Effective communication is a fundamental skill for humans, and language and speech serve as their most explicit and precise forms. When individuals struggle to receive and convey information, express themselves clearly, and understand messages, it significantly impacts their ability to thrive within a community. Fortunately, speech and language therapy can address a wide range of difficulties – and the earlier the intervention, the better!
For insights on when to seek help, what occurs during a speech therapy session, how to support children at home or school, common speech issues, and parental guidance, continue reading. Additionally, if you’re in Hong Kong, discover the best speech and language therapists and therapy centers.
SPOT
SPOT is one of Hong Kong’s leading pediatric clinics, with a warm and caring trilingual team of highly experienced speech and language therapists. The SPOT team works to enable your child to communicate effectively and to reach their potential. SPOT therapists also conduct assessments, producing quality reports for provision to schools, families, and other professionals. Therapy is conducted in child-friendly spaces to ensure the sessions are fun and motivating, providing lasting growth. SPOT’s specialism areas include social skills, articulation, language delays, phonological awareness/literacy, receptive and expressive language, stuttering/fluency, voice, and feeding. Therapy is conducted one-on-one, in pairs or small groups.
SPOT, contact@spot.com.hk, https://spot.com.hk/
- 1021-1025 One Island South, 2 Heung Yip Road, Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong, +852 2807 2992
- 17/F Wing’s Building, 110-116 Queens Road, Central, Hong Kong, +852 2807 3223
- Flat 604, South DB Plaza (Block A), Discovery Bay, Lantau Island, Hong Kong, +852 2807 2992
- Unit 1501A, 15/F Eastmark, 21 Sheung Yuet Road, Kowloon Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, +852 2807 0800
SPROUT IN MOTION: Central & Wong Chuk Hang
Enhance Your Child’s Communication Abilities And Social Skills
Are you looking to boost your child’s speech and language skills while fostering confidence? Look no further than Sprout in Motion! Their trilingual team is dedicated to enhancing your child’s communication abilities and social skills, ensuring they thrive in all aspects of life. Working closely with occupational therapists and Mandarin-speaking ABA specialists, their therapists maximize the benefits of care provided by trusted multidisciplinary child development clinics. With a detailed and comprehensive assessment, Sprout in Motion’s speech therapists identify specific areas of speech and language development, crafting personalized and time-limited therapy plans tailored to your child’s needs. Join Sprout in Motion today and watch your child blossom into a confident communicator!
Sprout in Motion, G/F 5A Chancery Lane, Central +852 2563 4138 | 1006 Global Trade Square, 21 Wong Chuk Hang Road, +852 2563 4800, enquiries@sprout.hk, www.sproutinmotion.com
CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTRE
CDC comprises a team of dedicated special educational needs professionals and has provided assessments, interventions, therapies, and parent support in Hong Kong for over four decades. They offer one-on-one speech therapy sessions for kids aged 2 to 12 that focus on developing communication skills through an individualized plan tailor-made for your child’s specific needs after a detailed assessment. Speech therapy can target preverbal language skills, receptive language, expressive language, social (including non-verbal communication), articulation, and phonology. You can find more details here!
Child Development Centre, Unit 7, 4/F, Victoria Centre, 15 Watson Road, Fortress Hill, Hong Kong, +852 2849 6138, info@cdchk.org, www.cdchk.org
CHILD DEVELOPMENT TEAM (Central Health Partners)
Child Development Team tackles speech, language, executive functioning, social and communication difficulties through an interdisciplinary approach in close communication between speech therapists, pediatricians, psychiatrists, educational psychologists, occupational therapists, and counselors. CDT’s therapists Henriette Olesen, Karen Kei, and Melinda Sturges emphasize the importance of proactive early intervention (from the age of 2!) and how to build strong relationships with kids through sessions that are engaging and productive. They offer support with thinking skills, understanding and using language, using speech, academic difficulties, and other areas. Learn all the details here!
Child Development Team, 10th Floor, One Island South, Suite 1015, 2 Heung Yip Road, Hong Kong, +852 2592 9000, slp@southside.com.hk, www.cdt.com.hk
UNION HOSPITAL
The first private general hospital in the Eastern New Territories, Union Hospital, introduced numerous innovative and unique medical services. Their speech & swallowing therapy clinic provides assessments, diagnosis, and therapy for those with speech, language, voice, speech fluency, and swallowing difficulties with the goal of easing comprehension, expression, articulation, fluency, voice quality, social communication skills, oral motor abilities, as well as treating swallowing disorders. Their speech therapy team consists of Lee Kam Shing and Cheng Tsz Fung. Learn more about their approach here!
Union Hospital, 18 Fu Kin Street, Tai Wai, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong, +852 2608 3388, union@union.org, www.union.org
INTEGRATE
Integrate’s speech & language therapy increase communication effectiveness and promotes children’s language, speech, behavior, and interpersonal skills. They emphasize teamwork with parents, teachers, and other professionals to ensure continuity and a multi-disciplinary perspective. Using a combination of goal-focused conversation, learning strategies, and play and role-play activities, Integrate tackles a number of issues closely and partly associated with speech and language.
Integrate, +852 2522 2690, info@integratehk.hk, www.integratehk.hk
- Central Rooms, 1901, Haleson Building, 1 Jubilee Street, Central, Hong Kong
- Discovery Bay Rooms, Unit 22, 1F Block 2, Discovery Bay North Plaza, Lantau Island, Hong Kong
BRIGHTEN
Brighten is a development & therapy center with a dedicated team of speech and speech-language therapists that can help you address and tackle speech-language delay in kiddos. They emphasize the importance of early intervention and offer immediate help to families that suspect their services are needed. Brighten’s therapists help with articulation and speech mechanisms, understanding and use of language, motor speech disorder, augmentative and alternative communication, and social communication! Learn more about language, speech, and related disorders here!
Brighten Development & Therapy Centre, Unit 1720, 17/F, Tower 1, Grand Central Plaza, 138 Sha Tin Rural Committee Road, Sha Tin, N.T., Hong Kong, +852 2786 1611, info@brightentherapy.com, www.brightentherapy.com
SHINE THERAPY CENTRE
STC’s Elizabeth W.S. Chan is both the center’s director and a registered bilingual speech & language therapist in the UK with over 10 years of speech & language assessments and therapy experience. Together with Melody H.C. Lee, she works with children who have special needs, global developmental, articulation/speech, understanding, and expressive language delays, stuttering, voice disorders, selective mutism, and ADD, and a range of other difficulties. These two experts will help you assess and develop personalized therapy goals and treat speech, language, and communication problems in close collaboration with other health professionals, psychologists, and parents/carers. More info can be found here!
Shine Therapy Centre, Unit C 8/F Yun Tat Commercial Building, 70-74 Wuhu Street, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, +852 37021104, info@shinetherapycentre.com, www.shinetherapycentre.com
TALK IN ACTION
This exceptionally warm, family-run therapy center provides all-around family support. Senior speech and language therapist and director Zara Kan specializes in working with late talkers, emphasizing kids growing up in bilingual environments. Certified in numerous speech therapy methods and advocating for strong parent-child relationships on this journey, she can help you assess special needs and provide early intervention with social interaction difficulties, stammering, and articulation in English, Cantonese, and Mandarin!
Talk In Action, Ground floor, 26 Arbuthnot Road, Central, Hong Kong, +852 2768 8698, info@tia.com.hk, www.tia.com.hk
