I help young people with speech, language and communication needs and dyslexia. I am happy to carry out home visits, to assess clients in their own environment. I have been working as a Speech and Language Therapist (SLT) and Dyslexia Teacher within a specialist secondary setting in Kent since 2010. I worked as an SLT within the NHS for over 15 years, spending the last few years as a Highly Specialist Paediatric SLT for children from 1.5 years up to secondary. I graduated from University College London in 1996 and in 2015 completed my MSc. in Language and Communication Impairment in Children (LACIC). I have completed the Introduction and Bridging training from PROMPT (Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets). The technique is a tactile-kinesthetic approach that uses touch cues to a patient’s articulators (jaw, tongue, lips) to manually guide them through a targeted word, phrase or sentence. I am also registered as a Dyslexia Teacher and completed my Post Graduate Dipl. in Dyslexia and Literacy at York in 2002. I am a qualified and registered Signalong Tutor and have a clean enhanced DRB certificate. I have provided extensive training within school and health settings (e.g. Cued Articulation, Signalong, Supporting SLCN in schools) and have been a Senior Lecturer at a University in Kent teaching on their Speech and Language Therapy course since 2008. I have co-written three articles, reviewed materials for reviewers and presented my work at conferences and to special interest groups. I have a number of research interests that include Speech Disorders, the relationship between spoken and written language disorders and Developmental Language Disorder. I offer diagnostic assessment, second opinions, therapy, contributions for EHCP (Education, Health & Care Plans) applications, target setting and school programmes and therapy.

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