...because communication matters! 

Carmen Martino, Speech-Language Pathologist in Oakville provides comprehensive assessment and therapy services designed to support individuals with a wide range of communication needs. Her practice encompasses brain injury recovery, cognitive communication challenges, motor speech disorders such as Childhood Apraxia of Speech, articulation and language and literacy development. Therapy plans are tailored to empower individuals to achieve their communication goals and improve their quality of life.

communication involves:

  • listening: understanding and remembering what you hear, following directions at school, home, and work, following conversations.

  • speaking: speech sounds, use of words and sentences, voice.

  • reading: decoding skills, understanding words and sentences in books, texts, emails, and news articles.

  • writing: knowing how to write words and sentences and putting them in a text, email, or a story that makes sense.

  • social language: understanding and using verbal and non-verbal language effectively.

  • executive function skills that help us with all of our other communication skills, including attention, memory, reasoning, and problem solving.

 

areas of practice

  • traumatic brain injury (mild, moderate, severe)

  • concussion

  • childhood apraxia of speech (CAS)

  • motor speech disorders

  • literacy development/learning disability

  • articulation delays

  • language delays

  • developmental delays

  • voice disorders

additional training & course completion

  • Cognitive-Communication Disorders, Levels 1 & 2

  • Attended Apraxia Kids Intensive Training (38 clock hours) and Journal Readings Study Group on Childhood Apraxia of Speech (2021)

  • Dynamic Temporal & Tactile Cueing (DTTC)

  • PROMPT, Level 1

  • Lessac-Madsen Resonant Voice Therapy & Casper-Stone Confidential Flow Therapy

  • Supported Conversation for Adults with Aphasia (SCA™)

  • Hanen