Speech Therapy in Gurgaon

Speech and language therapy in Gurgaon covers a wider span than any other service we run: a toddler with no words, a child who stammers, and an adult relearning speech or swallowing after a stroke are all speech and language work. The centre is in Gurgaon itself. This page sets out what we treat, how often, and the part that actually decides whether it works.

Our Gurugram centre

eMbrace Gurugram is at 710, DLF City Court, Mehrauli-Gurgaon Road, Nathupur, Sector 24, Gurugram 122002. Guru Dronacharya on the Yellow Line is roughly 700 metres away, which makes this one of the few specialist child psychology services in Gurugram you can reach without a car.

That matters for families coming from DLF Phases 1 to 4, Sushant Lok, Sector 54 and the sectors around it, and it matters again for teenagers who would rather come to a session independently than be dropped off by a parent.

Delhi families sometimes choose Gurugram over our Delhi centres simply because the Mehrauli-Gurgaon Road run is easier from where they live than crossing south Delhi. Either centre is fine, and the same pathway runs at both.

Sessions are weekly, and here is the part providers underplay: the session matters less than the ten minutes a day at home. This is skill practice, built by repetition in ordinary settings rather than in a clinic room once a week. If ten minutes daily is not realistic right now, say so and we will build a smaller programme that is.

For parking, the nearest drop-off point and the quickest route at your particular time of day, ask on the intake call. Traffic and parking around every one of these centres change enough through the day that current directions from someone who works there beat anything we could fix on a web page.

What we treat

The two ends of the range look nothing alike. For children: late talking, unclear speech, language that is not developing, stammering, feeding and oral motor difficulty, cleft lip and palate, cochlear implant support, verbal dyspraxia, and the social use of language in autism. For adults, mostly after neurological illness: aphasia, dysarthria, voice and difficulty swallowing safely.

• A child with fewer than around fifty words at two, or not putting words together by two and a half
• Speech that people outside the family cannot understand by around four
• Stammering that has lasted more than six months, or that the child has become aware of
• Coughing or distress when eating or drinking, at any age, which should be looked at promptly
• Adults with speech, voice or swallowing difficulty after a stroke or with a progressive condition

Each of these has its own page on our speech and language hub.

What the first appointment involves

An assessment first, because difficulties that look identical can have quite different causes. We take a history, analyse speech and language directly, and check the mechanics where feeding or oral motor control are involved. Hearing is always considered, being the commonest missed explanation for a language delay.

You leave with a baseline, targets in plain terms, and specific things to do at home. With young children the parent session matters as much as the child session, since you run the practice.

What we see most of here

Gurugram families reach this service differently from every other one on the site, because there is no speech and language pathologist based at that centre. Most work online, and a good deal of speech and language therapy suits that well, particularly language work and parent-delivered practice.

Where hands-on assessment is needed, particularly for feeding, swallowing or oral motor difficulty, families travel to one of our Delhi centres, and we say which is closer on the intake call rather than after you have booked.

Who you would see at our Gurugram centre

Dr Supriya Malik, Founder and CEO, and Head of the Child Development Centre at Rainbow

PhD in Developmental Psychology from the University of Birmingham, where she was also a postdoctoral researcher, and a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society in the UK. She designed the assessment and therapy pathways every eMbrace centre runs.

We do not have a speech and language pathologist based at our Gurugram centre, and it is better to say so than to have you discover it after booking. Gurugram families see Upasna at either of our Delhi centres, or work online, which suits a good deal of speech and language therapy well. We will sort out which on the intake call.

Schools and services we already work with

Referrals around Gurgaon reach this service through several routes, and the institutional ones are worth knowing about.

We work with Pathways School Gurgaon on psychoeducational, cognitive and risk assessments, therapy for children and adolescents, and workshops for teachers, parents and pupils.

Through The Medical Travel Company we provide autism and ADHD assessment and therapy for families in the UK, across Africa and elsewhere in India, on hybrid, in-person and online programmes.

Fees and how long it takes

Fees are quoted upfront on your intake call and depend on the clinician and the frequency. Courses are typically blocks of eight to twelve weekly sessions followed by a review, rather than an open-ended commitment.

How long depends on what is being treated. An articulation difficulty often resolves in a block or two. Language disorder, verbal dyspraxia and post-stroke aphasia are longer, and we say which you are looking at rather than letting you assume the shorter one.

Frequently asked questions