Services we offer

Are you looking for help and support with difficulties in the following areas?

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Communication and Children

SLT Leeds can help your child with talking. Whether pre-school or school-age, SLT Leeds can help children who are failing to make typical progress in their speech, language or communication. This includes children who have difficulties with their voice, making speech sounds, phonology and phonological awareness, intelligibility and being understood, oro-motor difficulties / verbal dyspraxia, using grammar, learning vocabulary, word-finding skills, managing a stammer, selective mutism, auditory memory and processing, language delay or disorder, social skills awareness and understanding, and general communication skills.

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SLT Leeds and Stammer

SLT Leeds aims to help people who stammer understand their stammering behaviour and enable them to make changes which can affect their stammer and impact an individuals’ quality of life.

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Communication and Autism Spectrum Conditions

SLT Leeds will provide children and adults with ASC, the means to make free choices, express their feelings, to learn, and to increase their independence. SLT Leeds will work with the individual, support other professionals involved and will provide carers and educators with the means to support individuals. If your child may be on the ASC spectrum and are awaiting, or have just received a diagnosis, SLT Leeds can help by observing and assessing your child’s needs.

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SLT Leeds and Voice

SLT Leeds will set goals to improve the way your voice works and to reduce the difficulties that a voice disorder can cause. SLT Leeds aims to restore the vocal skills necessary for the individual’s occupational and social needs.

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Communication and Behaviour Difficulties

SLT Leeds will advise on behavioural difficulties of children and young people who need extra communication support. SLT Leeds can input on communication and social skills strategies to help individuals and their families.

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Communication and Learning Disability

SLT Leeds will promote a child or adult with learning disability’s communication skills for independence, choice, inclusion, rights and serve to enable the maximum involvement of the individual. Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) can be used such as Makaton, PECS, hi-tech devices such as iPads etc can be advised and introduced.

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Communication and Confidence

SLT Leeds will help to identify the loss of confidence an individual may feel as a communicator. We will work with you on self-esteem and assertiveness skills to encourage an improvement in your communication skills.

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SLT Leeds and Training & Presentations

SLT Leeds recognises the need to train professionals/carers/educators/employers in understanding communication difficulties. Helping others to understand your communication needs may be of significant benefit in overcoming your communication difficulties.

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