Camps for Kids

We are looking forward to Speech Star Camp for Kids for summer 2023.

As variety of factors are involved in the details, including COVID, we will not be releasing any details until closer to Feb 2023.

If you are NOT yet an active client of the Centre but are interested in attending camp, please contact us so we can outline what is involved in being eligible for our intensive camp programming.

Childhood Apraxia & Speech Therapy Centre is excited to offer Speech Star Camps for Kids with suspected or identified Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) and/or Childhood Dysarthria.

Each session of Speech Star Camp for Kids is 4 (four) days long and includes individual speech therapy sessions with an Apraxia Kids Recognized Speech-Language Pathologist and daily group sessions run by Speech-Language Pathologists.

As part of Camp, you can expect your child to:

• Receive an individual consultation to set their personalized speech goals for Camp (in-person or by virtual care, as appropriate)
• Receive two daily 30-minute individual speech therapy sessions
• Receive 4 hours of group speech therapy
• Receive a brief summary report with recommendations for next steps in their journey with CAS
• Meet and connect with other children with CAS
• Make gains in their speech skills, social communication skills, and social skills
• Have fun!

Children planning to attend Speech Star Camps for Kids need to be able to:

• Attend to a task for 2-3 minutes with little assistance
• Respond to their name
• Understand and participate in turn-taking
• Imitate sound with some consistency
• Follow 2-step related instructions (e.g. pick it up and put it in the garbage, clap your hands and wave goodbye)

All camps are directed and run by Brooke Rea, the owner of Childhood Apraxia & Speech Therapy Centre. She is especially excited to be partnering again this year with Taryn McKinnon, BMT, MTA as music and speech therapy are a fun and effective combination. Taryn received her Honours Bachelor of Music Therapy at Wilfrid Laurier University in 2002. She completed a 1000 hour internship with the school board in Cambridge, Ontario working with children with Autism, Down Syndrome, and a wide variety of other diagnoses.  Taryn has worked locally in Kitchener – Waterloo since then, specializing in working with children with speech and language disorders.

Our team of therapists is ready to provide a camp for kids with suspected or identified Childhood Apraxia of Speech and/or Childhood Dysarthria unlike anything else offered in the Province of Ontario.

For more information please email us!

Please contact us if you have any questions.