Therapy can be appropriate for children with the following difficulties:

• speech sound difficulties – dyspraxia, phonological delay/disorder, articulation difficulties
  


• delay in understanding language – e.g. vocabulary, grammar or instructions
  


• delay in spoken language – difficulties with vocabulary, recalling words, sentence construction



• poor attention and listening skills
  


• dysfluency (stammering/stuttering)
  


• social and communication - difficulties with the unspoken rules of interaction