Sadiyya Peer
Speech Language Therapist
Sadiyya Peer is a Speech-Language Therapist at Apricot Tree Stimulation Centre who specializes in the field of pediatric feeding and communication difficulties. She provides life-improving treatment to our special needs children who have a range of communication difficulties that allows them to enhance their communication and reach their maximum potential in all areas of communication and in feeding skills in a safe manner.
She qualified as a speech-language therapist in 2006 and has since specialized in paediatrics- her forte in special needs began in 2014 when she found Apricot Tree. Our transdisciplinary teamwork, vision and meeting each child’s needs rooted her in our centre where she has remained since.
Sadiyya has been trained in NDT (neuro-developmental therapies, Makaton South African sign language (level 1-6),PROMPT and DIR floortime trained as well. Her love for high and low tech AAC as well as working with the amazingly enthusiastic teachers and other therapists at Apricot Tree helps us create an individualized treatment and assessment plans for each of our children’s unique abilities.
“It’s amazing to find such a resourceful centre, filled with teachers and facilitators that not only go the extra mile for each child- but assist in follow-through of each child’s targets for communication and feeding skills. This provides quicker growth and provides many more opportunities for generalization for each child.”