What We Do

We provide speech therapy assessments and treatment to children who have difficulty with speech, language, and/or literacy.

 

What that means:

Speech refers to articulation and motor speech skills.

Language refers to expressive and receptive challenges, including social communication.

Literacy refers to reading and writing skills.


Learn more about each of these areas and how speech therapy can help below!


We offer speech therapy for preschool, school-age, and high school children in the following areas:

  • Articulation

  • Motor Speech/Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS)

  • Literacy (Reading and Writing)

  • Expressive and Receptive Language Development

  • Stuttering

  • Social Communication

  • Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)

The best speech therapy begins with an assessment of your child’s communication skills. During the assessment we will obtain background information and conduct play-based assessments to identify your child’s communication difficulties. Based on this information we will work collaboratively with you to develop therapy goals and a personalized treatment plan. Therapy will always be individualized to target your child’s specific needs.

ABOUT SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPY

What is the difference between a speech disorder and a language disorder? Speech therapy is a, catch all name describing treatment for all communication difficulties.

SPEECH relates to the physical production of sounds that we use for speech. For example, a child struggling to produce the “r” sound, a child with a lisp, or child who struggles to sequence sounds together would have a speech sound disorder.

LANGUAGE refers to expressing oneself through words, gestures, or other forms of communication. Language disorders can be expressive (the child with the language disorder struggles to speak) or receptive (the child with the language disorder struggles to understand language).

FLUENCY (often called stuttering) refers to when there are breaks in the rhythm of speech. No speech is completely fluent but if the dysfluencies are causing a child emotional distress or make them difficult to understand, speech therapy can help!


LITERACY refers to the ability to read and write. Children who are struggling to learn their letters and the sounds they make, children struggling to read and/or understand what they are reading, and children struggling with writing may have a literacy delay.

Children with literacy disorders such as dyslexia (difficulty reading) and dysgraphia (difficulty writing) fall into this category as well. If you’re interested you can click to learn more about how SLPs can help with literacy.

It is also possible for a child to have a combination of difficulties!

 LOCATION

We are located in Kanata and located in Waterloo, Ontario.

We see clients in Kanata, Stittsville, Carp, Richmond, and the Ottawa valley!
We are also happy to see clients from anywhere in Ontario. This means that there is always a speech therapist near you! We specialize in therapy for clients who find it difficult to access in-person services for any reason. If you’re interested, you can click to learn more about virtual speech therapy.

We provide speech therapy to clients in (but not limited to) the following locations:

Ottawa (K2P 0W7) / Kanata (K2L 3A6) / Stittsville / Carp / Richmond

We serve the Ottawa Valley!
Renfrew (K7V 0B5) / Arnprior / Perth
Pembroke / Petawawa
Carleton Place / Smith’s Falls / Kemptville

We also serve Southwestern Ontario!
Kitchener (N2J 2C4) / Waterloo (N2L 5S9) / Cambridge
Elmira
Wellington county / Guelph / Fergus / Elora
And surrounding areas!

The GTA
Toronto / Mississauga / Oakville / Scarborough and more!


A huge benefit of virtual speech therapy is that clients who were previously too far geographically from an SLP are now easily able to receive speech, language, and literacy therapy.

We are happy to take on clients from anywhere in Ontario!