Clinical Services at SSI
Welcome! The Speech & Stuttering Institute offers assessment, treatment and consultation for:
- children with speech difficulties through our Children’s Speech Therapy Program
- preschoolers who stutter through Preschool Fluency Program
- school aged children who stutter through our School Age Fluency Program
- teens and adults of all ages who stutter through our Adult & Teen Stuttering Therapy Programs
If you are interested in referring yourself or your child to one of these programs, please contact us via email (info@speechandstuttering.com) or phone (416-491-7771, ext. 2). We do not require a doctor or other professional to make the referral.
SSI also offers Intensive Summer Fluency Programs, Fluency Refresher Programs, and SLP Consultations.
Virtual Services:
Our services are available by telepractice to clients throughout the province of Ontario. We use secure videoconferencing to provide effective and enjoyable virtual care for clients of all ages.
In person services:
In-person services for clients in the Toronto area take place at our clinic (95 Barber Greene Rd.). Please inquire about in-person availability at the time of your referral.
What Makes Us Different?
We have been recognized by the Ontario government as a “Centre of Training and Development.” This is a result of the Institute’s many years of conducting research to inform our evidence-based speech and stuttering therapy programs. This designation means that the Government is relying on our Institute to help create speech and stuttering guidelines and train speech language pathologists in Toronto and across the Province of Ontario.
What does that mean for you? You have the opportunity to receive speech therapy from the professionals who are teaching SLPs throughout Ontario.
Our Mission
The mandate of The Speech & Stuttering Institute is three-fold: To provide clinical service, to educate and train professionals throughout the province, and to engage in cutting edge research to unearth the root causes of speech related challenges in order to find the most effective treatment methods.
Areas of Service
- stuttering
- cluttering
- articulation/speech sound disorders
- motor speech impairments
- Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS)
- late talkers
Our Team
Our speech clinicians are trained in the PROMPT system (Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets), which has been found to be an effective tool for the treatment of motor speech disorders. Several clinicians are also Hanen Certified.
Our stuttering clinicians are trained in the Fluency Plus Program, the Lidcombe Program and Palin Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (all evidence-based, internationally recognized treatment programs for stuttering).
Our Speech Therapy Programs
- Serves children 2 years and up
- Individual therapy
- Speech skills worked on within language-rich contexts
- Includes games, stories, crafts, role-playing
- Serves children 1-13 yrs old
- Individual or group therapy
- Summer Fluency Program for 10-13 yr olds
- Individual therapy
- Weekly group therapy
- 3-week Intensive summer therapy group
- Refresher programs
- For any Ontario resident who is unable to attend in person
- Stuttering assessment
- Individual or group therapy
- Secure telepractice platform