This site provides a full range of information on speech and language therapy services for children and young people across NHS Lanarkshire. It also has links with other sites relating to speech, language and communication difficulties.
Who do speech and language therapists work with?
Speech and language therapists (SLTs) in Lanarkshire work with children who have difficulties with:
- Attention and listening
- Understanding
- Talking
- Speech sounds
- Stammering / non-fluency
- Social interaction
- Voice problems
- Eating, drinking and swallowing
What do speech and language therapists do?
Assessment and Intervention
SLTs assess, diagnose, advise and treat children with speech, language, communication and eating and drinking difficulties.
Children seen by an SLT will have an assessment of their speech/language/communication/eating or drinking difficulty.
The SLT will also assess the impact that difficulty is having on the child’s life and may recommend the child receives speech and language therapy intervention or give advice.
Work alongside others
SLTs work in partnership and provide training and support to a range of other agencies and health professionals (e.g. physiotherapists, occupational therapists, dieticians, public health nurses), teachers, early years workers, social workers and the voluntary sector.
Where do we work?
SLTs work in a range of settings across Lanarkshire. These include: health centres, community clinics, hospitals, nurseries, mainstream schools, special educational needs schools and units.