Helen

For ten years I worked as a speech therapist in a group practice in Brussels. It didn’t take long for me to discover my love for toddlers and preschoolers. Soon I immersed myself in multilingual development to better help children living in Brussels. Now, working at Meráki, I treat multilingual children between the ages 2 and 6 with language and speech development problems.

I graduated from Ghent University in 2012 as a speech therapist. I also attained a postgraduate degree in multilingualism at the Thomas More University of Applied Sciences, and have continued to educate myself by taking all kinds of additional courses.

Specialisations

Multilingualism
Language development
Speech development
- Phonology
- Apraxia of speech

Additional trainings

Postgraduaat Meertaligheid (2017 - 2018)

Selectief mutisme: logopedische behandeling (2022)
Stotteren: basiskennis (2022)
Feel empowered treating speech (2021)
Ultimate Play Based Therapy Course (2021)
PROMPT basis (2020)
Taalmaatjes: Logopedische ouderbegeleiding bij kleuters (2019)
Diagnose en behandeling van velopharyngeale insufficiëntie bij schisis (2018)
Spraakontwikkelingsdyspraxie (2018)
Hodson & Paden (2017)
Aanvankelijk lezen en spellen effectief aanpakken (2017)
Aanvankelijk rekenen en rekenen tot 20 (2017)
Stotteren en meertaligheid (2017)
Rekenen met RekenTrapperS in 1, 2 en 3 (2017)
TOS in het kleuter- en lager onderwijs (2016)
OMFT basiskennis (2016)
Methaphon (2015)

Sofie

In 2015, I graduated from Catholic University of Leuven and started as a speech therapist in Brussels. I gained experience both at an independent speech therapy practice and at the expertise centre for multilingualism at Foyer. Over the past few years, I have attained three post graduate degrees and have followed various additional courses and trainings. I currently treat children, adolescents and adults who stutter, as well as multilingual children with language problems.

Specialisations

Multilingualism
Stuttering in children, adolescents and adults
Language development

Additional trainings

Postgraduaat Meertaligheid (2017 - 2018)
Postgraduaat NT2 (2019 - 2020)
Postgraduaat Vloeiendheidsstoornissen ECSF (2021 - 2022)

KIDS (2022)
Restart-DCM (2022)
Cognitieve gedragstherapie stotteren (2022)
Broddelen: basiskennis
Online leertraject fonologie (2020 - 2021)
Typ10 (2020)
ALDeQ-NL (2020)
Taalmaatjes (2019)
OMFT basiskennis (2018)
Symposium Ouderbegeleiding (2017)
Onverstaanbare kinderen snel en efficiënt verstaanbaar maken a.d.h.v. de fonologische methode Hodson & Paden en andere (2017)
Aanvankelijk rekenen en rekenen tot 20 (2017)
Rekenen met RekenTrapperS in 1, 2 en 3 (2017)
Stotteren en meertaligheid (2017)
TOS in het kleuter- en lager onderwijs (2016)
Sprint voor logopedisten (2015)