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