What is Speech and Language Therapy?

Speech and language therapy is all about FUN! Facilitating your child’s communication skills should be done in a way that they can’t wait to join in. We all learn best and remember the most about things that we enjoyed.

Speech and language therapy takes so many different forms and is aimed at identifying your child’s strengths and needs and then planning together the best way to support and develop these.

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How does it work?

An initial assessment of your child’s skills will highlight areas of strength and need. Together we will devise a plan to target areas of need whilst promoting areas of strength.

Our role is to support you in facilitating your child’s speech, language and communication skills, and in being your child’s biggest champion!

Therapy sessions may be weekly, fortnightly, monthly or less frequent – depending on need. Crucially in between each session you will be given advice, strategies and activities to work on specific skills. It is the day-to-day practice that makes the biggest difference!

Who is it appropriate for?

Speech and language therapy is appropriate for any individual who is having difficulty with any aspect of their speech, language or communication skills.

The main areas that we look at are:

• Expressive language delay.
• Receptive language delay.
• Language disorders.
• Speech sound difficulties.
• Social skills.
• Auditory memory difficulties.
• Word finding difficulties.

What next?

Please call to discuss if a speech and language therapy assessment would be appropriate for your child and to arrange for an assessment.