WORDSWELL SERVICES FOR CHILDREN

Speech and language therapy training covers communication and swallowing needs associated with genetic and medical conditions, trauma, developmental delays, mental health problems and learning needs in both children and adults.

Janet, Angela, Marianne, Lauren and Emily work with children who have speech, voice, fluency, language, social skills and literacy needs.

We are registered with the Health and Care Professions Council, have enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service checks and are all members of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists. Janet is also a member of the Expert Witness Institute and the Royal Society of Medicine.

Janet, Emily, Angela, Marianne and Lauren see children for regular speech and language therapy sessions at our clinic base in Little Downham, in their their homes, nurseries or schools within a 50 mile radius of Ely in Cambridgeshire. We also have clinics in Bury St.Edmunds and Cambridge.

Many of the children we work with are funded through their statements of special educational needs by the Local Education Authorities of Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Cambridgeshire, Peterborough, Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire. Others are funded through medical insurance, charities or their families.

Over half of the children we work with have an autistic spectrum condition and we provide all the speech and language therapy to the pupils at Gretton School, Girton, Cambridge - a specialist independent school for pupils with Asperger Syndrome.

Other children have spoken and written speech, language and communication needs associated with dyslexia or deafness. Others have learning needs.

Many have complex needs which may also include emotional, behavioural and social needs such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.