Templestowe Lower Speech Pathologist

Speech Clinic Templestowe Lower supports children across their childhood and teenage years who live in the Templestowe Lower location. We strongly advocate for early intervention. Recognising signs of potential speech, language, social, or literacy difficulties is important, as this helps us to minimise future impacts on academic success and a child’s social life.

Should we wait and see?
We’re always asked, “when is the best age to start speech therapy?”. Earliest is always best. Speech Therapists can provide therapy and complete speech pathology assessments to kids from 16 months to 18 years old. There is strong evidence supporting early intervention. When a speech therapist can support a child from birth until 4-5 years old, they can reduce the long-term impacts of a communication or language disorder. This gives our children the best chance to be ready for school. Sometimes speech, language, literacy, fluency and social interaction difficulties can become noticeable throughout a child’s schooling years. We also love supporting school-aged kids to reach their academic and social potential.