Children’s Speech and Language Therapy
Provided by:
Bromley Healthcare
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For all children (universal)
For children with additional needs:
- For some children (targeted)
- For a few children (specialist)
A referral is required.
For all children (universal)
For children with additional needs:
- For some children (targeted)
- For a few children (specialist)
A referral is required.
What they provide for pre-school aged children
Ages: birth to 4
For all children (universal)
Help for families and professionals
- This website
- Assessment or advice through monthly drop in clinic – accessed via health visitor signposting at Blenheim Children and Family Centre and Community Vision Children and Family Centre
- Advice leaflets and links to useful sites
Help for professionals
- Support to special needs playgroup to run communication groups
- Termly training or team meeting with SEND Advisory and Teaching Teams as and when required
Contact Care Coordination Centre for queries in relation to Speech and Language Therapy which is open from 9am-5pm Monday to Friday – email bromh.cccpod5refs@nhs.net or call 0300 330 5777
For some children (targeted)
Children will be offered appropriate elements from the offer below that meet their identified needs:
- Clinic Assessment (Within 11 weeks of receipt of referral)
- ‘Talk stars’ parent- child interaction groups
- One-to-one follow up clinic appointment according to need
A referral is needed to access these services.
For a few children (specialist)
Children will be offered appropriate elements from the offer below that meet their identified needs:
- Detailed Education, Health and Care needs assessment
- Contribution to Education, Health and Care plan annual reviews, as required
- Dysphagia management programme which are tailored to the needs of child
- Multiagency meetings, assessment and liaison with other professionals
- 1:1 session in pre-school or clinic with early years seen if required
- Specialist assessment and advice from specialist SLT’s (deafness, speech and language disorder, augmentative and alternative communication, social communication, complex needs and dysphagia)
- Complex Communication and Diagnostic Service clinic
- Group intervention with education – Twinkles, phyzzycoms
- Speech and Language provision as per Education, Health and Care plan for Bromley resident children
A referral is needed to access these services.
What they provide for school aged children
Ages: 5 to 18
For all children (universal)
Help for families and professionals
- This website
- Assessment or advice through monthly drop in clinic – accessed via health visitor signposting at Blenheim Children and Family Centre and Community Vision Children and Family Centre
- Advice leaflets and links to useful sites
Help for professionals
- Termly training or team meeting with SEND Advisory and Teaching Teams as and when required
Contact Care Coordination Centre for queries in relation to Speech and Language Therapy which is open from 9am-5pm Monday to Friday – email bromh.cccpod5refs@nhs.net or call 0300 330 5777
For some children (targeted)
Children will be offered appropriate elements from the offer below that meet their identified needs:
- Clinic Assessment (within 11 weeks of receipt of referral) – for children who have safeguarding needs or health related communication needs, assessment will be within 8 weeks of receipt of referral
- Group therapy for children and young people who stammer
- One-to-one follow up clinic appointment for health related Speech, Language and Communication Need (SLCN), home educated and safeguarding
- Speech and Language Therapy attends termly SENCO forum for Questions and Answers
A referral is needed to access these services.
For a few children (specialist)
Children will be offered appropriate elements from the offer below that meet their identified needs:
- Detailed Education, Health and Care needs assessment
- Contribution to Education, Health and Care plan annual reviews, as required
- Joint working with other therapies e.g. Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy service as required
- On-site SLT Riverside and Marjorie McClure special schools for dysphagia- term time only
- SLT provision as per Education, Health and Care plan in mainstream Bromley schools
- Multiagency meetings, assessment and liaison with other professionals, including safeguarding meetings and tribunals
- 1:1 session assessment and review
- Specialist assessment and advice where required for Education, Health and Care needs assessment, those with Education, Health and Care plans, health related SLCN, home educated and safeguarding
- Complex Communication Diagnostic Service clinic up to 7/8 years of age
- Dysphagia service
A referral is needed to access these services.
How to make a referral
Referrals must be made via the Care Coordination Centre (CCC):
- Email bromh.cccpod5refs@nhs.net
- Call 0300 330 5777
Professionals can also make a referral via the Single Point of Entry form on EMIS.
The referral triaged by SLT within 2 working days of receipt. Referrals are discharged with advice or support, signposted or referred to other services, or provided Targeted and/or Specialist offer.
Following assessment, a child may be given advice and discharged or remain on caseload for targeted and/or specialist support depending on complexity of need.
All children will be discharged to a universal level when no further new advice or assessment is needed.
Intervention will be offered according to clinical need.
Children can move between targeted and specialist provision depending on need, as assessed by the SLT.
Contact details
Call
0300 330 5777