What is the role of a speech pathologist?
Speech pathologists are professionals that are trained to support people who have difficulties with feeding, swallowing and communication.
Siew-Lian is an experienced speech pathologist and lactation consultant.
Please contact us to arrange an appointment if you need help with the following areas:
- Eating and drinking skills
- Sucking and swallowing when feeding from the breast or bottle
- Transitioning to solid foods
- Difficulties when chewing or gagging on lumpy foods
- Swallowing difficulties (dysphagia)
- Feed and mealtime refusal
- Dependence on tube feeding
- Lactation challenges
- Communication difficulties
- Difficulties with eye gaze
- Delayed babbling
- Delayed interactions in play
- Delays in using gesture
- Learning first words and linking words together
- Speech delay/speech sound difficulties
