Speech Assessment

Speech Assessment
Kids and Cubs Clinic offers speech assessments for infants & toddlers, preschoolers and school-age children. Assessments can evaluate concerns across a range of areas including:
- Understanding (receptive language) skills
- Speaking (expressive language) skills
- Pronunciation (speech sounds)
- Social communication
- Play and interaction
- Higher-level language skills
- Feeding development
- Reading and writing (literacy)
- Phonics and pre-literacy skills
- Stuttering
- Voice Disorders
The type of speech assessment we complete with your child is determined by their age and the concerns present.
- Toddler or Informal Speech Assessment
- Play-based assessment for toddlers (0 – 2;11 years), or informal assessment for preschool or school age clients (i.e. speech sound only concerns).
- Includes: 60 minute assessment appointment & report with recommendations
- Preschool / Short Formal Speech Pathology Assessment
- Standardised assessment for preschool age clients (3;0 years – pre-Kindergarten start 5;11) formally assessing all standard communication concerns.
- Includes: 60 minute assessment appointment, scoring and analysis, and report with
- School Age / Comprehensive Formal Speech Pathology Assessment
- Standardised assessment for school age clients (Kindergarten onward) or for complex or comprehensive assessment of preschool age clients (such as diagnosis of Childhood Apraxia of Speech).
- Includes: 2x 60 minute assessment appointments, scoring and analysis, and report with recommendations.
Funding
At Kids and Cubs Clinic we accept the following funding options:

NDIS
- Self-managed funding
- Plan-managed funding

Private Health Insurance
- Please consult your private health provider to determine eligibility and rebate amounts.

Medicare
- Chronic Disease Management plan (previously known as Enhanced Primary Care plan)
- Please discuss Medicare funding options with your GP