Our Speech-Language Pathologists support students with speech and language difficulties in accessing curriculum.
Speech-Language Pathology services may include one or more of the following services:
Referrals are initiated at school team meetings with Speech-Language Services staff, school staff and parent(s) or guardian(s). Students are referred for the following reasons:
Our team consists of Speech-Language Pathologists (SLP) and Communicative Disorders Assistant (CDA). A CDA works with an SLP to provide support to students. CDA does not work independently from a SLP.
We use the following words and phrases when assessing a student's speech:
Receptive language: The understanding of language.
Expressive language: the ability to use words, signs, symbols to express one's thoughts, feelings and needs. This includes grammar, vocabulary, syntax and conversational skills.
Articulation: the physical production of speech sounds.
Fluency: how smoothly sounds, words and phrases flow together during connected speech.
Voice: the sound produced by vibration of the vocal folds including loudness, voice quality and resonance.
Phonological awareness: the ability to notice, think about and manipulate the sounds, syllables and words of a language.
Social Communication: using verbal and non-verbal means to interact with others.
Literacy: reading, decoding and writing.
For more information call your child's principal or our Student Services department at 905-576-6150 ext. 22279.