Your Headspace provides a highly specialist speech and language therapy service. You will benefit from extensive experience and expertise in a range of speech and language disorders.
What do speech and language needs look like?
Specific speech and language needs may be hard to identify and may present as:
Children and young people with speech and language delays/ disorders may need support with related areas of development for example:
Your Headspace tailors therapy to take account of these potentially associated areas of need.
What speech, language and communication needs can Your Headspace help with?
Speech
Speech that is difficult to understand. Awareness of words and parts of words, telling the difference between speech sounds, telling the difference between words, articulating sounds, saying words and sentences clearly, generalising sounds into everyday speech, managing a speech difficulty appropriately in a social context.
Difficulties with speech sounds can impact on literacy skills.
Therapy can be tailored to take account
of and support a child/young person's literacy development. Close
collaboration with a child/young person's teacher would be
important.
Language
Understanding spoken and written language - understanding the meanings of words, understanding questions, understanding sentences of different length and complexity, understanding a story, understanding different styles of language, developing a child's/ young person's awareness of their understanding, managing a language difficulty appropriately in a social context.
Communication
Using language and communication skills appropriately in play, social and learning contexts - developing a joint focus for communication, listening and taking turns, managing communication with different people, using language to make friends, using language to express and manage emotions.
Speech and language
therapy fees:
Initial consultation 2 hours: £140
Subsequent sessions:
Travel expenses:
Further costs are negotiated in advance and may include mileage
and/or travel time at half the
sessional rate if journey time is over 45 minutes. Return
mileage is charged at 45 pence per mile
using the AA route finder.
What can I expect?
Initial consultation
The initial consultation is the start of the therapy process and
usually begins with a case history.
This involves structured questions to gather the information
needed to help paint as full a picture
as possible of a child's skills, strengths and needs. Time is also
needed for direct assessment
of the child's speech, language and communication skills.
Assessment includes discussion, detailed observation, informal
structured activities and formal
tests depending on a child's age and needs. At the end of the
initial consultation, findings and recommendations will be
discussed in full with you. Practical suggestions for activities
and strategies
will be explored during the session. You are supported to help your
child's speech, language and communication as soon as possible.
Further intervention and subsequent sessions
If further intervention is indicated, a therapy plan that includes a programme of practical strategies/ activities is discussed and formulated.
A therapy plan is based on:
The number of sessions that may be required are fully negotiated
and can vary depending on
individual needs.
The provision of independent therapy does not prevent a child or
young person from receiving
NHS therapy. Sometimes independent therapy is sought whilst waiting
for NHS therapy,
sometimes in between 'blocks' to 'top-up' therapy
received and sometimes alongside NHS therapy.
Whatever the circumstances, full co-operation and collaboration
between independent and
NHS speech and language therapists is expected and necessary
in a child's best interests.
This is set out in guidelines from the Royal College of Speech
and Language Therapists called
'Working in Harmony' - www.rcslt.org
t: 07947 844 362 e: zein@yourheadspace.co.uk
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