SERVICE AREAS

• Qualifying for Program Unit Funding (PUF) to access Early Childhood Services (ECS)

• Qualifying for Code 57: Communication Disability (Grades 1 -12) 

• Speech sounds

• Articulation, phonological disorders, motor speech (apraxia and dysarthria)

• Child may be hard to understand or have trouble producing certain sounds

• Fluency (otherwise known as stuttering, stammering, bumpy speech)

• Receptive language (i.e., understanding of language; e.g., basic concepts, following directions etc.)

  • Child may watch peers to figure out what to do next; they may seem lost

  • Formal assessments on site for children aged 18 months - 21 years

• Expressive language (i.e., use of language; e.g., word endings, grammar, sentence structure, vocabulary etc.)

  • Child may be not speaking at all, or not speaking enough

  • They point and grunt to express themselves rather than using words. Are they frustrated because they cannot express what they want or need?

  • Formal assessments on site for children aged 18 months - 21 years

• Literacy: understanding written text (i.e., reading comprehension), story retell, reading fluency and decoding (i.e., the ability to sound of words and break them apart to read)

  • Formal assessments on site for children 6 years - 18;11 years

• Voice and resonance assessments can be completed in order to decide if a referral to the Voice and Resonance Clinic at the Glenrose is a good next step.

• NEW! Baseline is expanding to include Occupational Therapy (OT) support for children as a wrap around service option. Please bring up any concerns with your SLP and an Ages and Stages Questionnaire can be completed to determine if an OT referral should be placed for your child.

OUT OF SCOPE SERVICES

Please note there are two areas of speech and language support that Baseline considers out of scope (because extra training is required in order to effectively provide treatment), and those are voice and/or resonance challenges and oral myofunctional disorders (e.g., tongue thrust). This clinic will complete an assessment, and diagnose challenges in these areas, and then advise around next steps in order to support a referral to another agency. 

AUDIOLOGY SERVICES

Baseline is extremely fortunate to have found a home at Canadian Cancer Care for many reasons, but a big one is that there is an audiologist in the building. Hearing screens will not be completed at Baseline; however, should you want your child’s hearing to be assessed we can work to coordinate same day services. Please reach out to your SLP should you require additional information about audiology services.