Speech & Language Therapy
at Home in London
Private speech therapy at home: HCPC-registered, RCSLT-certified speech and language therapists visiting you at home or online in London and Greater London, and a growing number of areas across Great Britain.
Why Patients Choose Medelit
Healthcare that comes to you — on your schedule, at your location.
Therapy at Home
Receive expert speech and language therapy in the familiar comfort of your home. Our therapists come to you — no travel, no disruption to your routine.
HCPC-Registered Therapists
Every speech therapist is HCPC-registered, and selected for their specialist expertise in paediatric or adult speech and language disorders.
Dedicated Time
No rushing, no time pressure. Our therapists dedicate all necessary time to each session, at a time agreed with you.
Book in 4 Simple Steps
Choose & Compare
Enter your address and compare speech therapists by profile, qualifications and fee
Your Preferred Time
Share your preferred time — your speech therapist offers it, or the closest time they have free
Confirm & Pay
Accept the time your speech therapist proposes and pay securely online
Your Visit
Your speech therapist comes to you at the agreed time and address
Our Speech Therapy Services:
Conditions Our Speech & Language Therapists Treat
Our speech and language therapists treat a wide range of conditions, in children and adults.
Fluency disorders
If a person repeats certain sounds and has trouble saying the complete word, there might be a fluency disorder. Stuttering is a common one: a word part may be repeated (as in wa-wa-wa-want), a single sound held for an abnormally long time (as in caaaaaaandle), or a sound may not come out at all.
Articulation disorders
A wide range of errors when talking: substituting one sound for another (“wed” instead of “red”), omitting sounds (“can” instead of “scan”) or adding sounds (“holiliday” instead of “holiday”). Lisping is also an articulation disorder: “s” and “z” are replaced by “th” (“simple” sounds like “thimple”).
Language disorders
Language disorders make it hard to find the right words and form clear sentences when speaking, and can make it hard to understand what others are saying. A person may struggle to understand others, to put thoughts into words, or both.
Voice disorders
A person might have a voice disorder if people have trouble understanding them: a child may start a sentence loud and clear but end it quiet and mumbling, or sound as if they have a cold or are talking through their nose.
Apraxia (also known as verbal apraxia or dyspraxia) is an oral-motor speech disorder: moving the muscles and structures needed to form speech sounds into words is difficult.
Dyslexia
Difficulty reading and/or writing correctly and fluently. It usually emerges at the beginning of schooling and persists throughout life. Diagnosis involves a complex assessment that excludes other disorders and establishes the exact severity; various strategies can then provide support and help overcome the difficulties.
Learning disabilities
Learning disabilities frequently come with speech and language difficulties, affecting reading comprehension, written expression and oral communication. We provide tailored assessment and intervention for each child’s learning profile, and work alongside families and educational professionals on strategies for home and the classroom — building confidence as well as skills.
Swallowing issues
Swallowing difficulties — dysphagia — can affect children and adults, particularly after a stroke, a neurological condition, surgery, or with ageing; untreated, they can lead to weight loss, dehydration or chest infections. Our specialist therapists assess swallowing safety, recommend posture and texture changes, and design rehabilitation plans so you can eat and drink safely at home.
Post-operative rehabilitation
After surgery to the head, neck or vocal apparatus — including laryngectomy, thyroid surgery or cleft palate repair — targeted therapy helps recover voice, articulation and swallowing. Home sessions reduce travel during recovery and fit exercises into your daily routine, for a smoother, more confident return to everyday communication.
Hearing impairment
Hearing loss often leads to speech and language delays or changes in voice quality; early, consistent therapy makes a significant difference to listening, articulation and confidence. Our therapists work closely with audiologists and adapt each session to your hearing aid or cochlear implant, using evidence-based techniques.
Neurological disorders
Stroke, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, traumatic brain injury and motor neurone disease can affect speech, language, voice and swallowing in highly individual ways. We deliver evidence-based neuro-rehabilitation at home, coordinated with your wider medical team and adjusted as your needs evolve.
Stammering
Stammering (also called stuttering) involves involuntary repetitions, prolongations or blocks when speaking. It can affect children as their speech develops and may continue into adulthood. Our therapists assess its impact on each person and offer approaches from fluency-shaping techniques to cognitive behavioural strategies.
Selective mutism
An anxiety-based condition in which someone who speaks comfortably in some settings stays consistently silent in others, typically at school or with unfamiliar adults. Our therapists work gently and gradually, often starting at home where the child feels safest, using stimulus-fading and positive reinforcement.
