SPEECH AND LANGUAGE
Family Hub Early Years Practitioners are skilled in providing key play activities to develop your child’s speech development. Find out more below.
Support for speech and language development
If you are concerned and need more specialist help regarding the development of your child's speech, contact your health visitor, talk to your child’s nursery or school and ask for a referral to Northumberland Speech and Language service.
The following video is a great introduction to the speech and language therapy services available for adults and children in Northumberland and North Tyneside.
Useful links
The following links aim to help explain some of the terminology and the support services available across Northumberland:
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Find out more about Speech and language Therapy services at Northumbria Healthcare
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The National Autistic Society website contains information about autism as well as links to help available for both children and parents, view the website here.
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Afasic is a national charity that helps families affected by speech and language problems - explore their website here. You can also call the Afasic Parents’ Helpline on 0300 666 9410 during opening hours – Monday & Wednesday: 10.30am to 4.00pm
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Contact a Family is a UK charity providing advice, information and support to the parents of all disabled children no matter what their disability or health condition, explore their website here
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ICAN is a national charity that works to help children communicate - explore their website here
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The British Stammering Association website contains information aimed at adults, parents, teenagers and teachers and employers
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Aspraxia Kids is an American website containing information on and about children who suffer from apraxia
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Speech Teach is for parents with children with speech difficulties and provides chat room facilities and materials for working with your child
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The Hanen Centre contains information about training programmes for young children with language delay issues
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Makaton has information about Makaton, a language programme that incorporates signing into a child’s communication to assist with their overall communication development
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There is also a lot of useful information and contacts on the Families Information Service website, which you can view here
