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Support for children and young people and their families with speech, language, communication and/or eating/drinking needs. The team also works with children with associated difficulties e.g. learning disabilities, ASD, hearing impairment, cleft palate, physical disabilities. Children are seen in clinic, their educational setting or at home for assessment and intervention if they meet the threshold for the specialist SLT service.
- Directorate: Community Health and Wellbeing
- Service Manager Lead: Julie Tregonning - 024 7696 1455
- Service Contact: 024 7696 1455
- Service Category: Community
- Client Age: 0 - 19 years
- Attendance: Monday - Friday
- Referral Criteria: Open Referral. Coventry GP.
- Address: Paybody Building, 2 Stoney Stanton Road, Coventry, CV1 4FS
- Reception hours: 08:30am - 17:00pm
- Reception phone number: 024 7696 1455
About us
Telephone number: 02476 961 453
Referral Criteria: Families and health, education and social care health professional.
To find additional information and advice please access the dedicated website here.
Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) aims to support children and young people to reach their full potential with speech, language and communication. We also support youngsters with feeding and swallowing. We work with other key people involved in children's lives such as families, carers, other health professionals, education and social care colleagues.
Our team base is at the City of Coventry Health Centre and our therapists and assistants work in these Coventry locations:
- Children's wards at University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire
- Nurseries
- Mainstream schools
- Specialist units attached to mainstream schools
- Special schools
- Homes
We work with babies, children and young people who have difficulties with lspeech, language, stammering, voice, feeding and swallowing.
These difficulties could be, but are not always, linked with:
- Mild, moderate or severe learning difficulties
- Physical disabilities
- Hearing impairment
- Cleft palate
- Autism
- Head injury
- Degenerative conditions
All children and young people accepted to the service will be offered an assessment with a Speech and Language Therapist. This could be in a variety of locations, as above. Following assessment, advice will be given and children may receive intervention, as appropriate. To get the most out of intervention we work together with the child, their family, where they go to school and other important people around them.
Intervention can be 'indirect', where advice and activities are suggested. These are carried out by families and other professionals e.g. school staff. The opportunity for updated advice is available. The intervention could also be 'direct' where the child is seen more regularly by a member of the Speech and Language Therapy team with follow up work to be carried out at home, in school or nursery.