Speech and Language Therapy

in Secondary Schools

Our service mirrors the graduated approach, providing a variety of strategies encompassing both preventive and intervention measures at universal, targeted, and specialist levels. We work with both students and staff at school so there is a far-reaching benefit to school and students alike. We can train staff to develop knowledge and skills of speech, language and communication needs, so that they can create a communication supportive classroom to enable students to access the curriculum more easily. We can train staff in evidence-based interventions so that groups of children can benefit from regular support, and we can work directly with individual students who have very specific or specialist needs. We understand that no two schools are the same or have the same requirements, therefore we offer a broad range of services which are tailored to meet your individual needs and budget.

We support students with all types of Speech, Language and Communication Needs (SLCN), including Developmental Language Disorder.  Children with SLCN may experience differences with their – Attention & Listening skills – Speech sounds (pronunciation) -- Fluency of speaking – Understanding of words – Vocabulary learning – Putting words together into sentences – Using language for problem solving and reasoning – Social communication.  

Our Approach

Our Services

  • Communication is everyone’s business! Universal provision aims to embed best practice across the whole setting to support communication and learning for all children.  

    Here’s how it could look:  

    • Staff development  

    • Bespoke whole school training  

    • Webinar training   

    • Word Aware  

    • Creating a communication friendly environment  

    • Universal screening tools  

    • Classroom environmental audits  

    • Parent workshops  

  • We can skill up school staff to become champions of communication in your setting, identifying and providing intervention for a wide number of students with SLCN.  

    Here’s how it could look:  

    • Establishing roles of Communication Champions (CCs) to advocate for SLCN  

    • Bespoke training to upskill staff as CCs  

    • Supporting CCs to deliver and oversee communication support across school 

    • Monitoring the quality of these interventions while measuring progress and impact.  

    • Communication Champions to support a wide number of students through screening of SLCN and targeted interventions, including: 

    1. Language for Behaviour and Emotions  

    2. Talk for Work  

    3. TalkBoost  

    4. Lego Therapy 

    5. Bespoke language interventions

  • Specialist assessment and intervention can be provided with those students who have a specific or specialist communication need, including those who have an EHCP.  

    Here’s how it could look:  

    • Working to support students with specialist SLCN 

    • Specialist assessment of student’s communication 

    • Providing advice to teaching staff to support a student’s SLCN 

    • Direct therapy sessions – individual or group, including… 

    1. Stammer 

    2. Developmental Language Disorder 

    3. Building skills for Social Communication  

    4. Vocabulary  

    5. Using language for reasoning and emotional regulation 

    • Contribution to EHC applications and reviews 

    • Specific information and advice to parents  

We would love to hear from you.

Contact WMSLT today for an informal chat about how we can help you!

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