Speech Therapy in Halifax — Coming Soon
Speech-language pathology is joining the practice, bringing communication support alongside our occupational therapy and behaviour services — including AAC assessments and communication intermediary work. Nothing here is bookable yet. Join the waitlist and you will hear first.
Coming soon
Speech-language pathology is joining the practice. Join the waitlist and you will hear first — and if you need speech support now, tell us and we will point you at who is taking referrals.
Are you a Speech Therapy clinician? We are hiring.
What our speech & communication services will cover
The service we are building — including the two areas people most often cannot find anywhere in Nova Scotia. None of it is bookable yet.
Speech & articulation
Help with speech sounds and clarity so children and adults can be understood the first time — and so that speech difficulties do not become reading difficulties later.
Language development
Understanding and using language — vocabulary, sentences, following directions, and conversation. For late talkers, developmental language disorder, and language after brain injury.
Social communication
The everyday communication that connects people at school, at work and at home — approached as a two-way fit, not as teaching someone to mask.
AAC assessments
Everyone deserves a way to express themselves. Communication assessment and device evaluation, trialling low and high tech options, with family training and funding support.
About AAC assessments Coming soonCommunication intermediary services
Impartial support so people with communication disabilities can be understood in police, legal, medical and government settings across Nova Scotia.
About communication intermediaryAdults & acquired conditions
Aphasia after stroke, communication after brain injury, and progressive conditions such as ALS and Parkinson's — the most under-served group in communication services, and one we want to reach.
What we can help with while you wait
Waitlist families hear first when intake opens and get priority booking for initial assessments. Being on it costs nothing and commits you to nothing.
In the meantime, our occupational therapy and behaviour support teams can very often start on communication-adjacent goals straight away — regulation, feeding, visual supports, functional communication training, AAC modelling at home for a system you already have, and the environmental changes that make communication possible in the first place. Ask about it in a free 20-minute consultation; if the honest answer is that you need a speech-language pathologist now rather than later, we will tell you that and point you at who is taking referrals.
Common outcomes of speech & communication support
What this kind of work is aiming at, so you can judge whether it is what you are looking for. Communication goals are set with the person and measured, so progress is visible rather than felt.
Understood by people outside the family
The measure that matters most: an unfamiliar listener following what is being said, not just the people who have learned to.
More words, longer sentences
Vocabulary growth, combining words, and the jump from single words to real sentences.
A working communication system
Where speech is not the route: a board, a book or a device that is genuinely used — to request, refuse, comment, joke and complain.
Much less frustration
Consistently the change families name first. Behaviour driven by not being understood tends to ease once the message has somewhere to go.
Taking part
Answering in class, contributing in a meeting, ordering their own food, joining a conversation instead of watching one.
Able to report and refuse
Pain, illness, fear or harm — and the ability to say no. A reliable way to communicate is a safeguarding measure, not only a social one.
Speech & communication — common questions
When will speech therapy be available?
We do not have a date to give you, and we would rather say that than invent one. Speech-language pathology is joining the practice and we are recruiting for it — if you are an SLP, we would like to hear from you via join our team. Everyone on the waitlist is contacted before we open bookings publicly.
My child is late to talk. Should we wait for you?
No. If your child needs speech-language support now, get it now — put your name on our waitlist by all means, but do not hold out for us. Some children do catch up on their own, but nobody can tell which ones in advance, and difficulties that persist into school are strongly associated with later reading and spelling difficulties. Have hearing checked at the same time; intermittent hearing loss from glue ear is very common and easy to miss. Our speech sound milestones handout sets out what to expect at each age.
Can you help with communication at all right now?
Some of it, honestly labelled. Our occupational therapists work on regulation, sensory barriers, feeding and visual supports; our BCBA works on functional communication training, which teaches a reliable way to make a need known and is often the single biggest change in a household. Neither is a substitute for a speech-language pathologist, and we will not pretend otherwise.
Will AAC stop my child learning to talk?
No. This is the most common worry about AAC and the evidence is consistent: introducing it is associated with gains in natural speech, not losses. It reduces frustration, models language, and gives a child a reason to communicate. Our AAC assessment service arrives with our speech-language service — there is more on what it will involve on the AAC assessments page, and our getting started with AAC handout is useful today if you already have a system at home.
What is a communication intermediary?
A trained, impartial professional who makes communication work between someone with a communication disability and a police officer, lawyer, court, doctor or caseworker. They do not advocate and do not answer on anyone's behalf — they make sure the question is understood as asked and the answer as given. It is a service we are building rather than one we currently provide; more about it here.
Will it be covered by insurance?
Many extended health plans cover speech-language pathology, often under a separate limit from occupational therapy. It is worth checking your plan for "speech-language pathology" or "speech therapy" now, so you know what you have when bookings open.
Join the speech therapy waitlist
Waitlist families hear first when intake opens and get priority booking.
Be first in line
Join the speech therapy waitlist — no cost, no commitment, and you will hear before bookings open publicly. If you need communication support today, book a free 20-minute consultation instead and we will tell you honestly what our OT and behaviour teams can do.