May is Speech and Hearing Month, with this year’s theme being S-LPs & Audiologists: Doing More Than You Think. We were able to sit down and speak with Stéphanie Maillet, who’s a speech-language pathologist with a private practice right here in Bathurst.
Stéphanie works through a private clinic based out of Moncton called Clinique Collabor’Action. She serves New Brunswick and Nova Scotia virtually, and here in the Chaleur Region, she does in-person sessions.
The Doing More Than You Think theme for this year is all about understanding everything that speech-language pathologists and audiologists do.
According to the Speech-Language and Audiology Canada Website:
May is Speech & Hearing Month, a time to shine a spotlight on communication health and the life-changing work of S-LPs and audiologists. This year’s theme, ‘S-LPs & Audiologists: Doing More Than You Think’, highlights the vital yet often overlooked role of S-LPs and audiologists.
“We can help with babies all the way until end of life, and everything in between,” says Stéphanie.
“We help babies with latching for breastfeeding. We help kids with speech and communication. Some will never be able to speak, but we help with non-verbal communication as well. Pronunciation of words for other kids, we help with stuttering. Then there are adults dealing with traumatic events or degenerative diseases. We also work with people who have difficulty swallowing, and we’ll work on the voices of adults as well.”
Stéphanie wants to clear up the misconception that they only deal with sounds—there’s way more to what they do.
Stéphanie always knew that she wanted to help people. Born in Memramcook, she took a position in Campbellton after graduation. Wanting to be closer to her family, she relocated to Bathurst in 2015. Here, she worked at the hospital until August of last year, and now she has her own private practice.
You can find her business page on Facebook and Instagram, where she offers some valuable information that many will find helpful.
When asked if there was anything that parents should know, Stéphanie says that it’s better to be safe than sorry.
“For parents who aren’t sure—seek help as early as possible. If you wait, it could get worse, and the worst thing that happens is that we do an assessment and there’s nothing wrong.”
You can visit the Speech-Language and Audiology Canada website here for more information: speech-hearing-month
We want to thank Stéphanie Maillet for being a guest on this week’s edition of The Northern Heat Report.
This is an important subject and one with some misconceptions, so we want to thank her for clearing that up and for doing so much great work all around New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
If you have any questions, her contact information can be found hereWell, that’s it for another edition of The Northern Heat Report—the place you come to listen to the stories that have not yet been discovered.