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Welcome to Speak Up Salford

"all about Speech, Language and Communication"

 

Salford Children's Services:

Empowered to Enable

 

Communication is central to everything we do

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It affects who we are, how we develop and learn, and how we make friends at school and at work.

 

Communication begins even before a baby is born. Around the seventh and eighth month, a foetus’ heart rate slows down slightly whenever their mother is speaking, showing that mum's voice has a calming effect. By the time they are born, babies can actually recognize their mother's voice. Mums and dads talking to their baby will help the baby’s brain to grow and this happens all the way through childhood.

 

Our children and young people need families and professionals to work together to support their

speech, language and communication to help them achieve their full potential.

 

For more information, contact us at childrensspeech&languagesalford@nca.nhs.uk

 

 

 

 

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My City Directory is your go-to resource for discovering a wide range of services, activities and events on offer across Salford and Greater Manchester.

My City Directory provides information on a wealth of local services aimed at enhancing your daily life, enriching your leisure time, and keeping you informed about everything happening in your city. Click here to access the directory. 

 

Salford Family Hubs are places in the local community where different organisations work together, to offer a one stop shop, for families with children aged 0 -19 and up to 25 for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). Services include support for during pregnancy and after birth, child health, targeted early help, relationships and parenting, SEND provision, Perinatal parent infant mental health services (PPIMHS) and support for young people. The Hubs offer a warm and welcoming space where families can access information and support and have a say on what could be delivered. Click here to access My Best Life to find out more about the offer for families from Salford Family Hubs. 

 

NEWS/ EVENTS

Examples of What We Offer

Early Years

Our Early Years team follow the Greater Manchester Early Years Delivery Model (EYDM). They work in close partnership with health, local authority and social care colleagues to support early identification of speech, language and communication needs to ensure the right support at the right time for children, parents/ carers and settings.

School and Post 16

We work within with settings to identify and support communication needs. This could through training staff, modelling and coaching, whole class/ small group input and 1:1 interventions. There is a wide virtual training offer available for Salford schools. Please speak to the school/ college Link Speech and Language Therapist if you have any questions. 

 

 Enhanced Services

The Enhanced Speech and Language Therapy (SALT) Service allows settings to buy-in additional support. This is bespoke to each setting and might involve universal, targeted and specialist input and training. For further information, please contact  salttraining@nca.nhs.uk

 

I would also like to say that I am very impressed with the work Speech and Language Therapist is doing in school as well as the professional way she deals with my parents and her helpful advise to my staff. I believe credit where credit is due.

School staff

I have found working with the speech therapist very beneficial. She helps me to set achievable goals for the children by coming into the nursery and interacting with the children and getting to know them. She talks to us on a regular basis and updates us on what targets she would like the children to achieve next. She teaches us new strategies to use with the children which we find really useful, we try to incorporate this into everyday activities. Parent’s often comment on how much they appreciate the advice from our therapist. They also comment on how much progress their children have made since visiting her. We don’t know what we would do without her!

Anneka Williamson, Children’s Centre Practitioner

My child absolutely LOVES coming to see you, you are so good with him. We are extremely grateful for all of your care and support. He is counting down the days until we can come again.

Parent

I just wanted to send a quick email to say thank you for the training you delivered for us this afternoon, it was so useful and informative. It was great to have further training that was bespoke to Early Years and built on what we had done in the whole school training. We're excited to start implementing it for our children.

Early Years Teacher

EPs and SALT frequently work together during Multi agency meetings to clarify individual concerns and strengths. We develop joint objectives, that are regularly reviewed and evaluated to improve outcomes for children and young people. Parents and teachers comment that this work is effective and helps to increase their understanding and knowledge. Jointly we increase schools capacity, through conversations and training, to meet the needs of their pupils.

Joanne Snee- Educational Psychologist

I am new to the role and I have found all members of the team extremely helpful and have gone out of their way to support me.

School SENCo

This is great and I am so appreciative of your support. We have nothing but fantastic things to say about the Salford SALT team and the support that you have given to both of our children.

Parent