Speech & Language Therapy in Sevenoaks

December 1990
Speech and Language Therapist
National Hospitals College of Speech Sciences, London
Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
Membership number: 08952 Registration number: 02881
HPHC number: SL07176
June 1991
R.S.A. Diploma in Specific Learning Difficulties Helen Arkell Dyslexia Centre, Frensham, Farnham, Surrey AMBDA recognition
1993
Instrumental Enrichment Levels I - III Helen Arkell Dyslexia Centre
Nov 1997-May 1998
Dynamic Assessment Part I (Basic) & Part II (Advanced) Binoh Centre, London
Sept 2008
Tactile Instrumental Enrichment

May 1998 to present date: Private Speech and Language Therapy Practice

Speech, language, literacy and thinking skills with home/ school programmes, individual / group therapy and training. Now in the sixteenth year of independent practice.
April 2004 to April 2006: Hextable Language Unit

Part-time with years 7 to 13 as the Speech and Language therapist. Successfully managing the caseload, working as part of a team at the language unit.
January 2003 to 2004: Dorton House School
Grade 2 – Specialist Speech and Language Therapist (spine point 33)

Part-time work as one of three speech and language therapists and part of a large therapy team working with the secondary level students and college students with visual impairments and additional difficulties. Close work alongside Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists, educational, living skills staff and parents.
May 2000 to maternity leave October 2001: Dorton House School
Grade 2 – Speech and Language Therapist (spine point 32)
December 1994 - May 2000
Thames Gateway Healthcare (NHS) Trust
Grade 2 – Specialist Speech and Language Therapist (spine points 29-31)

Full time at both a primary language unit (Warren Wood, Rochester) and a language provision for children with specific language impairments (Fairview School, Rainham). Then on a part-time basis at the language provision, followed by another transfer of base (York Road Language Unit, Dartford).