SPEECH THERAPY AND AUDIOLOGY | Speech Assessment & Speech Assessment ,

Julie Cardona and Associates is a private Speech Therapy and Audiology practice located in the heart of Hillcrest, KZN.Julie Cardona (B. Speech and Hearing, UDW) started the practice in 2001. Since then the practice has grown, and currently has a staff of 11 people.The practice offers high quality individual speech therapy to children and adults, as well as diagnostic hearing assessments, hearing aid evaluations, and hearing aid fittings.Speech Therapy involves the diagnosis and management of a wide variety of disorders that may include;Speech disorders (difficulty pronouncing sounds or words)Language disorders (difficulty understanding what they hear and using words to convey a message)Cognitive-communication disorders (difficulty with thinking skills which may include comprehension, memory, awareness and reasoning)Stuttering/fluency (speech that may include prolongations and repetitions of sounds or words)Voice disorders (a quality of voice that may include hoarseness, nasality, volume