How We Can Help

Skyward provides a dedicated service supporting the development of speech, language and communication skills of all children and young people. Skyward therapists work with a wide range of speech, language and communication needs.

We can help with:

• Early language delay
• Developmental language disorder
• Receptive and expressive language impairment
• Early years stammering
• Speech sound delay / impairment /dyspraxia
• Social communication and interaction
• Autism Spectrum Condition
• ADHD
• Gestalt language processing
• Understanding a diagnosis of Autism, ADHD etc in order to understand their unique profile of neurodivergence; to build on their strengths and develop self-advocacy.
• The diagnostic process for Autistic Spectrum Disorder

Skyward therapists meet with children and young people in their own home; their educational or child-care setting or our clinical setting. Skyward therapists work in partnership with parents, school staff and other professionals, to enable a trusting, child-centred, fun approach to intervention – maximising each child/young person’s potential for progress.

Our services include:

Assessment

• Initial assessment / screening / observation
• Diagnosis
• Review sessions after a break in therapy.

Paperwork

• We provide a variety of advice including summaries or detailed reports.
• Pupil profiles.
• Reports to support school transition.
• Education Health Care Plan (EHCP) reports.
• Autism diagnostic reports.
• Speech, language and communication therapy plans.

Intervention

• 1:1 therapy. (Face-to-face or online).
• Group therapy
• Parent and child video interaction – VERVE approach.
• Supporting parents and pre-school/school staff in delivering our own or NHS Speech and Language Therapy advice through provision of modelling, training and coaching.

Liaison

• Attendance at meetings eg school transition meetings, EHCP review meetings etc
• Liaison with other professionals including NHS Speech and Language Therapy Services.