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Speech Language Pathology - Welcome to the speech therapy website for preschool children and parents! Speech therapy is conducted by the school district 8 speech therapy team at the Creston Home Links Centre formerly known as South Creston School. Our preschool speech therapy team works with children ages 0 to 5, or until they are enrolled in a school. At our clinic we educate family members about typical developmental milestones for children in speech, language, social skills, and play development. We are also coordinated with the BC Early Hearing Program and have continuous collaboration with Strong Start, Family Place, the Creston Valley Infant Development Program, and most of our local Creston daycare centres that have early childhood skilled workers on site. 

On this school district 8 website page you will find developmental milestone charts, links to services for autism spectrum disorder, and various hyperlinks and contact information for various service workers within School District 8 and the Creston Valley community.

Resources for Development

Developmental Milestones

Individual and Initial Assessment/Consultation

  • Articulation assessment - Goldman Fristoe Test of Articulation (GFTA-3), Stuttering Severity Instrument (SSI-4), Oral Motor Functional Assessment
  • Language assessment - Preschool Language Scales (PLS-4) and Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals (CELF-5)
  • Summary and Recommendations - Created to explain findings of the initial assessment and reveiw recommendations for ongoing speech therapy IF needed
  • Homework with Resources - Paperwork with folder is given to children to work on speech sounds, social skills in play routines, language content and low and high tech communication modalities when appropriate
  • Group Therapy Eligibility - MOST children will likely be given the opportunity to participate in our group therapy play program which focuses on speech and language needs

Group Therapy Programs

Due to the ever-growing caseload of preschoolers for the Creston speech therapy team, we are going to group as many children as possible to accommodate our numbers (More sessions for more children!). Group therapy activities will be presented to parents and children. The arts and crafts items and home practice exercises will be used with the take-home creations. Our model will be to improve articulation accuracy and/or language development with weekly sessions. The programs will be run for a 6 week duration with approximately 3-4 programs for the remainder of the year (January - June). 

  • Group Organization
    • 1-5 years language focused multi-modal communication
    • 2-4 years language/articulation (largest groups!!)
    • 3-5 years articulation
  • Example Activities
    • Sheep activity with cotton balls, taking turns with concept language words and targeted speech sounds such as s-blends (stick, smile, skate, etc)
    • https://Sheep Craft

Family Place / Infant Development Program

Family place [4 Ash St, Creston, BC V0B 1G3 (use Birch St North entrance)] is a provincially funded service program for preschool children and their parents. At these gatherings children and their parents will learn nursery rhymes, sing songs, have snacks, mingle with other children to work on social skills and play. Meanwhile, parents can network with other parents about concerns, celebrations, and everything in between. The Family Place coordinator is currently Wendy Garland. 

The Infant Development Program Coordinator is Korri Maloney. The Infant Development Program provides home based services for children from birth to three years old who are identified as being at risk for a developmental delay, who are developmentally delayed in one or more skill area or have a diagnosed disability.