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Rhind Speech Therapy services are unique, because the team of exceptional therapists specialise in providing PROMPT Therapy for children with Speech and Language difficulties.
Services are provided in a welcoming, sensory-basest, therapeutic setting.
Therapy is delivered to promote intelligible speech, develop language skills and enhance social interaction, so as to develop your child’s best communication.
Therapy will be bespoke, engaging, and delivered through play, interactive communicative settings, academic, social and daily routines.
The team uses evidence based practice, advanced clinical decision making skills, and together have a wide range of special interest areas and therefore skills.
They meet regularly, keep up to date on current research and therapy approaches, whilst sharing ideas.
They are passionate about delivering the best possible service.
They enjoy what they do, and always have fun.
Deirdre Coleman –
Deirdre is a Consultant Speech Language Therapist. She is a Certified PROMPT clinician and is one of approximately 70 PROMPT instructors globally and one of two in the UK and Ireland.
After graduating from Trinity College, Dublin, she relocated to Vancouver, Canada where she acquired nearly a decade of experience connecting and partnering with individuals, children and their families. Her holistic, individualised approach is essential in helping her clients find their voice and help them achieve their fullest potential. She has experience working in a variety of settings and connecting with various members of her clients’ multidisciplinary teams.
She provides the highest quality assessment and therapy services for those with any communication difficulties and her practice is always rooted in compassion, connection and empathy.
While working with individuals and their families is Deirdre’s passion, she also trains and mentors other clinicians in the PROMPT approach. Her commitment to evidence-based practice led her to engage in research with the PROMPT Institute and the paper she co-authored is one of the most downloaded papers on the Frontiers Medical Journal.
Shona Kelly
From an early age I knew that I wanted to work with children in some capacity and following a placement with a speech therapist while in my final year at school I realised what a varied, challenging and, ultimately, rewarding career being a speech therapist could provide.
My experience as a therapist has confirmed my expectations as I have come to realise how no two days are the same and that each child you meet brings something different and a new challenge to every therapy session.
Since graduating from UCL in 2009, I have experienced several working environments, including the NHS, research at the Institute of Education and the University of Strathclyde and now in independent practice.
My first love was with the pre-school age group working in the clinic and nurseries, but I have always had a specialist interest in motor speech disorders. My current caseload includes a range of clients including some with complex needs and specific motor speech disorders.
MPhil. Speech and Language Therapy. B.Sc (HONS) Speech Sciences. B.Sc (HONS) Physiology. MRCSLT. MASLTIP. HCPC.reg. PROMPT Level 2 Trained.
Nick Harris
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Our mission is to provide the best possible Speech and Language Therapy, so we are always learning, researching and practicing.
If you are interested in joining the team contact us!