What Works

Some of the treatment modalities we use include:

• Alternative and Augmentative Communication (eg. keyword sign and visual supports)
• Early Start Denver Model
• The Westmead Feelings Program
• Sounds Write Approach to literacy
• Incidental Teaching (ie. using naturally occurring opportunities)
• Enhanced Milieu Therapy (ie. utilising everyday environments)
• Child-Oriented and Clinician-Oriented stimulation techniques (ie. dependant on the child’s style and temperament)
• Cued Articulation (ie. for speech sounds)
• Nuffield (ie. for Childhood Apraxia of Speech)
• Parent-Child Interaction training (eg. Hanen ‘It Takes Two to Talk’ early language strategies)
• Reading and Language Intervention (RLI) for Children with Down Syndrome - Down Syndrome Education International
• Lidcombe Program (ie. for early stuttering)
• Syllable-Timed Speech (ie. for primary-school aged stuttering)
• Sequential - Oral - Sensory (SOS) approach to feeding