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"The support received by my autistic son from SLT"

About: Lanarkshire Community Services / Adult Speech and Language Therapy

(as a parent/guardian),

We were beginning to despair at my son’s Support from his Speech and Language Therapy in Nursery. I asked for my son to return to SLT in the Community and my husband and I are so grateful to receive support from Leigh. Her input helped us to support our son and working with him on 1-1 ensured he made significant progress. The activities Leigh tried with our son were fun, engaging and cleverly focused on developing all aspects of his communication.

He now attends a school with a language and communication centre, where the SLT are also excellent, so unfortunately no longer gets support from Leigh. However, he regularly asks to visit Leigh and both my husband and I believe she played a major role in our son’s progress.  

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Response from Pauline Downie, Professional Lead for Speech and Language Therapy, Speech & Language Therapy Services, NHS Lanarkshire 6 years ago
Pauline Downie
Professional Lead for Speech and Language Therapy, Speech & Language Therapy Services,
NHS Lanarkshire

Speech and language therapy provides treatment, support and care for children and adults who have difficulties with communication, or with eating, drinking and swallowing.

Submitted on 20/12/2017 at 10:05
Published on Care Opinion at 11:52


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Dear orionwy55

Thank you for taking the time to share your experience of Speech and Language Therapy - I am very pleased to hear of the progress your son made with support from Leigh. I will pass this on to her. It sounds like you had a bit of a rocky start with the Speech and Language Therapy support in nursery and if you wanted to give me more information on this I am available on 01236 794108/4.

I hope that your son continues to get the support he needs form all the staff in the Language and Communication Centre.

Have a lovely Christmas!

Regards

Pauline

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