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About our service
We work across community locations to support children, families and other professionals in the areas of speech, language and communication needs including:
- Social communication and Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Developmental Language Disorde
- Speech sound
- Dysfluency
- Voice
- Cleft Lip and Palate
- Deafness
- Feeding and swallowing difficulties
- Augmentative and alternative communication.
What we need from you
Parents to be available for clinic or home appointment or to attend school sessions- Educational staff to be available to observe, liaise and work with the therapist
- Parents or staff to carry out activities and recommendations as suggested for input to be effective.
What you can expect from us
We will conduct formal and informal assessments and observations in clinic, school or at home.
At the appointment, we will:
- Discuss your history and gather information
- Carry out an assessment with one of our speech and language therapists
- Discuss a diagnosis or description of needs
- Following the assessment, advice will be provided and, if appropriate, children will receive support from our team. This may be directly from the speech and language therapist or indirectly through advice/training provided to the parent or professional working with the child.
Referrals
The Children’s Speech and Language Therapy Service in St Helens has an open referral system, which means that any person in the child’s life can refer with permission from the child’s legal guardian.
To make a referral, please complete our referral form ensuring all information is included and send it to: mcn-tr
We can see your child in: nursery, school, at clinic or at home. We will assess your child’s speech, language and communication needs and share outcomes and agree the next steps.
We offer one to one therapy sessions. This intervention could be within the nursery setting or classroom to ensure your child has a communication friendly environment.
This involves a therapist or therapy assistant talking through the targets and demonstrating activities to support your child’s communication through others in their language/home environment.
Feedback
“Really helpful that the SLT demonstrated and explained where and how sounds are made so I could help my child.”
“This course transforms the lives of families. The training was professional, efficent and extremely informative.”
“SLT staff are easy to talk to, helpful and knowledgable. They suggest helpful and use-ful strategies.”
Contact us
Children’s Speech & Language Therapy
Birch Unit, Peasley Cross Hospital, Marshalls Cross Road, St Helens WA9 3DE
Telephone: 01744 415 609
Email: mcn-tr
Our patients matter
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust listens and responds to patients and their carers to help improve the services we deliver. If you have any comments, compliments or concers you can speak with a \member of staff or contact our Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS) and Complaints Team.
Phone: 0151 471 2377
Freephone: 0800 328 2941
Email: palsandcomplaints
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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
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Prescot
Merseyside
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Approval date: 1 February 2023