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Speech Therapy at Your Home, Daycare or School
Nexus Therapy offers speech therapy at home and on-line for children and adults in cities across Alberta and B.C. Our licensed speech-language pathologists offer the convenience of customized speech therapy programs for children in the home, daycare and school setting. Our therapists come equipped with all the materials required to provide effective treatment. Valuable parent training is provided to help accelerate your child's progress. Speech therapy service are covered under most private insurance plans, Autism Funding and Jordan's Principle Funding.
SPEECH THERAPY FOR PRE-SCHOOLERS
ABA THERAPY AT YOUR HOME
Speech Therapy at Your Home
Parent who contact us often have concerns that their child is either not talking enough or having trouble speaking clearly. Nexus Therapy offers speech therapy programs for children in the comfort of their home. We begin by conducting an initial assessment to better understand the nature of the difficulty that a child is having and then develop an individualized treatment plan. We provide speech therapy to address a variety of concerns including: unclear speech, insufficient vocabulary, language delay, weak comprehension, stuttering and language based learning difficulties. Parent education and training is an important part of the services we offer to ensure that on-going support is being provided between therapy sessions and to help facilitate progress within a shorter time frame. Our at home speech therapy programs focus on developing core skills to help children become better listeners and communicators.
EARLY
INTERVENTION
EARLY SPEECH-LANGUAGE INTERVENTION AT HOME
Left untreated, speech-language delays and disorders can affect your child’s ability to interact with others and his/her quality of life. A communication difficulty can limit your child’s educational and career potential and affect them on a daily basis. Our therapists offer family focused care and collaborate with parents, teachers and caregivers to help children with understanding language, following directions, expressive communication, social interaction and learning.
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AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS
UNCLEAR SPEECH
Articulation Therapy
Contacting a Speech-Language Pathologist is recommended when a child is not speaking clearly. Difficulties with unclear speech and not being understood properly can lead to frustration and impact on a child's confidence as a speaker. Nexus Therapy offers customized speech therapy programs for children who are having difficulty with articulation, motor planning, speech disorders, unclear speech, lateral lisps and inter-dental lisps. Our speech-language pathologists will begin with a speech assessment and develop an individualized treatment plan to help improve your child's speech clarity and intelligibility. Parent training and home work practice materials are provided to help accelerate progress. Call our care coordinator for further information or to schedule a comprehensive speech evaluation for your child at home.
TREATMENT FOR UNCLEAR SPEECH
A child may present with unclear speech for a variety of reasons. By age 4 a child is expeted to be intelligible 90% of the time to an unfamiliar listener. When a child has a speech difficulty, they are generally aware of it. Children who speak differently from other children know that they do, and this can significantly erode their confidence. Our speech-language pathologists provide speech therapy to address a variety of speech related difficulties including articulation and phonological delays, motor speech disorders as well as issues such as lisping and turning Rs into Ws.
SPEECH THERAPY FOR AUTISM
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Speech Therapy for Autism
Problems with language comprehension, insufficient vocabulary and expressive communication are common challenges for many child with autism spectrum disorder.
Nexus Speech Therapy offers speech therapy at home or daycare to help children with autism develop the language base they need for understanding and communicating, acquiring new skills and getting ready for school. Our speech therapy programs focus on developing functional language skills including:
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following directions
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requesting
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answering questions
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telling a personal story
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social interaction
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inter-active play skills
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conversation skills
For more information, call our care coordinator and speak with the supervisor at your child's daycare.
AT HOME THERAPY FOR FOR AUTISM
Speech-language therapy support is import for helping children with asd develop the skills they need to understand language, learn, communicate and interact with others. Our customized speech therapy programs are developed to help children develop functional comprehnsion and communication skills and better prepare them for school. Speech therapy support at daycare is available to help children with following routines, participating in group learning activiites such as circle time and learning how to play and interact with typically developing children.
READING & WRITING
ACADEMIC PROGRAMS
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Reading & Literacy
A significant number of children struggle with learning to read and write at grade level because they do not receive appropriate or adequate literacy support at school. Nexus Speech Therapy offers evidence based reading programs to help children develop reading skills including decoding and sight word recognition to improve reading fluency. Our reading and literacy programs focus on learning to read, reading to learn and equipping children with the language base needed to better understand written text and become more effective communicators. Nexus Therapy offers language and academic support for:
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decoding
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sight word recognition
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reading comprehension
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writing mechanics
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oral & written narratives
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procedural writing
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descriptive writing
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expository writing
SPEECH THERAPY & HOME SCHOOLING
Learning within the classroom setting is a common challenge for children with ADHD and Autism Spectrum Disorder. Many children who experience difficulties with listening, focusing and working independently at school are able to learn more readily with one to one instruction. Nexus Speech Therapy offers individualized academic and home schooling support programs to help your child advance in understanding the school curriculum, study skills and written assignments.