Our Speech & Language Services

We offer comprehensive assessment of your speech, language, and/or cognitive-communication abilities and needs.  This process allows us to identify specific areas of difficulty, as well as relative strengths, in order to target the best therapy for you.

Therapy for acquired motor speech disorders such as dysarthria and apraxia of speech.  Treatment may focus on articulation, voice, resonance, vocal intonation/stress, and/or speech rate in order to achieve your best possible speech and ensure that others understand you well.  Special consideration is given to the contexts in which you regularly communicate (e.g. noisy environments).

Speech and language therapy targeting areas of need in all four modalities: auditory comprehension, oral expression (e.g. word finding), reading comprehension, and written expression.  Treatment will focus on language and topics relevant to your personal communication contexts, as well as the use of compensatory strategies.  Depending on your goals, treatment may include targeted speech and language technology, where appropriate.

We offer therapy for higher level complex language expression and comprehension, focusing on your particular areas of need (e.g. skills required for participation in school or work).  Intervention may target areas such as auditory-verbal attention/concentration, information processing, verbal memory, discourse planning and organisation, verbal reasoning, and/or executive functioning.

While maximizing your communication skills, we teach you strategies to compensate for areas of difficulty, in order to increase your confidence and improve your participation in life, work, and/or school activities that are meaningful to you.  We provide the opportunity for you to practice these through activities such as targeted exercises, conversation, roleplay, simulated situations, and real-life practice.  Targeted self-evaluation is a helpful component of this training.

Communication always involves a partner. In accordance with best practices and the Life Participation Approach to Aphasia (LPAA), we offer counselling and training in supportive strategies to communication partners, when needed, in order to enable the person with the brain injury to participate more actively and meaningfully in conversational exchanges and life roles / contexts.