Language disorders and delays
We can help with:
Receptive difficulties (comprehension/understanding of what others say to us)
- Developing joint attention
- Developing auditory memory
- Developing listening skills (auditory processing)
- Following directions
- Understanding questions and language concepts
Expressive difficulties (the structure and content of what we say to others)
- Early communicative gestures, sound play and development of babble
- First words and combining words
- Expanding vocabulary
- Using verbs and grammar (pronouns, word endings, plurals, tenses etc) to build sentence length and complexity
- Answering questions effectively
- Holding a conversation
- Telling stories and re-telling events
Pragmatic difficulties (Social interaction skills)
- Understanding the social aspects of communication such as greeting, getting someone’s attention, making eye contact, turn taking, protesting etc.
- Communicating effectively in a social contexts