Speech and Language Therapy: Who we help and where we work

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We aim to provide expert and comprehensive care that adds quality to everyday life.

We provide advice, support and interventions for children with:

• attention and listening difficulties
• difficulties with talking and speech sounds
• difficulties with understanding, vocabulary, and putting words together
• developmental language disorder
• a stammer
• autism and social communication difficulties
• developmental delay, physical and learning difficulties
• feeding and swallowing difficulties
• hearing loss
• voice problems
• cleft palate
• selective mutism.

We also provide advice, support and treatments for adults with:

• acute brain injury such as stroke and head injury
• long-term neurological conditions including Parkinson’s disease, motor neuron disease, multiple sclerosis and dementia
• mouth and throat cancer
• voice and upper airway problems affecting throat sensations and coughing
• physical and learning difficulties
• eating, drinking and swallowing difficulties
• a stammer
• autism
• physical and learning difficulties.

We provide care in a variety of locations across the Western Isles including:

• inpatient wards and outpatient clinics
• schools and nurseries
• people’s own homes, day centres and residential care homes.

The Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists has produced a range of factsheets on different conditions showing how speech and language therapy changes lives. View factsheets here.