Comprehensive Therapy Services for Every Need
Learn more about our tailored programs.
Speech Therapy
Speech involves coordinated movements of the lungs, vocal cords, and oral structures. It encompasses components like voice, articulation, phonology, and fluency. 
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Voice originates from the vocal cords, resonating through oral and nasal cavities. 
Articulation involve oral-facial structures commanded by the brain. Therapy involves carefully tailored plans to improve oral-motor skills and production of phonemes (speech sounds). 
Fluency/Stuttering refers to uninterrupted speech flow. Developmental dysfluency often resolves by age seven, but persistent stuttering benefits from early intervention, particularly for children under twelve.
Attention, Memory and Executive Functions
Cognitive skills essential for time management, completing complex tasks, managing school work, planning and negotiating social activities.
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Attention directs sensory focus and thought. Listening or multitasking requires forms of focused or divided attention. Therapy improves listening skills, especially for children with attention difficulties.
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Memory  involves encoding, storing, and recalling information like words, events, or procedures. Issues can stem from congenital factors or trauma, with therapy outcomes depending on the root cause.
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Executive functions include planning, strategic deployment of effort, and approaches to overcome obstacles. These are primarily functions of the frontal cortex. Difficulties here often result from head injuries but may also occur for other reasons. Therapy focuses on improving such skills in academic and social contexts.
Language Therapy
Language allows children to participate in academic activities and fully engage in rewarding social interaction.
Syntax refers to sentence structures and language rules involving parts such as pronouns and verbs, which develop with practice. 
Content  involves the meaning within words and sentences. Delayed vocabulary development risks classroom misunderstandings and hinders social participation, but intensive intervention can close developmental gaps.
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Language processing entails encoding, analyzing, and organizing language via cognitive and executive systems. This set of complex skills underpins learning, socializing, and everyday functioning. Therapy addresses related issues based on individual needs.
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​Social pragmatics consists of mechanisms that engage, maintain, and end social interactions. Difficulties with social pragmatics affect how individuals manage emotions and social relationships, particularly when conflict is involved. We look at several aspects of social communication including: level of assertiveness and responsiveness, social etiquette (greeting, politeness…), and pragmatic mechanisms (initiate, turn take, topic maintenance, request, humour, clarify, negate, inquire, warn, social empathy….). Deficiencies, whether environmental or neurological, can lead to strained social relationships. Intervention fosters improved social integration, particularly when caregivers participate.
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​This streamlined overview highlights these areas' interconnected nature and the importance of taylored therapy interventions for optimal development and functionality.
Assistive Devices
Augmentative Communication
We have experience implementing low and high-tech augmentative communication systems using readily available technologies as well as special programs such as PECS (Picture Exchange Communication System). We first complete a thorough assessment of our client's skills and environmental needs to determine what approach would be most effective. We are also able to refer clients to authorized augmentative communication centers for high-tech communication devices when this is needed.
