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
- Holding a conversation
- Telling stories and re-telling events
Pragmatics (Social interaction)
- Communicating in a social contexts
- Building social awareness, social confidence and self-advocacy with other people