenings

  • If you are concerned about your child's speech or language development, call for a consultation to determine what type of evaluation will be most appropriate for your child.

    • $200 for a comprehensive evaluation of speech and language

    • $150 for just language

    • $150 for just speech sounds

  • We provide individualized speech and language therapy services for children of all ages. We are able to treat a range of delays and disorders, such as: speech sound disorders, receptive and expressive language disorders, apraxia, fluency disorders, autism, developmental delays, and we also work with nonverbal and minimally verbal children. Therapy is provided 1:1.

    • $80 for 30 minutes

    • $130 for 45 minutes

  • Caregiver coaching involves service providers training caregivers to implement intervention strategies. Coaching also includes the service provider actively engaging the caregiver in the decision-making process for therapy by gathering information about routines and skills that are important in their daily lives, which can be addressed in treatment.

    The goal of caregiver coaching is to increase the caregivers self-confidence to support the clients communication in typical home routines and activities. Strategies for caregiver coaching may involve direct teaching of strategies with or without narration, guided practice with feedback, problem solving, and reflection.

    • $160 for 1 hour

  • ARTICULATION

    Articulation (pronunciation) is the ability to physically move the tongue, lips, teeth and jaw to produce sequences of speech sounds, which make up words and sentences.

    Depending on the extent of the difficulties, unclear speech can impact significantly on how well a child can interact with adults and their peers and can affect the development of language and social skills. A child who is having difficulties being understood can become frustrated and angry which may lead to behavioural issues. Articulation is also important in literacy skills such as reading and spelling out of words.

  • FLUENCY

    Fluency refers to continuity, smoothness, rate, and effort in speech production. All speakers are disfluent at times. They may hesitate when speaking, use fillers (“like” or “uh”), or repeat a word or phrase. These are called typical disfluencies or nonfluencies.

  • EXPRESSIVE LANGUAGE

    The ability to use language to express our needs, thoughts, and ideas to others using gestures, words, phrases, or sentences. 

     Some common expressive language concerns present as decreased vocabulary, inability to use a sentence or phrase accurately, difficulty sharing thoughts or having a conversation.

  • RECEPTIVE LANGUAGE

    The ability to understand and comprehend spoken or written language. This is the "input" of language. ​

    Receptive language concerns may present as difficulty following directions, difficulty learning new words, or an overall slow progression of language development.