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10 Ways Speech Therapy Helps Transgender Individuals Achieve Comfortable and Authentic Communication in Toronto

Every person deserves to communicate in a way that feels authentic, confident, and true to who they are. For many transgender and gender-diverse individuals, communication is an important part of gender expression. While appearance and personal style may align with...

9 Ways Speech Therapy Supports Memory, Thinking, and Communication After an Acquired Brain Injury in Toronto

An Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) can have a significant impact on a person's daily life. Whether caused by a stroke, traumatic brain injury (TBI), infection, tumour, lack of oxygen, or another neurological condition, an acquired brain injury can affect much more than...

8 Ways Speech Therapy Helps Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Communicate More Confidently in Toronto

Every child deserves the opportunity to express their thoughts, needs, emotions, and ideas with confidence. For many children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in Toronto, communication can be one of the most significant challenges they face. Some children may have...

10 Ways Speech Therapy Helps Stroke Survivors Regain Communication and Confidence in Toronto

A stroke can change a person's life in an instant. While many people recognise the physical effects of a stroke, fewer realise how significantly it can affect communication. Stroke survivors may experience difficulty speaking, understanding language, reading, writing,...

7 Ways Speech Therapy Can Improve Your Business Communication Skills in Toronto

Strong communication skills are one of the most valuable assets in today's professional world. Whether you're leading meetings, presenting ideas, negotiating with clients, interviewing for a new role, or networking with colleagues, the way you communicate can...

Why Do Stroke Patients Lose Speech? Understanding Brain Damage and Language

One of the most frightening consequences of stroke is the sudden loss of the ability to speak, understand language, read, or write. A person who was articulate and communicative one moment may be unable to form words, find names for familiar objects, or understand...

Speech Therapy Goals for Children with Autism: What Parents Should Know

Receiving an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnosis for your child brings many questions — and for many families, one of the first is: what does speech therapy actually work on, and how does it help? Understanding the goals of ASD speech therapy can help parents...

Women’s Voice and Leadership Communication: Speech Therapy Across the GTA

Your voice is the primary tool through which you lead, influence, and communicate your expertise. For women in professional and leadership roles across Ontario, how the voice is used — its clarity, authority, pace, resonance, and presence — shapes how ideas are...

How Voice Can Impact Gender Expression in Social and Professional Settings

Voice is one of the most immediate and revealing aspects of human identity. Before a name is given, before a pronoun is confirmed, before any visual cue registers — a voice speaks. It conveys warmth or authority, familiarity or distance, and in many social and...

Developmental Language Disorder (DLD): The Hidden Diagnosis You Should Know About

What Is DLD—and Why Don’t More Parents Know About It? Imagine your child is bright, social, and curious—but struggles to follow instructions, tell a story, or understand classroom lessons. You might assume it’s a learning issue or attention problem. But for many...

Wear Your Helmet!

by admin | Jul 6, 2012

The summer is a time to enjoy beautiful weather, rays of sunshine and the company of friends of family. With this fantastic, fun-filled season comes outdoor sports and activities such as cycling, football, baseball and more. Cycling, for example, is a reasonably safe...

Early Literacy as a way to Enrich Language Development

by admin | Jul 6, 2012

It’s never too early to introduce shared book reading to your child’s daily routine. Shared book reading is a fun and exciting way to engage with your child and enrich language development and exposure. It is widely believed that the more comfortable children are...

I am proud to be a Speech-Language Pathologist (S-LP)

by admin | Jul 6, 2012

At a recent staff meeting, one of my co-workers exclaimed that her school aged client told her that she wanted to be an S-LP just like her speech-language pathologist. Another co-worker told me of a client who did a project on her for school as “someone who made a...

The Speech Therapy Centres of Canada is working together with Senior Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) therapists to collaborate on a one-of-a-kind Canadian program

by admin | Jun 11, 2012

The Speech Therapy Centres of Canada is pleased to announce an exciting new service to clients – Applied Behaviour Analysis therapy. ABA therapy is an effective technique in treating children with autism as it breaks down skills into simpler, more manageable tasks....

5 Stages of Storytelling in Gauging Language Development

by admin | Jun 1, 2012

Bedtime stories are part of the routines in many households. Most of the time, parents are the ones reading stories to their children, but learning how to tell a story is also a part of every child’s language development. Just as their vocabulary evolves, so do their...

Teach Your Child to Lip Read for Speech Development

by admin | Mar 23, 2012

A few weeks ago an article in the Globe and Mail caught my eye: “Babies Likely Lip-read When Learning to Talk”. This article had some interesting information about how babies learn to speak and reinforced some of the speech strategies that I often suggest as a...

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Services include assessment and therapy programs that address your communication concerns after 18 years of age.

CHILDREN

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Markham

Head Office and Main Clinic

8300 Woodbine Avenue, Suite 200, Markham, ON L3R 9Y7

Tel: 905.886.5941 | Fax: 905.886.2362

Ajax

Kids Clinic

300 Rossland Rd. E. Suite 301. Ajax, ON L1Z 0M1

Sudbury

In-home services at this location only

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