Therapy For Adolescents & Adults With Disabilities
At Eastside Speech we see many adolescents and adults with disabilities who wish to improve their speech and language as well as their communication and social skills. Our speech therapy services are effective, focusing on activities that our clients enjoy. Our speech therapists are able to work closely with clients and their family members and/or support workers to help achieve their goals. Improvements with speech and language skills can have a big impact in improving people’s quality of life, sense of wellbeing and overall mental health.
Personalised Intellectual Disability Speech Therapy
Our speech pathologists tailor their speech and language therapy services to cater for individuals needs so it can address a wide range of challenges like:
- Learning to communicate with speech
- Learning to communicate using Alternative Augmentative Communication (AAC)
- Improving pronunciation
- Learning to communicate more effectively
- Improving social skills
- Improving Communication of wants, ideas, and desires at home, the workplace or community
- Improving social communication and social skills
- Improving their ability to understand what is heard
- Improving reading and writing
- Helping clients who have hearing impairment
- Helping clients who have autism spectrum disorder
- Helping clients who have speech disorders including motor speech delay and apraxia of speech
- Helping clients who have learning disability
- Helping clients who have intellectual disability
We are able to see clients who have National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) packages or benefits from private health funds to help them achieve their goals.
Frequently Asked Speech Therapy Questions
For more information about Eastside Speech Solutions and how speech therapy can assist with speech and language difficulties: