Speech-language therapy is a profession that focuses on preventing, assessing, diagnosing, and treating speech, language, social communication, cognitive communication, feeding, voice and swallowing disorders in children and adults with neurotically development or individuals with special needs.

At an early age, speech-language therapy focuses on the development of early communication skills, attention, comprehension and play skills. However, on a later stage the focus becomes more on complex skills like grammar, sentence formation, clarity of speech, reading and writing skills.

Before starting therapy, a speech and language therapist conducts different standardized and non-standardized evaluations to gain detailed information about child’s strengths and weaknesses, then an SLT builds a comprehensive treatment plan that targets areas in need of development according to child’s chronological and cognitive age.

During speech therapy sessions with children, a speech therapist interacts with children through talking, playing, using books, pictures, or toys to stimulate and modify the environment to be convenient for child’s language elicitation. In addition to that, a speech therapist uses evidence-based manoeuvres and techniques to assist your child according to his stage of development. A speech therapist also helps children and adolescents who communicate using alternative augmentative devices. As well as the direct support to the individual, a speech-language therapist also helps with guiding, educating, and supporting parents and care givers of children with speech and language difficulties to ensure an effective follow up in other settings the child interacts with.