What are the causes of Speech Disorders?
To most of us speech might seem effortless, but it is a complex process that needs precise timing and good nerve and muscle control.
Causes: muscles and brain, brain injury, hearing, birth defects
Many muscles, one brain
Muscles of the larynx (which contains the vocal cords), the teeth, tongue and lips and the respiratory system are all coordinated by the brain so that speech can occur correctly — and the ability to understand language and produce speech depends on the brain too.
After brain damage
A person with brain damage, due to an accident, stroke or birth defect, can benefit greatly from speech and language therapy, which “re-educates” the brain to communicate correctly with all the other body parts involved.
Hearing problems
Articulation disorders may also be related to hearing: a loss in hearing can affect a person’s ability to correctly reproduce the sounds they hear.
Physical birth defects
Some physical birth defects can interfere with speaking. A cleft palate — a congenital hole in the roof of the mouth — affects the movement of air through the mouth and nose, and can cause problems with other structures needed for speech, such as the lips, teeth and jaw.
Speech Therapy at Home
Medelit connects adults and families with a Home Speech Therapy service in London and Greater London, and a growing number of areas across Great Britain — enter your postcode to see the professionals available near you.
Our speech therapists visit, for example, Westminster, Camden, Kensington and Chelsea, Islington, Hackney and Wandsworth; the full list of example areas is in the questions below.
For adults and children
Our dedicated and caring private speech therapists work with both adults and children, providing personalised therapy aimed at achieving significant communication goals. We are well known for being extremely attentive to our patients’ needs, and for the highest quality speech-language service.
The comfort of home helps
Especially for younger children, and for elderly people recovering from a stroke, familiar surroundings strengthen the rapport between patient and clinician — so they feel as comfortable as possible while working on something that is often challenging.
At a time that suits your family
Our speech therapists offer flexibility: appointments are arranged around school and work, according to your therapist’s availability.
Online speech therapy
Our speech therapists also provide online speech therapy sessions for patients in areas not covered by our home speech therapy service.
What do Speech Therapists do?
A Speech & Language Therapist helps adults and children struggling with their communication or experiencing swallowing difficulties.
Assessment and therapy: what a speech and language therapist does
When words are hard to say
Some people have trouble saying certain sounds or words. This can happen to children and adults alike, and it can be very frustrating when others do not understand what they are trying to say.
Assessment first
Your speech and language therapist first carries out assessments, using a mix of formal and informal tests, to build an accurate picture of your communication needs.
Therapy planned around you
That picture is then used to plan an effective therapy, based on your individual needs.
Speech Therapy Home Visits
Medelit’s speech therapists have a proven track record of helping people of all ages overcome their speech issues.
Practice between sessions and a regular weekly routine
Practice between sessions
In each session your speech therapist suggests what the patient, or the carer, can do to help throughout the treatment. These everyday exercises and tools, continued between sessions, reinforce improvements and speed up the programme.
A regular weekly routine
Routine improves commitment and results: wherever possible, schedule your home sessions in the same time slot(s) each week. The patient, child or adult, comes to anticipate the sessions and is more receptive to the therapy.
Evaluation and Diagnosis
Your speech therapy home visits begin with an evaluation, done directly at home by one of our registered speech-language therapists — to make it less stressful.
Evaluation, diagnosis, what we treat at home, regular sessions
Understanding your goals
This first interview aims to better understand the patient’s objectives. It may include a consultation with other healthcare professionals.
Diagnosis and treatment plan
Once the evaluation is complete, a diagnosis is made and a treatment plan is developed.
What we treat at home
Articulation delay, language delay, stuttering, learning disabilities, autism, aphasia, reading difficulties, concerns with written work and apraxia.
Regular sessions
The key to improving is regular sessions that reinforce the techniques you need. Our speech therapists can visit as regularly as needed to support the programme.
About our Home Visiting Speech Therapists
Speech therapy at home: a highly effective means to achieve lasting improvements in your speech and language.
Our therapists: HCPC registration, vetting, experience, multidisciplinary team
Registered and insured
All our speech therapists are HCPC-registered, RCSLT-certified and fully insured.
Vetted by our managing doctors
Every therapist is vetted with a full background check, a reference check and an interview with our managing doctors, and selected for the highest levels of experience and qualifications.
NHS and private experience
Our speech therapists are selected for their exceptional levels of experience, gathered in the NHS and/or in private healthcare.
