The Talk With Us team is proficient in managing significant caseloads following our extensive experience working for the NHS and in the independent sector in both mainstream and special schools.
We provide a dependable and skilled service that ensures continuity of therapy and thus we are able to develop a meaningful relationship with the child, parent and school staff.
Talk With Us is, and has been, fully integrated into a variety of school communities in and around London through our close liaison with staff throughout the educational hierarchy, from Local Authorities, to governors, to teachers and to parents.
We have extensive experience working with individual London based schools in order to support their SEN children with speech, language and communication needs in the following ways:
- Working collaboratively with staff and parents
- Initial consultations: detailed case history, initial assessment and reports
- Review assessments
- Statutory assessments
- Designing groups to support differing needs (phonology, social communication, memory, expressive language groups)
- Individual or group therapy sessions depending on the childs needs
- Input into Individual Education Plans (I.E.P.s) and Annual Reviews
- Advice and tailored targets / programmes to suit childrens needs
- Informal training to parents / carers / Teaching Assistants and school or nursery staff
- Formal training packages upon request
- Working collaboratively with NHS Speech and Language Therapists and other L.A. professionals
- Telephone consultations with parents and other professionals
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Our approach and our achievements mean that we are able to call upon a number of testimonials and references from a variety of sources.
” Children, parents and staff at Barnfield School are benefitting from Talk with Us specialist knowledge of speech and language. Naomi has assessed children, written reports, set targets and had consultations with parents and advised them. Naomi is training staff with using strategies and resources with individual children and has recently developed a social skills programme for focused children training a support teacher. Naomi’s expertise with speech and language is enabling the children to make steps of progress and develop the staffs knowledge. “
Lorraine Welch (SENCO)
Testimonial from Salcombe Preparatory School, London Borough of Enfield
” Hannah has been our school Speech and Language Therapist for over 6 years. During this time she has worked with a variety of children, providing ongoing therapy. She has spent time working with the school staff by running training courses and developing their knowledge, which in turn enables the children to make the most amount of progress. Hannah is a valued member of the school who is reliable and supportive. The children look forward to Hannah’s sessions which are creative and fun.”
(Sarah Jane Davies Head Teacher)
Testimonial from Wessex Gardens School, London Borough of Barnet
” Talk With Us have been working with us for three years. While we have an excellent mainstream therapist, she is restricted to providing assessment and direct therapy. Talk With Us complements this by providing developmental work. For one term each year they work predominantly in Early Years, working with groups, modelling good practice in the indoor and outdoor classrooms and training staff. We have found Hannah and Naomi to be very flexible and eager to work alongside our staff in the planning, delivery and evaluation process. Their input has had a very positive impact on our Early Years practice, giving better outcomes for children.”
Helen Ruthvmen (Assistant Head/ Inclusion Leader)
Vicar’s Green School, London Borough of Ealing
Testimonial from Southover Partnership
” We have been working with Talk With Us for 3 years now and their excellent SLTs have worked with pupils between the ages of 11 and 19 with a large range of challenges across our 3 sites.
The therapists at Talk With Us are extremely professional, flexible and experienced. Their one-to-one sessions and the individualised targets and programmes that they create empower our young people to express themselves with increased ease and confidence. Our partnership with Talk With us involves an ongoing dialogue about each student so that, together with families, we can share observations and recommendations about each young person’s progress.
We are fortunate to be working with such experts in their field and have no hesitation in providing a testimonial for Talk With Us.”
Karen Gubbay (Deputy Head Teacher)
