Helping Children Develop Speech & Language Skills

We offer Speech and Language Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy and Play Therapy to preschool children enrolled at our school.
Outpatient Speech and Language Therapy, Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy is offered to school age children, preschool children, babies and toddlers outside of school hours by our team of therapists

Multi Disciplinary Therapy Centre

Developing happy, well-adjusted, confident children

Assessments

Assessments are done on an ongoing basis because we realise how children’s competence in a certain area can change daily.

Therapy

We offer an intensive approach to therapy with children receiving a minimum of two individual sessions and one group session per week.

Extra Murals

The Talk Shop offers offers Kindermusik, Playball and Tumbling Tigerz as part of our extra murals programme.

Aftercare

We provide care for children with working parents, our aftercare service is available every afternoon until 17h30.

About The Talk Shop

Holistic Academic and Therapy Approach

At The Talk Shop, we believe in offering your child a single solution to their academic and therapy needs, and therefore offer both a nursery school programme and therapy at the school. This enables the multi-disciplinary team dealing with your child to be involved in all areas of his/her development thereby ensuring a more holistic approach.

It also saves you the hassle of driving to different therapists in the afternoons, and makes your child feel more settled. All parents are encouraged to participate in the various therapies and activities that form part of your child’s overall programme.

Admission Criteria

Inclusive Support for High-Needs Children

Although our admission criteria is strict and we try our utmost to ensure that the children we accept are able to follow the mainstream curriculum without any adaptations, we do believe in inclusion, and will therefore accept a maximum of two high support children per class. They may be high support in terms of some of their academic skills, their behaviour or their physical ability, including fine motor skills.

Children are admitted into the full-time programme at 3 years of age. We follow a mainstream curriculum but the programme may be modified in terms of pace and possibly content dependent on the children/class.

Case-by-Case Admissions

Special Consideration for Grade R Repeats

Children are admitted to the Talk Shop on a case-by-case basis, but we very rarely accept children in the year they turn 7. Under some circumstances we may allow, or even encourage, one of our Grade R children to repeat their Grade R year with us if we feel that it will positively change their placement following their time at The Talk Shop.

Extra Support from Teachers

Our class sizes are a maximum of 8 children in the Grade 000 and and 10 in Grade 00 classes and may go to a maximum of 12 children in the Grade R classes. Each class has a teacher and a classroom assistant. This high adult-to-child ratio ensures that each child is able to cope with the work presented, some with higher levels of support than others.

The Talk Shop can accommodate up to 62 children with varying degrees of speech and language difficulties.

We have three age groups and these include:

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Contact Number

011 463 8160 | 011 463 7267

Email Address

admin@thetalkshop.co.za

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