At Affinity Speech Pathology families experience a unique and high quality service.  We don’t just ‘do therapy’ – we do so much more.  Our therapists provide family centred care.  This means that we:

• Listen
• Set goals with the family
• Educate and empower the family on how to help their child
• Work collaboratively with the whole team – family, educators, other therapists
• Problem solve with families
• Individualise therapy sessions for each child because each child has a unique set of strengths.

• Helping individuals to improve their speech, language, literacy and communication skills;
• Empowering families by equipping them with the skills and knowledge they need to help their child;
• Helping children to see that they CAN do it;
• Working with people in the child’s community to create a supportive communication environment;
• Making therapy fun and meaningful.

We are dedicated to ongoing learning and professional development, to make sure that we are up to date with the latest evidenced based ways of helping your child.

Some of the training we have completed includes –

• Hanen It Takes Two To Talk – to help late talkers;
• DIR Floortime – to help families whose children have developmental differences;
• Lidcombe and RESTART DCM – to help children who stutter;
• Sounds-Write and Read;
• PROMPT, DTTC, Nuffield Dyspraxia Program and REST therapies – to help children with speech sound difficulties;
• PODD – to help children use alternative ways of communicating;
• LAMP – to help children use voice output devices to communicate;
• Trauma and Attachment – to better understand the link between trauma, brain development and communication difficulties.
• Gestalt Language Processing – to help children to learn language.