#SpeakUpSalford

Parents
& Carers

Welcome to the speech, language and communication service. 

 

There is no manual to help us bring up our children. We hope that this area of our website helps you find the information you need to help support your child’s speech, language and communication skills. If there is some information that that you can’t find, please drop us a line at speakup.salford@nca.nhs.uk and we will get right on to it

 

Our team of Speech and Language Therapists are experts in speech, language and communication development. They specialise in helping children of all ages overcome difficulties with speech and language, as well as helping those who have problems with eating and swallowing. 


All our specialist staff are graduates with Honours and/or Masters Degrees .Our  Speech and Language Therapy are all registered with the Health  and Care Professions Council (HCPC) which is a regulatory body  ensuring  that  staff uphold a set of standards to protect the public.

 

We also have a team of Communication Development Workers (CDWs) who work closely with the Speech and Language Therapists. They have lots of experience working with children and undergo our additional training.  The CDWs focus on babies, toddlers and nursery age children, supporting parents and early years staff through home visits and our very popular parent/child interaction workshops called “Talking Tots".

 

In Salford we also have a team of specialist teachers and Educational Psychologists who work directly with children or schools to support children with additional needs.

How can I help my child?

Click here for resources and advice.

What if my child needs support from a Speech and Language Therapist?

Click here for more information on how to request support.

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