Speech Therapy

Our team of fun loving speech therapists are trained to deliver ‘best fit’ services to help children and young adults overcome challenges in:

Speech Therapy for Kids

Speech Pathology for children and young adults supports the development of their ability to speak, listen, understand language, and build social skills. These foundational skills help them engage meaningfully with others in various settings and across different stages of life. It also fosters emotional awareness—helping children and young adults recognize, understand, and express their feelings, which in turn enhances their ability to play and connect with peers.

Whether a child is non-verbal, uses unclear or nonsensical speech, struggles with frustration when trying to communicate, or has limited play and social interaction skills, Speech Pathology offers effective support to address these challenges.

Ultimately, Speech Pathology helps make everyday communication, play, and social interaction easier. It does so by developing key skills in children, equipping parents and caregivers with practical strategies for home, and guiding educators to create supportive learning environments—both in the classroom and the broader community.

Why Speech Therapy?

Speech Pathology supports children and young adults in developing essential skills for everyday communication, play, and social interaction across various environments—such as home, childcare, preschool, school, extracurricular activities, and even the workplace.

While the primary focus is on building the individual’s communication abilities, our Speech Pathologists work collaboratively with families, educators, carers, and employers. Together, they implement practical strategies to enhance development or provide support where certain skills are still emerging. In some cases, communication aids may also be introduced to help bridge the gap.

Speech Pathology not only benefits the individual—it also makes communication easier and more effective for everyone around them, including family members, caregivers, teachers, and colleagues. At Kid Sense Speech Pathology, we integrate therapy into everyday life—so it doesn’t feel like therapy, it just feels like living.

Occupational Therapy can help meet Speech Therapy goals

Why Speech Pathology can help meet Occupational Therapy goals?

Children and young adults often develop a range of skills in an interconnected way, making it difficult to separate one area of growth from another. Because of this complex and overlapping development—and the constantly changing demands they face—challenges in one area are often best addressed through a combination of Occupational Therapy and Speech Pathology. In fact, progress in one area frequently supports growth in the other.

Some children and young adults benefit from engaging in both therapies at the same time, while others may make more progress by focusing on Occupational Therapy for a term before transitioning to Speech Pathology, or vice versa. Your therapist can recommend the most suitable approach for your child or young adult, including when and if Speech Pathology should be introduced.

Occupational Therapy can directly help Speech Therapy by developing:

Improved Sensory Processing difficulties which then allows them to sit and attend to task for longer and engage in tasks or play more thoroughly.
Enhanced self regulation so they do not get so upset and “melt down” in the face of a minor upset but instead manage a slight challenge with a proportionate response.
Greater physical ability so the child/young adults sits upright at a table or on the mat, which in turn increases the duration of their attention for language tasks such as listening to books being read, answering the teacher’s questions, or liaising with employment colleagues.

Kid Sense provides both Speech Pathology and Occupational Therapy in clinics, in the home and in schools (variable), ensuring the child/young adult enjoy a truly integrated multi-disciplinary service.