Welcome!

My name is Alexia Hyams and I'm a Speech Pathologist in the Hills District, Sydney. My website is here to provide you with details of my services that will help your child grow with excellent language and communication skills.

I run a professional, friendly and personalised clinic in Kellyville, that provides speech, language and communication therapy for children.
By engaging your child in fun activities and games, they’ll begin to achieve speech development milestones and have loads of fun doing so!

I provide specialised services in the following areas:

Pronunciation

When young children are growing, they develop speech sounds in a predictable order.
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It is normal for young children to make speech errors as their language develops; however, children with a speech sound disorders will be difficult to understand when other children their age are already speaking clearly.

An assessment looks at all sounds at the beginning, middle, and end of words and identifies which sounds are difficult for your child to pronounce.

Your child’s speech will then be compared to typical speech development milestones for their age to determine if support is needed. 

Language

Kids’ Speech Therapy works with children who:

• Are not yet using language to communicate

• May not be using the same amount of language as others their age

• Are not using the right words in their sentences e.g. saying ‘blowed’ instead of ‘blew’

Language is broken up into two categories:

• Receptive language: the ability to understanding what others are communicating
• Expressive language: the ability to communicate your needs and wants.

A assessment can determine if your child’s difficulties are in expressive language, receptive language or both.

Stuttering

Stuttering is characterised by interruptions to the flow of speech, such as repeating sounds and words, hesitating or prolonging sounds.

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