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Ruth Spafford

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Ruth Spafford

Member since: 05/03/2014
Actively taking new clients
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**Limited availability for weekly sessions and block sessions during the summer holidays**

I am a qualified and experienced Independent Speech and Language Therapist with 14 years’ experience working with children across a range of paediatric settings. I specialise in assessing and supporting children with speech, language and communication needs, working closely with families and education staff to provide individualised, strengths-based support.

I have specialist experience in early language development and autism, and can offer comprehensive assessments and tailored therapy programmes for a wide range of needs, including speech sound difficulties, phonological delay, learning disability, emotional literacy, and high-tech augmentative and alternative communication (AAC).

I provide therapy and consultation within home, school and nursery settings, aiming to create supportive, functional communication opportunities within a child’s everyday environment.

Experienced with
  • AAC (augmentative and alternative communication)
  • Articulation and phonology
  • Attention related difficulties (ADD, ADHD)
  • Auditory Processing Disorder
  • Autism spectrum
  • Behavioural difficulties
  • Developmental Language Disorder
  • Early childhood language development
  • Language disorder
  • Learning disability
  • Mainstream Schools
  • Online therapy / Telehealth
  • Play skills
  • Signing
  • Social and emotional difficulties
  • Training for educational settings/schools/SEN staff
Works with
  • Preschool
  • Primary School
  • Secondary school and adolescent
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