Cliona Speech Pathology Assessments is a telehealth service accepting referrals for school-aged children and adolescents (ages 5-21) from any location in Australia.
Cliona has significant clinical experience in assessing language and communication difficulties where there are neurodevelopmental and/or mental health challenges. Cliona will be able to help your child, yourselves, the school, and their treating team understand how their mental health, neurotype and language skills are contributing to how your child interacts with the people in their world.
You may be asking:
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Does your child have a language disorder?
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What is this young person’s communication strengths and weaknesses?
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What are your child’s social communication difficulties?
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Could this child’s skills match the pattern of autism and/or ADHD?
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How does this communication profile impact on mental health and vice versa?
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Why is your child struggling at school or with making friends?
Cliona has over 15 years experience as a speech pathologist including in infant and child mental health, disability, counselling, community health, and primary health in indigenous communities. Most recently she held the roles of senior speech pathologist and neurodevelopmental assessment co-ordinator at a child and adolescent mental health team with the Royal Children’s Hospital.
Cliona works:
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Via telehealth
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Using a range of assessments
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To help families and care teams (eg paediatricians, schools) to better understand and support a young person’s ability to access health care, education or funding