Paediatric Speech Therapy Unit
Speech therapists may need to teach your premature baby how to feed.
This is because their capacity to suckle and swallow, unlike babies born at full-term, still requires development.Speech therapists also work with infants who are born with cranio-facial abnormalities such as cleft palates and counsel their parents in terms of what to expect. Speech therapy began at the Queen Victoria Medical Centre in 1980, when it accepted responsibility for the management of the medical and paramedical services (e.g. speech therapy), of the Nepean Centre, a special school for the disabled in Frankston.
A key area in which speech therapists and other allied health professionals have become involved in over the last 10 years has been a process known as ‘developmental care’.