Communication is a hugely important part of our everyday lives and we believe that everybody has the right to communicate even when you need some help to find different and new ways to use your voice. Here at Speakology, we have brought together our collective experience of over fifteen years, specialising in an extensive variety of areas to provide life-changing treatment, support and care for children and adults who have difficulties with communication, or with eating, drinking and swallowing.
The cause of issues with our ability to speak and swallow are sometimes hard to pin point and incredibly far reaching, for example over 90% of people with learning disabilities subsequently have communication problems. We understand that this can have an immense impact on peoples’ lives that no one should have to endure. Speech and Language Therapy offers a life altering set of treatments, where we work on a one-to-one basis to assess the specific needs of the patient, which, while sometimes small, are never insignificant.
Ultimately, by working together, we create a tailored treatment programme to help you achieve the best outcome possible, through which we are there every step of the way.
We value speaking as much as doing and here is one of our case studies to give you a taste of the types of treatment and support we provide:
People with dementia often experience various problems with eating and drinking. Difficulties can include holding food in the mouth, continuous chewing, and leaving harder to chew foods on the plate. This can lead to weight loss, malnutrition and dehydration. Specialist assessment and advice from Speakology can increase food intake and improve the meal-time experience for the person with dementia.
Obviously we are big fans of SLT and the results it achieves, but you don’t have to take our word for it, here are some people who have been through it and who’s lives have been changed for the better:
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