COMMUNICATE : Independent Speech & Language Therapy

04/12/2025

In today’s ’Meet the Team’, we are proud to introduce Lauren!

With extensive experience, Lauren is one of our Specialist Therapists with a passion for raising awareness of, and supporting individuals with DLD - Developmental Language Disorder.

She loves a Coffee, and her favourite snack is a packet of crisps!

Outside of her work with Communicate, Lauren is also a Registered Intermediary, which is a role specialising in communication working for the Ministry Of Justice.

Lauren loves travel, and if you are lucky enough to work with her, don’t forget to ask about her next adventure!

03/12/2025

Hannah was super excited to be hosting a stand at the virtual schools conference today!

Show casing some of what our lovely team get up to, she also had some of her books, to help in promoting accessible resources for individuals with SLCN.

Did you spot our stand there? 🤩

02/12/2025

Take a little sneak peek into one of Hannah’s Therapy sessions!

We often work with little ones with high energy, and incorporating movement and some subtle ‘heavy work’ into our therapy sessions can really help to offer some Proprioceptive sensory feedback, which supports children to regulate their nervous system and focus or channel their attention.

Research links movement with new neuronal networks, and these new pathways can really help to support children to consolidate new skills - by linking speech sounds with movement, we are helping to make these skills more concrete.

They are also more memorable, as the child is having FUN!

As far as they are concerned? …they had an awesome time at Hannah’s obstacle course… there was so much focus on functional target words, they didn’t even realise they were also working on their speech sounds!

Do you incorporate movement and play into your therapy sessions?
Don’t forget to save and share this video with someone who’d love this low prep therapy idea 💡

26/11/2025

Biscuit Bear has been zip lining! 😱

All Saints Church in Kesgrave, were kind enough to include him on some adventures this year - Thank you to Laura for taking him along!

He had a great time, and even managed to squeeze some opportunities for Speech and Language development in too!

He really enjoyed making predictions and thinking about ‘what might happen next?’.
Looking back at the photos to see what he did ‘before’ he got to the top, and how he felt was great fun! It was really helpful when adults helped to label those feelings with words like ‘nervous’, and ‘excited’. ‘After’ he got to the bottom, he felt ‘relieved!’ and ‘brave’!

The photos were great for practising sequencing what happened ‘First, Next, Last’, and we loved telling and showing other people what we got up to. It really helped to recap some of our past tense verbs like ‘climbed, pulled, sat’.

We can’t wait to see what he gets up to next! 👀

19/11/2025

It’s time to ‘Meet the team’!
Today we are introducing our lovely Laura 🤩

Laura is another of our Specialist Therapists who LOVES a craft activity! She is very talented at making crochet animals, and outside of work enjoys lots of activities with her children. Laura is a parent volunteer at Cubs, and also leads the children’s work at her local church 🤩

In her work with Communicate, Laura has a special interest in supporting children with early communication skills, and those with complex needs.

‘Laura’ can sometimes be tricky for little ones to say! So you might find your child talking about a ‘Lorla, Rora, or Flora’ … rest assured Laura responds to all the above! 😆💚

16/11/2025

The results are in for another head to head of Nursery Rhymes! Teagan v Meg!

11/11/2025

To celebrate World Nursery Rhyme week, Ellie and Zoe quizzed some of the team on their nursery rhyme knowledge! Our first head to head is Emma v Hannah! Swipe through to watch them and see the results!

11/11/2025

Today, we remember.

Here is a video of a Remembrance Day Poem, supported with Makaton signing, from our lovely Makaton trainer and Specialist Speech and Language Therapist, Bethan.

Our Specialist SLT and certified Makaton trainer, signs alongside this lovely Remembrance Day Poem, in memory of all those who served and fell for us.

10/11/2025

A big ‘Congratulations’ and ‘Thank you!’ to our winner of the first Autumn half term’s Communicate Excellence Award - Aggie Monk, from Raleigh Infant & Admirals Academies

Aggie is a repeat nominee from our lovely Therapist, Meg - a testament to her ongoing support and dedication!

Here are some of the lovely things Meg said in her nomination:

‘Over the past year, Aggie has been carrying out the Speech and Language follow-up work with incredible dedication and care. She is wonderfully flexible and endlessly patient, and the children absolutely love their sessions with her. Aggie is such a joy to work with—her positivity, professionalism, and genuine passion makes such a difference every day!’ 💚

We are so grateful to work with such brilliant individuals in our daily practise. It really does make the world of difference not only to the individuals we support, but also across their settings.

Thank you Aggie, we appreciate all you do 💚