Our Services

The Montreal Fluency Centre offers an Evidence-based Treatment Model, which focuses on prevention through early intervention and evaluation of treatment outcomes. Services include both general speech-language therapy and treatment in areas of specialization, including stuttering, childhood apraxia of speech, phonological awareness, oral language and language-based treatment. All treatment includes consultation with occupational and physical therapists, psychologists, audiologists, physicians and educators where indicated.

Treatment is offered in the following specialized areas:

Bilingual Services are available in the following areas:
  • Stuttering
  • Developmental Apraxia of Speech
  • Developmental Phonology
  • Pragmatic and Social Language
  • Phonological Awareness
  • Speech Production Difficulty
  • Preschool/School-Age Language Assessment and Therapy
  • Language Camp (Summer only)
  • Parent Training
  • Prevention & Early Intervention
  • Assessment & Treatment
  • Small Group Therapy
  • Parent Education Programs
  • School Consultation
  • Contractual Services to School Boards & Other Agencies
  • Professional Workshops

For more information about our assessments, please see our Assessment Questions and Answers Sheet (PDF).

Demand For Services

The prevalence of children with communication disorders ranges from 8-12% of the general population, according to documents produced by the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association, and confirmed by Canadian demographic studies published by the Canadian Association of Speech Language Pathologists and Audiologists and L’Ordre des Orthophonistes du Québec.

Many children are not eligible for services in the public sector due to changes in service delivery models. For example, waiting lists at hospitals such as the Montreal Children’s range from eight months to one-and-a-half years. At the MacKay Centre, which specializes in treatment for speech and language impairment, children may wait an additional year-and-a-half for intervention. Because the risk of developing long term chronic impairment in learning and literacy increases with age, this gap could be potentially detrimental to children under the age of six.

In Quebec alone approximately 10%, or 700,000 of all school children have difficulties in learning. This translates into two to three children per classroom. Of those children, at least 80% will have language difficulties associated with learning. It is estimated that 4-6% or 55,000 children under the age of six, stutter. While some children recover from early stuttering naturally, stuttering persists in 45,000 adults in Quebec.

Treatment offered within the public sector often consists of short blocks of ‘diagnostic therapy’ with no possibility for continuing service. In Quebec, there were 140 full time positions unfilled for the population of 0-5 years as of June 2000. Increasingly the public school mandate involves consultation only, which means that the majority of children fall under the aegis of the school commissions will need to look toward the private sector for treatment.

Testimonials:

“We are extremely grateful for your services provided over the past year to our son, Foti. Your speech therapy method has helped Foti to overcome his stuttering and regain his self-esteem and confidence within himself. We will definitely refer The Montreal Fluency Centre to other parents with kids who require speech therapy services. A big THANK YOU!”
-- Mr. & Mrs. E.