Clinical Services at SSI

Welcome! The Speech & Stuttering Institute offers assessment, treatment and consultation for:

children with speech difficulties through our Children’s Speech Therapy Program
preschoolers who stutter through Preschool Fluency Program
school aged children who stutter through our School Age Fluency Program
teens and adults of all ages who stutter through our Adult & Teen Stuttering Therapy Programs

If you are interested in referring yourself or your child to one of these programs, please contact us via email (info@speechandstuttering.com) or phone (416-491-7771, ext. 2). We do not require a doctor or other professional to make the referral.

SSI also offers Intensive Summer Fluency Programs, Fluency Refresher Programs, and SLP Consultations.

Virtual Services:

Our services are available by telepractice to clients throughout the province of Ontario. We use secure videoconferencing to provide effective and enjoyable virtual care for clients of all ages.

In person services:

In-person services for clients in the Toronto area take place at our clinic (95 Barber Greene Rd.). Please inquire about in-person availability at the time of your referral.

About Us

The Speech and Stuttering Institute is a non-profit organization in Toronto, offering speech therapy to children and adults with speech and stuttering challenges. Our speech therapy programs are made possible through the generosity of donors as well as client fees.

What Makes Us Different?

We have been recognized by the Ontario government as a “Centre of Training and Development.” This is a result of the Institute’s many years of conducting research to inform our evidence-based speech and stuttering therapy programs. This designation means that the Government is relying on our Institute to help create speech and stuttering guidelines and train speech language pathologists in Toronto and across the Province of Ontario.

What does that mean for you? You have the opportunity to receive speech therapy from the professionals who are teaching SLPs throughout Ontario.

Our Mission

The mandate of The Speech & Stuttering Institute is three-fold: To provide clinical service, to educate and train professionals throughout the province, and to engage in cutting edge research to unearth the root causes of speech related challenges in order to find the most effective treatment methods.

Areas of Service

Stuttering
Cluttering
Articulation/speech sound disorders
Motor speech impairments
Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS)
Late talkers

Click here for a printable summary of our programs

Our Services

Our Team

Our speech clinicians are trained in the PROMPT system (Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets), which has been found to be an effective tool for the treatment of motor speech disorders. Several clinicians are also Hanen Certified.

Our stuttering clinicians are trained in the Fluency Plus Program, the Lidcombe Program and Palin Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (all evidence-based, internationally recognized treatment programs for stuttering).

Meet our Team