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Speech Clinic
Macquarie University Speech Clinic
| Location: | Level 2, 299 Lane Cove Road (cnr Talavera Road), North Ryde | |
| Telephone: | 02 9850 1450 | |
| Fax: | 02 9850 1470 | |
| Email: | speechclinic@ling.mq.edu.au | |
| Opening Hours: | Monday-Friday: 9am-5pm and till 8pm on some days Saturdays: please enquire about appointments |
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| Parking: | Instructions | |
| Maps - Bus | http://www.sydneybuses.info/timetable/printed_tt.php | |
About our service
This new centre – opened in 2006 – is a teaching and research clinic of the Macquarie University Master of Speech & Language Pathology program. Students see clients for assessment and intervention services, under the direct supervision of specialist clinicians, and academic staff who are engaged in internationally renowned clinical research.
All assessment and treatment procedures are based on the most recent evidence available from research, ensuring that clients have access to the best possible services.
At the Macquarie University Speech Clinic, we work with children and adults with communication difficulties and their families, carers, and teachers, to assist them to participate in their everyday home, school, work and social activities:
- With preschool children, this could mean working with parents to help a child’s delayed speech and language development, or to eliminate stuttering
- With a school aged child or adolescent, the focus may be on the language, learning and literacy skills required for social and academic success at school
- For the adult after stroke or brain injury, return to work or social life may involve practicing speech skills in conversational groups, developing an alternative means of communication, or working with families to facilitate better communication
- Adults who stutter can participate in treatment that will enable them to control a lifelong behaviour that has limited their social or work lives
Treatments are tailored to individual needs, and treatment schedules vary according to disorders and goals. Students and clinicians work with clients and their families to design programs that will address their immediate and long-term concerns. We like to involve families and friends of clients in treatments as these significant communication partners can greatly assist the child or adult with the communication problem in making necessary changes, and improving speech skills.