Therapy

We provide highly targeted and evidence based therapy to help you meet your goals. Our job is not to set your goals for you, but to help you break it down into smaller and more manageable steps using evidence-based treatment methods. We use the information from your comprehensive communication assessment to help us decide the best way forward for you.

Therapy comes in all different shapes and sizes. It might be working on articulating speech sounds more clearly, using an alphabet board to communicate or mentoring you, your family and friends and/or carers on how to have better conversations together. We use counselling techniques and motivational interviewing throughout therapy to help you get the most out of your therapy sessions.

Treatment might include working on one or more of the below (this list is not exhaustive):

  • Speech therapy for articulation and clarity
  • Strengthening exercises 
  • Oral sensorimotor therapy or oral desensitisation therapy
  • Word-finding therapy
  • Phonological therapy
  • Receptive language therapy
  • Expressive language therapy
  • Melodic Intonation Therapy
  • Semantic Feature Analysis
  • Colourful Semantics
  • Reading and writing skills
  • Dysfluency or stammering therapy
  • Voice therapy
  • Lego Therapy
  • Attention Autism
  • Signing
  • Alternative and Augmentative Communication or AAC
  • Intensive interaction
  • Cause and effect
  • Communication books, guides and passports
  • Cognitive Communication Therapy
  • Memory books
  • High-tech Assistive technology, such as iPads with a communication app
  • Social skills and pragmatics
  • Communication Partner training
  • Mentoring friends, family and care team on how to support your communication

We often set “homework” in between sessions. These tasks are for you to practice the skills learnt in therapy, consolidate those skills and to gain mastery of those skills. We often say that we should be treated as a guide to your therapy and you actually become your own therapist. The more ownership you have over your therapy the more successful you will be. We work with individuals to fit the homework into their lives and make it practical and engaging and we do ask that people commit to completing these tasks.

Please contact us here if you feel you would benefit from our therapy service.