Speech and Language Therapy Service - SaLT
The Speech and Language Therapist aims to reduce the impact of speech, language, or communication needs (SLCN) and eating, drinking, and swallowing difficulties. This may be by:
• promoting awareness of children’s speech and language development and needs by working with parents and carers and a wide range of other professionals to maximise the child’s communication environments
• identifying, assessing, and defining interventions for children who are experiencing speech, language, and communication difficulties such as understanding spoken or signed language, communicating verbally using sentences and vocabulary appropriate for their age, using speech sounds appropriate for their age, social interaction, and play, stammering, voice production
• providing appropriate therapies that promote the development of age-appropriate communication skills
• providing specialist support to children and young people with complex learning difficulties and/or health needs
• reducing the impact of eating and drinking and swallowing difficulties caused by medical, neurological, or structural abnormalities.