Assessment usually takes place within the family home, where you and your child are comfortable and relaxed. Interacting with children within an environment they are familiar with enables me to observe their communication skills at their most natural. When regular therapeutic input is recommended, this can be organised to take place within the school setting for school-aged children and teenagers, or for preschoolers either at home or within their nursery setting.
Assessment sessions will involve the completion of a case history. A range of formal and informal measures may be used to assess your child's communication skills depending on their age and the areas of communication being investigated. The results will be discussed with you at the end of the session, along with suggestions of targets, if appropriate, and a summary report will be provided in due course. Charges for an initial assessment can be found in the Services & Fees section of the website.
Therapy sessions are typically 30-45 minutes, including time for feedback and discussion with parents and/or school staff. Ideally one parent (or teaching assistant if in school) will be present during therapy so that the activities focussed on can be practised between sessions, leading to better generalisation and carryover of skills and therefore quicker progress. Charges per session can be found in the Services & Fees section of the website.
Therapy can can be used to target a broad range of areas including but not limited to:
-Listening and Attention Skills
-Vocabulary Understanding, Storage and Retrieval
-Sequencing and Narrative Skills
-Expressive Language Skills (this may include a focus on language expansion, sentence structure, grammatical elements, tense markers, increasing sentence length and complexity, using language for different purposes e.g. defining and describing, asking questions etc)
-Using a Total Communication Approach e.g. AAC, objects of reference, photo prompts, communication books, Makaton signing etc
-Receptive Language Skills (this may include understanding of vocabulary, following spoken instructions of increasing length and complexity, developing concept knowledge, understanding different question forms etc)
-Speech Delay/Disorder
-Developmental Verbal Dyspraxia/Childhood Apraxia of Speech
-Stammering/Stuttering
-Inferential Reasoning
-Verbal Reasoning
-Social Communication: this may include a focus on supporting a child or young person with the areas listed below, however my approach is person centred and focussed on supporting children to celebrate and embrace their true selves. I do not promote goals which encourage children to mask or change who they are to fit in with their peers or society. My aim is to increase childrens’ knowledge of their strengths and develop their awareness of what helps them, and learn to advocate for these supports. Target areas may link to joint attention, reciprocal interaction, collaborative play, understanding of vocabulary linked to feelings and emotions, developing awareness of others perspectives, conversation skills, social problem-solving, understanding of the concept of friendship, team-working, self-advocacy, emotional regulation, interoception etc)
Assessment sessions will involve the completion of a case history. A range of formal and informal measures may be used to assess your child's communication skills depending on their age and the areas of communication being investigated. The results will be discussed with you at the end of the session, along with suggestions of targets, if appropriate, and a summary report will be provided in due course. Charges for an initial assessment can be found in the Services & Fees section of the website.
Therapy sessions are typically 30-45 minutes, including time for feedback and discussion with parents and/or school staff. Ideally one parent (or teaching assistant if in school) will be present during therapy so that the activities focussed on can be practised between sessions, leading to better generalisation and carryover of skills and therefore quicker progress. Charges per session can be found in the Services & Fees section of the website.
Therapy can can be used to target a broad range of areas including but not limited to:
-Listening and Attention Skills
-Vocabulary Understanding, Storage and Retrieval
-Sequencing and Narrative Skills
-Expressive Language Skills (this may include a focus on language expansion, sentence structure, grammatical elements, tense markers, increasing sentence length and complexity, using language for different purposes e.g. defining and describing, asking questions etc)
-Using a Total Communication Approach e.g. AAC, objects of reference, photo prompts, communication books, Makaton signing etc
-Receptive Language Skills (this may include understanding of vocabulary, following spoken instructions of increasing length and complexity, developing concept knowledge, understanding different question forms etc)
-Speech Delay/Disorder
-Developmental Verbal Dyspraxia/Childhood Apraxia of Speech
-Stammering/Stuttering
-Inferential Reasoning
-Verbal Reasoning
-Social Communication: this may include a focus on supporting a child or young person with the areas listed below, however my approach is person centred and focussed on supporting children to celebrate and embrace their true selves. I do not promote goals which encourage children to mask or change who they are to fit in with their peers or society. My aim is to increase childrens’ knowledge of their strengths and develop their awareness of what helps them, and learn to advocate for these supports. Target areas may link to joint attention, reciprocal interaction, collaborative play, understanding of vocabulary linked to feelings and emotions, developing awareness of others perspectives, conversation skills, social problem-solving, understanding of the concept of friendship, team-working, self-advocacy, emotional regulation, interoception etc)
