Speech and Language Therapy in Early Years Setting

We offer bespoke Speech and Language Therapy support for nurseries, preschools and early years settings, tailored to the individual needs of your children, staff team and provision.

Support may include individual or small group intervention, collaborative goal setting, advice around communication-friendly environments and practical strategies to support children’s speech, language and communication development throughout the day.

We place a strong emphasis on partnership working and building staff confidence through both formal and informal training opportunities. This may include modelling strategies within the setting, coaching during everyday routines, workshops, staff discussions and sharing practical activities, games and high-quality resources that can be easily embedded into daily practice.

Our aim is to provide meaningful, sustainable support that empowers staff and helps children thrive within their early years environment.

We are also proud to be part of the Divergent Pathways Collective founded by Kerry Murphy, supporting neurodiversity-affirming, inclusive and child-centred practice across education and therapy services. As part of this we offer training to settings to promote Diverse Pathways in EY settings.

Our Areas of Experience and Specialist Support

Our Therapists have experience working at Specialist Level with pre-school, school-aged children and young people with a wide range of speech, language, communication and neurodevelopmental profiles, including:

Speech, language and communication differences
Late talkers and Developmental Language Disorder (DLD)
Speech sound differences, unclear speech and speech apraxia
Autism and differences in social communication and interaction
Attention and regulation differences, including ADHD/ADD
Developmental Coordination Disorder (Dyspraxia)
Down syndrome
Literacy differences, including Dyslexia
Auditory processing differences
Hearing impairment
Learning disabilities and developmental differences
Global developmental delay and a range of genetic or developmental conditions/syndromes
Stammering/stuttering

We also have experience supporting children and young people through specialist programmes and approaches, including the Johansen Individualised Auditory Stimulation (JIAS) Programme.

We recognise and respect that every child and young person has their own unique strengths, communication style and way of experiencing the world. Our approach is neurodiversity-affirming, child-centred and focused on helping each individual feel understood, supported and confident in their communication.

Areas of Experience, Training and Specialist Approaches

Our Therapists have experience supporting children and young people with a wide range of speech, language, communication and neurodevelopmental profiles within homes, education settings and community environments. Our practice is neurodiversity-affirming, strengths-based and child-centred.

We have experience and training in a range of specialist approaches, programmes and areas of practice, including:

Early Years Speech and Language Therapy
Gestalt Language Processing and Natural Language Acquisition (NLA)
Neurodiversity-affirming practice
Divergent Pathways Collective approaches and collaborative practice
Auditory processing and listening skills
DLD and Late talkers in the Early Years
Total Communication Approaches including hands on support with AAC
Building Early Sentence Therapy (BEST)
Speech, language and literacy development
Linking Language and Literacy approaches
Vocabulary development across key stages
Language support within the classroom environments
Cued Articulation
Selective Mutism support approaches
Memory, attention and thinking skills support
Johansen Individualised Auditory Stimulation (JIAS) Programme

We are committed to ongoing professional development and collaborative working with families, schools and other professionals to ensure support is meaningful, inclusive and tailored to each child or young person’s individual communication profile.

Talks, Workshops & Training

Talks, workshops and training sessions are available for groups of parents and professionals. These can be geared to specific areas of interest.

Costs are available on request.

“It’s such a pleasure to work with you Cathy! Well, more than a pleasure, I don’t know what we would do without you – you have helped so many children – we are all immensely grateful!”

Contacting The Speech Den:

You can contact the service between 8.30am to 5.30pm Monday – Friday

Telephone enquiries: 07876 537213 or 01242 539016

Email enquiries: enquiries@thespeechden.com