My Mission

At SALT in the garden, my mission is to provide personalised speech therapy services that empower parents, teachers and young people. I believe in strengths based approaches and aim to work with children, or young people and their families to ensure their priorities and preferences are at the core of the assessment, sessions and recommendations.

I was based in my garden in Hampton but now visit children and young people in schools and their homes.

My name is Daisy Childs and I have been working with children with additional needs and/or differences for 19 years. I have an Undergraduate BSc in Psychology and a Postgraduate Diploma in Speech and Language Therapy.

I am passionate about children being able to participate meaningfully in their day both at home and in their education settings. I have over 10 years experience working in specialist schools, centres and mainstream schools.

What I can help with:

I am a qualified speech and language therapist, who specialises in working with children. I have expertise in helping children with a variety of communication needs and differences.

Please contact me if your child/young person has difficulties with:

• Speech sounds: speech is unclear,  other people struggle to understand what your child says.
• Understanding: difficulty making sense of what other people say, may struggle to follow spoken instructions
• Vocabulary: the amount and variety of words your child uses is limited
• Grammar: limited use and understanding of tenses, pronouns, connectives etc.
• Communication: difficulty sharing wants/needs/preferences.
• Self advocacy: Unable to share their  preferences during interactions and lessons (for example what might help).

​​ASSESSMENT 

• Initial Assessment (formal and/or informal assessment with your child/young person, observation, parental/teacher discussion, summary report).
• Annual Review (classroom/home observation, parent/teacher liaison, informal assessment with child/young person, updated report)

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INTERVENTION/SUPPORT

• 1:1 sessions 
• Communication Partner Support  (coaching sessions with teaching staff and /or communication partners to consider adaptations for the classroom , supportive strategies and tools to support a child/young person).
• Bespoke Package (2-5 sessions to target a specific skill or approach, for example, to develop self advocacy skills, working with teenagers to work towards their language or communication goals, working with parents to understand how their child might process language- Gestalt Language Processing).​
• EHCP provision

Additional training also available (please email)

Please be advised that cancellations  made less than 24 hours before a scheduled appointment will be subject to a charge for the full amount of the session.  

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