The NHS is using a WhatsApp-based therapy for the first time to help children born in lockdown who have been left unable to talk properly.. The Can-Do programme is delivered through the free ...

Children struggling with their speech and language are at greater risk of developing mental health problems like anxiety and ...

Grant spoke to a teacher last month who confirmed that Callum had never been referred for speech and language therapy since ...

More than 12,000 children are enduring “dangerous” waits of more than a year for NHS help, amid warnings that the lockdown generation is being left behind in efforts to clear backlogs.. Those ...

More than 75,000 children in England are waiting for speech and language therapy – an all-time high, figures show. NHS England data from May shows 97,824 people in the community waiting for help ...

The therapy sessions for children stopped almost completely in March 2020 and did not start again until September 2020. Betsi Cadwaladr health board, which runs the NHS in North Wales has ...

The therapy sessions for children stopped almost completely in March 2020 and did not start again until September 2020. Betsi Cadwaladr health board, which runs the NHS in North Wales has ...

Some children in Somerset have faced waits of up to seven months for face-to-face speech therapy. Alice Fitzsimons lives in Taunton and says she waited for months for a face-to-face appointment ...

Margaret Hodge's pledge to train more speech and language therapists could be derailed by changes to pay structures in the National Health Service, experts have claimed. In the House of Commons last ...

The survey found 17% of speech and language therapy posts in England are vacant (when both the NHS and independent sector vacancies are taken into account). When it comes to NHS posts alone, 16% ...

A mum from Tiverton says she fears for the future of her non-verbal toddler who is on a two-year-long waiting list for speech therapy.. Lucy Merryman-Scott’s two-year-old son Hamish can only ...

Inclusion isn’t just about the children. From the outset, Ascendia worked to bring speech therapists into the process of designing and deploying Timlogo. Co-founder Alex Malureanu highlights how ...