Speech pathologists are trained to assess, diagnose, and treat difficulties and disorders impacting a child’s capacity to communicate or develop communication skills. 

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Using Zoom for encrypted telehealth appointments, Ruby’s Room can help with:

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• Speech sound difficulties from typical errors such as lisps, to more uncommon sound substitutions, unclear speech, and Childhood Apraxia of Speech.
   

• Receptive Language skills including understanding what is said by others, following instructions, making connections between words and concepts.
   

• Expressive Language skills including being delayed to use words, difficulties connecting words and making sentences, difficulty clearly expressing their ideas, difficulty using grammar or vocabulary.
   

• Language difficulties related to :

  • Developmental language Disorder

  • Early intervention for late talkers

  • Natural Language Acquisition/Gestalt Language Processing
     

• Literacy difficulties including linking sounds to letters, reading letters and words, segmenting and blending sounds in words, retaining complex sounds (e.g., consonant and vowel digraphs),  slow/effortful reading, difficulty with reading comprehension, errors in spelling, and difficulty constructing written words/sentences/texts.

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• Stuttering by identifying the presence and severity of dysflency, such as when a child becomes stuck on words, repeats parts of words, or even whole words or phrases.

 

• Social skills/Pragmatic skills including difficulties with listening, attention, initiating and maintaining conversation, understanding humour, recognising emotions, asking and answering questions, and repairing communication breakdown.

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• Play skills including helping children strengthen communication through parallel play, joint play, joint attention, following the child’s lead, and creating play routines.

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• Parent coaching