Home Speech Therapy for Children

Home Speech Therapy for Children

If your child is showing signs of a speech disorder, or if you’ve already received a diagnosis and are seeking rehabilitation, Medelit offers specialized, in-home Speech Therapy for Children. This convenient service is readily available across London and Greater London. Experience the advantage of having your child receive personalized, interactive speech therapy in the comfort of your own home, a setting where they feel most at ease. We schedule appointments at times that suit your family’s routine, including late afternoons and weekends. This flexibility means less time spent traveling and more time for your family, reducing the stress of navigating the city. Medelit’s Speech Therapists are not only fully qualified and board-certified but also bring a wealth of experience in dealing with children and young adults of various ages. They specialize in a wide range of services, from treating learning and developmental disorders to addressing speech, communication, and social difficulties. With Medelit, you’re choosing a service that is as effective as it is convenient.

What to Expect

When our therapists visit your home for your child’s first appointment, they will perform both formal and informal assessments tailored to your child’s age and specific needs. This approach helps us accurately determine the areas where your child requires assistance.

After this initial home visit, you can arrange for regular follow-up sessions with the same speech therapist right at your doorstep. This continuity not only ensures convenience for your family but also significantly enhances the effectiveness of the therapy.

Additionally, our therapist will design a customized program for your child, which includes exercises that can be practiced at home between visits. This continuous engagement is crucial for steady progress. Should your family wish to be actively involved in the therapy process, our therapists are ready to equip parents with effective strategies and skills to support and supplement your child’s therapy at home.

We offer attractive discounts for our follow-up package bookings and our speech therapists are available every day, including weekends and bank holidays. You can easily book our services through our online booking system for your convenience. If you’re located outside our home visit coverage area or currently abroad, our Online Speech Therapy Consultations for children offer a convenient solution. Accessible from anywhere, these sessions provide the same high-quality care as face-to-face appointments but with added benefits. Online therapy is not only more cost-effective and flexible, but it also significantly reduces waiting times for appointments and is generally very effective even with smaller children.

What Can We Treat

We assess and manage children with the following conditions:

Main Language Disorders

Articulation Disorders

An articulation disorder is the inability to properly form certain word sounds. A child with this speech disorder may drop, swap, distort, or add word sounds. An example of distorting a word would be saying “thith” instead of “this”.

Resonance Disorders

A resonance disorder occurs when a blockage or obstruction of regular airflow in the nasal or oral cavities alters the vibrations responsible for voice quality. It can also happen if the velopharyngeal valve doesn’t close properly. Resonance disorders are often associated with cleft palate, neurological disorders, and swollen tonsils.

Receptive Disorders

A person with receptive language disorder has trouble understanding and processing what others say. This can cause you to seem uninterested when someone is speaking, have trouble following directions, or have a limited vocabulary. Other language disorders, autism, hearing loss, and a head injury can lead to a receptive language disorder.

Expressive Disorders

Expressive language disorder is difficulty conveying or expressing information. If you have an expressive disorder, you may have trouble forming accurate sentences, such as using incorrect verb tense. It’s associated with developmental impairments, such as Down syndrome and hearing loss. It can also result from head trauma or a medical condition.

Stammering & Fluency Disorders

Stuttering, also known as stammering and dysphemia, is a speech disorder in which the flow of speech is disrupted by involuntary repetitions and prolongations of sounds, syllables, words, or phrases as well as involuntary silent pauses or blocks in which the person who stutters is unable to produce sounds.

Stuttering and cluttering are fluency disorders. A fluency disorder affects the flow, speed, and rhythm of speech. A person with stuttering has trouble getting out a sound and may have speech that is blocked or interrupted, or may repeat part of all of a word. A person with cluttering often speaks very fast and merges words together.

Dysphagia & Swallowing Difficulties

Dyspaghia is otherwise knowsn as any difficulty with swallowing, eating and drinking. This can be caused by a variety of factors in childhood. Our therapists can help identify the cause and help each child to swallow safely and effectively.

Autism Spectrum Disorder

Autism spectrum disorder can affect a child’s speech, social communication skills, their ability to understand others and their ability to express what they are thinking or feeling appropriately. Autism is classed as a spectrum disorder and therefore the severity and diversity of difficulties may differ between children.

Aphasia & Apraxia

These are an acquired communication disorder that affects a person’s ability to speak and understand others. It also often affects a person’s ability to read and write.

Aphasia is when a person has a problem understanding or using words. This can make it hard to speak, read, or write. But apraxia is when someone has a hard time making the movements to speak because of a problem with their muscles.

Cognitive-Communication Disorders

Difficulty communicating because of an injury to the part of the brain that controls your ability to think is referred to as cognitive-communication disorder. It can result in memory issues, problem solving, and difficulty speaking, or listening. It can be caused by biological problems, such abnormal brain development, certain neurological conditions or a brain injury.

Selective Mutism

Selective mutism is a social anxiety disorder that causes children to only talk in certain environments or to certain people. Speech therapy can support children in overcoming these difficulties.

When do children need Speech Therapy?

There are many situations where a child might be in need of a speech therapist. It is very important to pay attention to your child’s language development in order to identify any difficulties on time and ensure targeted interventions to provide the child with the help they need. Sometimes a kid has a medical condition that makes speaking harder. Our therapists are experienced in working with a range of communication impairments including:

• hearing impairment
• articulation disorders
• fluency disorders
• voice disorders
• weak muscles around the mouth
• voice loss or hoarse voice
• literacy
• speech production difficulties
• attention and listening difficulties
• language delay
• breathing disorders
• swallowing disorders

Medelit’s Approach

Medelit Home Visit Speech Therapy for children service allows an early identification of problems and a Tailored intervention with specialist support recommendations. In fact, the first step of speech therapy home visit is the evaluation. This assessment aims to better understanding the child’s needs. Once the evaluation is complete, a diagnosis will be made and a treatment plan will be developed.

Medelit’s approach combines traditional techniques with more interactive techniques, by using a mix of formal and informal tests in order to involve the child as much as possible. Our specialist Speech & Language Therapists ensure that each and every session is not just fun but effective by using a range of games and fun therapy resources. This can be particularly useful in case of an attention deficit disorder.

Effective Speech & Language Therapy also requires parents to support their child’s Speech and Language development at home. For this reason we provide advice on how the family can support and help the therapy.

Also, Speech therapists often work closely with teachers, as well as Psychologists.

About Our Speech Therapists 

All our Speech and Language Therapists are:

• Fully registered
• Board Certified
• Vetted with a full background check, reference check and interview with our managing Doctors
• Selected for their highest levels of experience and qualifications
• Proven track record of helping children of all ages overcome their speech issues.

Advantages:

Sit back and relax. Our Speech Therapists come to you

Engagement of parents with information and specific programmes

Development of skills essential to raise attainment and literacy

Receive treatment with a personalised plan, tailored according to children needs

One trusted Healthcare service for all your needs