We provide speech therapy online for children, adolescents and adults with speech language disorders.
We are a registered NDIS provider and use an inclusive approach to therapy, where the person can be in the comfort and familiarity of their own home.
How can speech therapy benefit people with speech language disorders?
Speech therapy can offer significant benefits for individuals with speech and language disorders in a variety of ways:
1. **Improvement in Communication Skills**: Speech therapy helps individuals develop clearer speech, whether it’s through improving articulation, fluency, or voice modulation, which can enhance their ability to communicate effectively.
2. **Language Development**: For those with language disorders, therapy can assist in improving vocabulary, grammar, and overall language comprehension. This is particularly important for children who are still developing these skills.
3. **Social Skills**: Speech therapy often integrates social communication training, which helps individuals learn how to engage in conversations, understand social cues, and develop appropriate responses in social settings.
4. **Confidence Building**: As clients make progress in their communication skills, they often experience increased self-esteem and confidence, allowing them to engage more fully in social and academic settings.
5. **Personalized Interventions**: Speech therapists assess the unique needs of each individual and create customized treatment plans that target specific goals, making therapy more effective.
6. **Coping Strategies**: Individuals dealing with speech disorders often experience frustration and anxiety. Therapists can teach coping strategies to manage these feelings, promoting a more positive outlook toward communication challenges.
7. **Family Involvement**: Therapy often includes educating family members about the disorder and how to support the individual at home, which can enhance progress and improve communication dynamics within the family.
8. **Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)**: For individuals with severe speech difficulties, speech therapy may include training in the use of AAC devices, enabling them to communicate more effectively.
9. **Auditory Processing Skills**: Therapy can help improve skills related to listening and understanding spoken language, which can be crucial for academic success and effective communication.
10. **Early Intervention**: For children with speech and language disorders, early intervention through speech therapy can lead to better long-term outcomes, helping them catch up with their peers in communication skills.
Overall, speech therapy plays a critical role in helping individuals with speech and language disorders improve their communication abilities, which enhances their quality of life and interactions with others.
Services for children, adolescents and adults
We have speech therapists who work with children, adolescents and adults, and we have therapists who have experience with speech language disorders. Read more about our therapists here.
NDIS registered provider
We are a registered NDIS provider and work with self-managed, plan-managed and agency-managed clients.
If your are an NDIS provider or support coordinator we can provide reliable speech therapy for clients with speech language disorders in any location. Refer a client and we’ll connect you to the right clinician.
Is online speech therapy effective?
Yes! A growing body of evidence shows that online delivery of therapy can be as effective as face to face. Online therapy has many other benefits too, including being convenient and accessible for people in regional and rural areas.
How does online speech therapy work?
At Umbo online therapy is not just zoom plus business-as-usual. It’s much more diverse than simply videoconferencing. Umbo therapists provide an individualised approach to each person, using the latest evidence, and a variety of technologies and engagement techniques.
Umbo champions person-centred therapy. It means the person and their family/support people leads the conversation. We believe that the most effective therapy occurs when support is given in the environment where the person lives, learns, works or plays. Therefore we work with the family, and teach skills to you or to other supporters. This means you’re achieving real-life goals, rather than just achieving goals in a clinic.
We are a certified social enterprise helping Australian families access allied health services.