At Hockley Speech Pathology, we provide flexible, personalised therapy designed to meet a wide range of communication needs.
Our services include individual therapy, comprehensive assessments, goal planning, training and education for families and educators.
Whether at our clinic, in homes, schools, or community settings, we’re committed to delivering practical, evidence-based support that makes a lasting impact.
Our assessment may involve informal (play and chatting) and formal (completing a test that provides us with a score).
Often assessment will involve both of these. We often complete an initial assessment at our first one or two meetings and continue to review and monitor a client’s progress as we work through our therapy program.
Once we have an idea of a client’s strengths and weaknesses, we discuss these together to determine what our joint priorities are.
This forms our initial therapy goals and from this we develop a treatment plan, discuss frequency of therapy sessions and any practise that will be carried out by others (carers, parents, therapy assistants, teacher aides) in between sessions.
These goals are reviewed and updated as a client progresses.
Our individual therapy sessions are typically held in our clinic. Individual therapy sessions target treatment plans to reach our agreed goals.
Sessions may involve education for parents and caregivers, work and education for the client and always elements of play and enjoyment.
Sometimes we find that a client may benefit from work within a group setting.
Groups are tailored depending on the clients we have and what they are working on.
As our clients allow, we have offered groups working on social thinking at school and at the clinic and communication device groups working in the community to use our devices at the shops and with each other in the community.
We can provide formal education or training sessions to school or support staff relating to an individual client’s needs and program.
We also provide information and practical hands on workshops to Educators regarding speech and language development, literacy, Alternative and Augmentative Communication systems, social thinking and social skills.
