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Lenia Tavares

Speech and Language Therapist in Colchester

Member of ASLTIP since 2025

Actively taking new clients Colchester CO5 French Portuguese
29 Areas of experience
3 Age groups
3 Languages spoken

Specialist speech and language support for children, including those with complex communication needs, speech difficulties, autism-related communication differences and multilingual language development.

I have extensive experience supporting children with diverse communication profiles. My areas of expertise include speech sound disorders, including Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS), language delay and difficulties, Gestalt Language Processing (GLP) and Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC). I have a particular interest in supporting non-speaking and minimally speaking children.

Alongside my independent practice, I work within the NHS as part of a multidisciplinary autism diagnostic assessment team. I hold three Master’s degrees specialising in language teaching, speech and language therapy, and childhood language and communication disorders.

My approach is neurodiversity-affirming, individualised and family-centred, combining specialist assessment and targeted intervention with practical strategies that support meaningful communication in everyday life.

I offer assessments, therapy and parent coaching in English, Portuguese and French, alongside specialist reports for Education (EHCPs).

Who does Lenia work with?

Preschool Primary School Secondary school and adolescent

Sessions available in English, French and Portuguese.

What can Lenia help with?

  • AAC (augmentative and alternative communication)
  • Articulation and phonology
  • Attention related difficulties (ADD, ADHD)
  • Auditory Processing Disorder
  • Autism spectrum
  • Behavioural difficulties
  • Bilingualism
  • Capacity assessment support
  • Cerebral palsy
  • Cochlear implant
  • Developmental Language Disorder
  • Down's syndrome
  • Dyspraxia/Childhood Apraxia of speech
  • Early childhood language development
  • Language disorder
  • Learning disability
  • Mainstream Schools
  • Motor speech disorders
  • Online therapy / Telehealth
  • Play skills
  • Prevention
  • Selective mutism
  • Sensory integration difficulties
  • Signing
  • Social and emotional difficulties
  • Stammering
  • Training
  • Training for educational settings/schools/SEN staff
  • Tribunal assessments or reports

Where and how?

In person around Colchester (CO5)

Online therapy available UK-wide

What happens next?

  1. 1 Send your enquiry It goes straight to Lenia's practice inbox.
  2. 2 Talk through what you need Ask questions and find out how the therapist may be able to help.
  3. 3 Begin support Agree the next step and move forward when you are ready.
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