There are various different ways in which a child can be referred to NHS SLT services. ‘Many areas have open referral services, so parents can contact the SLT team directly and ask about how they can have their child assessed,’ Jon explains. You can find out whether open referrals operate...
who will then, ideally, work with the Cleft Team to deliver your child’s care. However, cuts to NHS services mean that this isn’t always the case, and in a 2015 survey run by CLAPA, only 55% of parents accessing Speech and Language Therapy said their child got everything they ...
While hearing is not strictly essential to successful language development (see ref.6), overt disturbance of the contributory processes can directly disrupt language development; congenital hearing loss is associated with widespread cognitive deficits in domains including attention, memory and language7. Le...