Part of a multidisciplinary team
Our speech and language therapists work together and within a multidisciplinary team, with tight-knit connections to the main clinics and hospitals in London — so they can plan your home speech therapy around your individual needs.
Advantages
- Our speech therapists come to you
- Experienced, HCPC-registered speech therapists
- Visits at the time that suits your family
- A treatment plan tailored to your needs
Your Trusted Speech Therapy Home Visit Service
Our HCPC-Registered and RCSLT-Certified Therapists Provide Expert Speech and Language Therapy, visiting Directly in Your Home.
What Our Patients Say
Very good experience. From the process to an appointment till the visit of the doctor. Even the afterwork with a detailed report. Appointment on time, good treatment. For sure, the right adress for visit of a doctor at home.
The service is impeccable...i was provided with an acupuncturist covering my area immediately and the practitioner was very professional and gave a medical report after each session. Also an invoice was provided which was acceptable by my insurance AXA PPP...
Great service all around. It was easy to arrange the appointment and make payment. Nurse came to my home to administer an infusion. Very friendly and professional nurse who was a pleasure to have in my home.
A very professional medical group. Responded immediately to my mums caring needs. We were desperate for a home visit and they answered promptly and allocated a very thorough doctor for us. Doctor made mum very relaxed because mum is usually a very nervous patient. I will recommend others to use them. Very satisfied with their services. Way to go Medelit. Well done!
The speech therapist who visited me at home was very attentive, patience and positive. She had time to address all of my questions and give me much needed guidance. Very pleased with the service and would highly recommend. Thanks, From a pleased mother.
First visits start from £200. Each speech therapist sets their own fee, and fees vary by specialisation and area, so you can weigh cost alongside expertise. You see the fee for your address before you confirm, and you pay securely online when you accept the proposed time.
A home visit is ideal when you have mobility issues, are caring for a child or elderly relative, are too unwell to travel, need attention outside surgery hours, or simply prefer the privacy and comfort of home.
Visits are prompt, generally within two to three days, subject to the availability of speech therapists at your address. Enter your postcode and preferred time, a therapist proposes a time, and the visit is confirmed when you accept and pay online. For medical emergencies, always call 999 or go to A&E.
You receive a comprehensive report, and your speech therapist can coordinate any follow-up care or additional services you need.
Yes. Medelit speech therapists visit wherever you need them — your home, hotel room, office or workplace. This is particularly valued by business travellers, tourists and companies requiring on-site services.
No referral is needed: you can book directly with a Medelit speech therapist. A referral letter or recent reports from your GP, consultant or hospital team are not required, but they are always helpful: they give your speech and language therapist more background before the first visit.
For example Camden, City of London, Hackney, Hammersmith and Fulham, Hillingdon, Islington, Kensington and Chelsea, Lambeth, Southwark, Tower Hamlets, Wandsworth, Westminster. These are examples, not a guarantee: new areas open as professionals join. Enter your postcode to see who can visit you, or choose online speech therapy from anywhere in the UK.
Yes. After a stroke, a speech and language therapist works on understanding, speaking, reading and writing, and on swallowing if needed, in the familiar setting of your home, with family members involved in the exercises between sessions.
Yes. Swallowing difficulties (dysphagia) after a stroke, with a neurological condition or with ageing are assessed at home, where the therapist can see how you eat and drink every day and advise you and your family on safe swallowing.
Your speech and language therapist starts with an assessment at home, using a mix of formal and informal tests to understand your communication needs and your goals. A diagnosis and a treatment plan follow, and you receive a report afterwards. Sessions then continue as agreed with you.
Speech and language therapists support children with speech sounds, language, stammering, learning and communication difficulties, and a familiar home setting can help younger children feel at ease. Enter your postcode to check the speech therapists available near you, or ask about online speech therapy. Parents and carers are involved in the exercises.
Yes. If a home visit is not available at your address, or you prefer video, you can choose online speech and language therapy from anywhere in the UK. You request a preferred time, a speech therapist proposes one, and you accept and pay online.
Adults and families who prefer therapy at home: for example after a stroke, with a stammer or voice difficulty, or with swallowing, language or learning difficulties. A speech and language therapist assesses what you need first, and you can book directly without a GP referral.
Medelit is a private service: you book a speech and language therapist directly, with no GP referral, and pay the fee online when you accept the proposed time. NHS speech and language therapy is arranged through your GP or local NHS service, and waiting times vary by area.
If your health insurance covers speech and language therapy, you can submit the invoice to your insurer and receive a refund. Check with your insurer what your policy covers before you book.
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