Speech and Language Therapy

Speech and Language Therapists can work with children of all ages 0-18 years.

Children come to see us because there are concerns about:

• Feeding
• Speech and Language development (understanding and using language)
• Speech clarity
• Voice quality
• Stammering
• Social and interactional skills
• Listening and attention
• Literacy
• Global developmental delay
• Autism
• Bilingualism

Children are referred by:

• GPs
• Paediatricians
• Paediatric Neurologists
• Otolaryngologsists / ENT Specialists
• Psychologists and Psychiatrists
• Other professionals
• Schools and Nurseries
• Parents

We carry out an assessment to establish the nature of the child's difficulties and suggest a therapy programme comprising:

• Individual therapy
• Group therapy
• A combination of Individual and Group therapy
• School programme
• Home programme
• Review monitoring

We work with many children from non-english speaking backgrounds. We are able to carry out assessments in French, Japanese, Greek, German, Italian, basic Spanish and Arabic. We are happy to work with interpreters. Therapy is usually carried out in English if the patient is an English speaking educational placement. Therapy can be provided in French, Greek, Japanese, basic Spanish, German, Italian and other languages via an interpreter.

Speech Language Therapists and Therapy Assistants are able to follow through programmes at school and at home.

The programmes are supervised on a weekly basis by a senior Speech and Language Therapist.

The child's progress is monitored to ensure that the programme fulfils the child's needs and that the mode of therapy is the most appropriate.