It is very worrying to think that your child may be being bullied, or laughed at or isolated because of a communication problem. Your child may lack confidence in talking. You want your child not just to do well in terms of marks for school work, but to be safe, happy, enjoying childhood, fitting in and making friends.
Problems often go together. Many children who have problems learning to read and write have have previously had problems learning to talk.
Being confident about talking is halfway to being able to learn to read and write.
I have been trained as a speech and language therapist and as a linguist. I follow a tradition going back to the 1660s. I am active in research.
My experience is in treating a wide variety of speech and language conditions. I now specialise in the area where I have special training, experience and expertise – problems with the formation of sounds. words and sentences and related aspects of reading and writing, often diagnosed as dyslexia. Or where there is either no speech or language, or the speech is either limited or hard to understand, where the speech is either incomprehensible or unintelligible.
These problems often run in families.
