What Are Developmental Delays?
Developmental delays are when children need more time to reach their developmental milestones. Every child’s journey is unique, and developmental delays can vary greatly. Some children may experience mild delays in specific areas, while others may face more significant challenges that impact multiple aspects of their growth.
Early identification and intervention are essential for helping children develop their skills for everyday life and future success.
Causes of Developmental Delays
- Genetic conditions: Genetic disorders like Down and Fragile X can affect development.
- Pregnancy and birth complications: Preterm birth, low birth weight, or complications during delivery can impact early development.
- Environmental influences: Exposure to toxins, inadequate nutrition, or lack of stimulation can delay development.
- Infections and injuries: Infections during pregnancy or severe injuries like head trauma can also lead to delays.
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Our Approach to Treatment
- Fine motor skills such as learning to hold and play with toys
- Pre-academic tasks such as learning to hold a pencil, draw and cut with scissors
- Self-care skills such as dressing, grooming, toileting
- Facilitate age appropriate play skills
- Development of problem-solving, memory and attention
- Early floor mobility such as tummy time, rolling, sitting and crawling
- Development of strength and balance to support first steps
- Facilitate age appropriate play and exploration
- Early babbling development
- Early language
- Expressive (use of) language
- Receptive (understanding) language
- Quality of voice
- Fluency/Stuttering
- Feeding and swallowing difficulties
- Articulation of speech sounds
- Meeting nutritional requirements for age with modified textures as needed
- Supporting nutritional requirements with supplements as required
- Providing opportunities for feeding skill development
- Comprehensive assessment of developmental and motor skills
- Task adaptation or simplification
- Graded task progression
- Prescription of aids and equipment
- Liaison with childcare and school to educate the whole team
- Assessment of gross motor skills
- Parent coaching for environment modifications that promote physical development
- Intensive therapy to facilitate skill attainment
- Task modification
- Task specific practice
- Comprehensive assessment of speech, language and literacy skills
- Hanen - More Than Words
- Hanen - It Takes Two to Talk
- Early language stimulation approach
- Babbling Bootcamp
- Augmentative and Alternative Communication prescription, monitoring and support
- Nuffield Dyspraxia Program
- Rapid Syllable Transition Treatment (ReST)
- Contextual Utilisation Approaches for Speech Sound Production
- Cued Articulation Approach
- Responsive Feeding Therapy approach
- Parent/caregiver coaching & support
- Comprehensive assessment of current nutritional status
- Feeding therapy
- Nutrition support through food modification
- Nutrition support through supplements