Speaking in Sentences

Learning new words, speaking in sentences in the right order, using the right grammar, using the right time concept words, describing sequences of actions or events and telling stories.

Understanding words and sentences

Understanding what people are saying, understanding words, and understanding sentences.

Inference and Verbal Reasoning

Learning to make predictions about what will happen next, to explain why things have happened, to understand the thoughts, feelings, intensions and motivations of the characters in pictures/stories and to answer questions such as who, what, where, when, why and how.

Speech Sounds

Learning to pronounce the sounds in words clearly, correctly and consistently. Learning to hear the difference between sounds. Developing phonological awareness skills such as syllable segmentation, rhyme, initial sound identification and final sound identification.

Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) / Verbal Dyspraxia

Learning to plan the movements of the lips, tongue and jaw to make speech sounds correctly and smoothly and with the correct stress pattern.

Conversational Skills / Social and Emotional Skills

Building confidence in your conversational skills or your ability to interact with other people, being able to talk about your own emotions, developing your vocabulary for emotion words.

Early Communication and Interaction Skills

Using techniques such as Intensive Interaction to develop your child’s joint attention and their enjoyment in play, using verbal and visual techniques to develop your child’s language and communication skills for children who are preverbal or children who only have a few words