Speech Clinic Wollongong provides speech therapy across their childhood and teenage years who live in the Wollongong location. We are strong advocates 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.
Can I just wait and see?
Frequently, we’re asked, “when is the best age to start speech therapy?”. As soon as possible is always best. Speech Therapists can provide therapy and complete speech pathology assessments to children 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 kids their 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 love to support school-aged kids to reach their full academic and social potential.
