Say and Play - Speech and Language Therapy

	Assessment
	Therapy Provision

Speech and Language Preschool Groups

Therapy Provision

A Wide Range Of Therapy Alternatives which include: -

Individual sessions at our clinic or within some local schools. These can be between the hours of 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday - Friday

Say and Play Group therapy sessions Say and Play Group Therapy sessions are designed for children aged between 2 years 6 months and 6 years. These run during term time from 9.15 a.m. - 11.30 a.m. and 12.45 p.m. - 3.00p.m Monday - Friday.

Each group is specifically designed for types of communication difficulties and varies from term to term depending on the children's communication problems, but generally would include groups for:

1. Language Delays and Disorders.
2. Speech Delays and Disorders.
3. Pragmatic and Social Communication difficulties.
4. Autistic Spectrum Disorders.
5. Early Communication Skills.

Most groups are offered twice so children can benefit from twice weekly therapy.

Saturday morning Pragmatic and Social Communication Groups for school aged children run from 9-10.30 and 10.45 - 12.15 on Saturday mornings during term time.

Intensive therapy is offered in the school holidays. Children can be seen individually and /or in groups.

Review appointments are offered to children who may not require regular therapy or who have finished a course of therapy and need to have their progress monitored.

Parent Support. This is always provided at the end of each session in the form of general advice and specific activities that can be carried out at home to help the children.

Ideas for Early Language Development
We have 2 PDF documents : - 'Ideas for Early Language Development' which gives general advice for helping early language and 'Ideas for Language Development' which gives specific activities to carry out with your child to promote development of particular aspects of language. Both can be downloaded from our downloads page.

General Information

Therapy will be provided either by Janet Farrugia or one of the team of fully qualified and experienced Speech and Language Therapists.

Parents are invited and encouraged to sit in on sessions or part of a session where appropriate.

Time is allocated at the end of sessions to talk to parents. However, discussions requiring more than a few minutes should be carried out at a pre-arranged meeting.

This is particularly relevant for children attending Say and Play and/or in the process of being Statemented. It is important that you ensure maximum benefit from treatment through full co-operation and by following advice given.