Helping your child find their voice
Warm, expert speech & language assessment and therapy for children from birth to 11 years.
Prefer to talk it through first? Call the clinic on +44 (0) 7956 328 622.
We can help with
- Speech that is hard to understand
- Late talkers and first words
- Understanding and following instructions
- Building sentences, grammar and vocabulary
- Stammering
- Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS)
Clinic closed until 1 September 2026. All enquiries will be answered on our return. Please email info@thecommunicationclinic.co.uk in the meantime.
Registered and regulated:
More than twenty-five years of helping children communicate
Claire graduated from City University in 2000 with a BSc (Hons) degree in Clinical Communication Sciences. Since then she has worked for ten years in the NHS and over twenty years developing her own independent practice.
Assessment
A 45–60 minute appointment covering a detailed case history, formal and informal assessment, a discussion of what we found and clear advice on what to do next.
Therapy
Sessions of 30–40 minutes built around your child’s needs, always with time set aside for you — so the strategies carry on working at home between appointments.
Working with school
With your permission, we liaise with NHS colleagues, nurseries and schools so that everyone around your child is striving in the same direction.
Getting started is straightforward
1. Get in touch
Call or email to describe what is worrying you. We will tell you honestly whether we are the right clinic to help.
2. Assessment
A full assessment at the clinic, or at school. You leave with findings and practical advice.
3. Therapy
If therapy is right for your child, you will receive face-to-face regular sessions, designed to fit into ordinary family life.
4. Regular review
Progress is reviewed as you go, and support is offered to teachers so skills generalise across settings.
A broad range of communication needs
- First words
- Attention, Listening and concentration
- Unclear speech sounds
- Delayed / disordered speech
- Verbal Apraxia of speech
- Oro-motor difficulties (weakness of tongue, lips and palate)
- Developmental Language Disorder (DLD)
- Understanding spoken instructions
- Putting words into sentences
- Using grammar accurately
- Memory
- Difficulties understanding meaning relationships (word finding difficulties) and vocabulary development
- Sequencing sentences and narrative
- Conceptual language, Inference and deduction
- Teletherapy
What families say
“I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank you for all your support with A, we are blown away with the difference in him since we first spoke.”
“Thank you for all your efforts and your lovely manner with F, he really loved your sessions and he has made progress beyond what I dared to hope for when we first came to you.”
“R made excellent progress in such a short space of time. The tools and techniques Claire used were invaluable. The sessions were made fun but effective. Claire had a great rapport and even when things got tricky, knew how to handle the session. I am very grateful.”
Quotations are used with permission and anonymised to protect each child’s privacy.
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Worried about your child’s speech?
Early support makes a real difference.