West Midlands Speech & Language Therapy Service
‘Working in partnership with education and parents to empower children and young adults to reach their communication potential and lead enriched and fulfilled lives’
Speech & Language for Early Years
We understand the importance of providing all children with a solid foundation in the early years to help them achieve the best start in life.
Speech & Language for Primary School
‘More than half of children starting education in socially deprived areas of England have delayed language, while their cognitive abilities are in the average range for their age’ (Gascoigne,2012)
Speech & Language for Secondary School
Did you know……Children with Speech, Language and Communication Needs perform significantly lower than their peers at GCSE’s (DfE GCSE results, 2016)
Speech & Language for Specialist Provision (0-25)
Speech, language and communication needs continues to be the most prevalent special educational need. We believe that access to specialist communication support is essential for our young students to reach their full potential
Speech & Language for Families
Current research estimates that 1 in 10 children may experience speech and language difficulties. We work in partnership with parents and education staff to help children achieve their full potential.
Speech, Language & Communication Needs
What is speech & Language Therapy, why might it be necessary and who can benefit ?
Who we are & how we can help
West Midlands Speech & Language Therapy are a well-established team of qualified and highly experienced therapists providing a quality, bespoke service to our clients. We work with children and young people with communication difficulties from 0-25 years across numerous settings including nursery schools, children’s centres/clinics, mainstream primary and secondary schools as well as in specialist provision for young children and adults.
Meet the team & find out more with the video below!
“If children with language delay do not get timely support, their difficulties will continue and can adversely affect academic and social relationships” (Sage 2005)
“Our Therapist’s professionalism and knowledge are excellent and she has been an asset to the school” (Class Teacher – Birmingham Primary School)
“The service is flexible, responsive and meets our needs in supporting children and staff - staff have been up skilled and have improved their capacity to support SLCN in class” (Birmingham Primary school SENDCo)
WMSLT – Hot off the Press!
I CAN Early Talk Boost TARGETED Training: 23rd October 2018 (Birmingham)
A one day training course providing staff with skills to lead targeted intervention sessions aimed at 3-4 year
I CAN Talk Boost KS1 TARGETED Training: 24th October 2018 (Birmingham)
A one day training course providing staff with skills to lead targeted intervention sessions aimed at 4-7 year
Language For Thinking
Primary use is for enhancing verbal reasoning skills but it can develop understanding of wh- questions and sentence
Semantic Steps
For use with children and adults to aid categorisation skills, improve word finding and support vocabulary learning. The
No current vacancies at present
If you are interested in working with us, please send your CV via email to office@wmspeechtherapy.co.uk and get
I CAN Early Talk UNIVERSAL
Aimed at the early year's workforce in partnership with parents to support the communication needs of children from
I CAN Talk Boost KS2 TARGETED Training: 25th October 2018 (Birmingham)
A one day training course providing staff with skills to lead targeted intervention sessions aimed at 7-10 year
I CAN Primary Talk UNIVERSAL
A training programme that supports the communication development of primary aged children, including those with speech, language and
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WEST MIDLANDS SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPY SERVICE SPRING NEWSLETTER 2018
WEST MIDLANDS SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPY SERVICE SPRING NEWSLETTER 2018 “With 1 in 10 children under 5 years
