Little Figures of Speech is a well established speech and language therapy practice in the heart of Durbanville. It is owned by two passionate and enthusiastic speech and language therapists, Ivette Weyers & Annelize Claassens.
AS HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
we believe that a child’s speech and language abilities are the biggest and most important predictors of his/her academic success. We are equipped to assess the child’s skills holistically and to provide the most effective and accurate treatment plan, as well as advice and support to the parents and caregivers. We render our services at our practice rooms or at nearby schools in the Northern Suburbs.
ANNELIZE CLAASSENS
Senior Therapist
I studied at Stellenbosch University and graduated with an Honours degree in 2011. There after I completed my Community Service year in the Northern Cape where I had the opportunity to start and manage a speech therapy department. There I had the opportunity to work in different settings (clinic, hospitals and schools) and realised my passion for paediatric speech therapy.
I started my own private practice in Aliwal North where my main focus was early intervention and school aged children. I have a passion for reading and spelling therapy and did extra training in this area. I am a qualified Read for Africa phonografix reading therapist and also a dyslexia specialist.
After 5 years of enjoying my own practice, I relocated to Cape Town and had my beautiful twins (Lisa and Henri). In 2018 I joined forces with Ivette Weyers and we have since been working together as Speech Therapists at ‘Little Figures of Speech’.
IVETTE WEYERS
Senior Therapist
I obtained my Honours degree in Speech Therapy from Stellenbosch University in 2011. During my community service year in the Eastern Cape, I worked in a variety of settings, including hospitals, clinics and schools. My primary focus, however, was on working with the paediatric population. In 2013, I relocated to Cape Town, where I’ve been working in private practice ever since. Though I have experience with the assessment and treatment of many speech and language disorders, I am particularly passionate about auditory processing disorders, fluency, phonological disorders and language impairments of pre-school and school-aged children. Playing a part in a child’s progress and celebrating that progress is especially gratifying to me. Annelize Claassens and I have been working together at Little Figures of Speech since 2018.
