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Communication is vital to our ability to build relationships, interact with others, to learn and to share interests. We are passionate about supporting those children and families we work with to develop their communcation skills to the best that they can be. Each child is an individual and so our aim is to tailor the provision we give to match their strengths and needs.
We recognise that each of the children we work with has a community around them. As part of our service we want to support and develop the skills of their community to ensure the best progress in their speech, language and communication skills. This may involve working with other family members and their place of education. As a result, all therapists at SaltPost are committed to the needs of individual children, and aim to provide a tailored service using innovative approaches where necessary.
All SaltPost therapists are fully qualified, registered with the Health and Care Professions Council and are members of the Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists. They undertake regular continual professional development and have DBS certificates.
Jo qualified as a speech and language therapist in 1992 and has worked across a number of settings since that time, including community clinics, primary and secondary schools, nurseries and charities. She has worked with children with developmental speech and language difficulties and also children with complex needs including Autism, speech and language disorder and selective mutism. Over the past 15 years she has developed a specialist knowledge of working with children with Down syndrome.
Jo began working independently in 2001 and believes that she has one of the best jobs there is. She enjoys working directly with children and young people, and also supporting those around the child to enable them to communicate the best that they can.
Emily qualified as a speech and language therapist in 2006 and since then has gained experience working with children with a diverse range of communication needs in mainstream schools and nurseries in London and the South East. She is passionate about whole school approaches to developing speech and language skills and works closely with school staff, as well as parents, to establish communication friendly environments both at school and at home. Emily has a special interest in signing and is a passionate advocate for the use of sign to support spoken language for people with learning or communication difficulties.
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Emily joined SaltPost in 2018 and provides a speech and language therapy service to a secondary school and two primary schools in West Sussex.
Fiona qualified from Sheffield University with a MMedSci in Human Communication Sciences in 2007 and has since worked as a Speech and Language Therapist in the NHS, a local authority team and more recently within independent practice.
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Fiona has experience working with pre-school age children in community clinics, nursery settings and the home environment. She has also worked in schools supporting children with EHCP’s and training those who support these children on a daily basis. Fiona’s work has covered both primary mainstream and specialist settings, including supporting the development of a base for children with Autism and setting up a service for children with Down Syndrome. Fiona’s experience includes working with children who have Autism, Down Syndrome, speech disorders, developmental language disorder, learning difficulties, selective mutism and dysfluency.Fiona is passionate about working with families and those who work closely with children in order to ensure that all children can reach their full potential.
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After having her 2 children Fiona began to work in independent practice in 2021 and joined SaltPost Limited to work within our specialist team supporting children with Down Syndrome.
After qualifying as a speech and language therapist in 2015, Laura has developed a wealth of experience working across a range of settings including clinics, mainstream and specialist schools and colleges. This has including working directly with children who have a range of communication difficulties as well as training others and setting up new pathways and services, such as a new service for children with complex communication needs and Autism within a school. Laura has worked within an Autism diagnostic assessment team as well as with children with eating and drinking difficulties, having completed additional post-graduate training in the management of Dysphagia in 2021. Laura’s particular area of specialist knowledge and experience is working with children and young people with Down Syndrome and she has a breadth of experiencing working with people with Down Syndrome from infancy to young adulthood. Laura is passionate about supporting families and others working with people with Down Syndrome to understand their specific learning and communication profile, in order that young people are able to fulfil their potential.
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Laura splits her time between independent practice and the NHS and joined the team at SaltPost Limited in 2017, working with children and young people with Down syndrome and other complex communication needs.