About the Therapist
Bethan is a highly experienced Speech and Language Therapist and has worked both in Child Development Centres assessing and diagnosing children with speech and language impairments, including Autism, as well as in special schools and nurseries providing therapy for children with speech, language and communication needs.
- Bethan currently works as a Communication and Language Consultant for Achieving for Children, part of the Early Years SEND Inclusion Team for the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead
- Bethan works 3 days per week visiting nurseries within RBWM advising nursery staff on how to best support children with speech, language and communication needs. She holds an excellent reputation within RBWM for the work she does in these settings
- Bethan offers clinic based 1:1 private therapy 1 day per week for children with children with speech and language delay and disorder, children with Autism, and children with a range of special needs including cerebral palsy and Down’s syndrome
- Bethan is able to assess children’s difficulties and provide therapy to help them develop their communication skills
- Bethan is registered with the Health Care Professions Council, the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists and the Association of Speech and Language Therapists in Independent Practice
Bethan is trained in a wide range of therapy techniques and is continually updating her knowledge in order to provide evidence-based therapy. Some of the therapy techniques and principles which guide Bethan’s therapy offer are listed below:
- Knowledge of Sensory Integration, gained through Sensory Integration Education’s lifelong learning programme and from studying Kelly Mahler’s interoception curriculum
- Neuroaffirming practice – Listening to the lived experiences of adults as well as parents caring for children with Autism helps Bethan ensure she continually updates her therapy techniques to take account of practices that are considered to be neuroaffirming
- Hanen, It Takes Two To Talk – A programme for supporting parents to help their child with delayed language development and which provides a foundation for all communication work with children who are late to talk
- Makaton Signing, a signing system that is used to help children with communication difficulties
- Attention Autism and The Curiosity Approach – Bethan has attended training by Gina Davies who devised these therapy approaches and is able to support parents in implementing the ideas from these programmes
- Oro-Facial Myo-Functional Therapy – Bethan has developed an interest in this specialist area of Speech and Language Therapy and is able to assess children with more complex speech sound difficulties related to their head, neck and oro-facial muscle development
- Bethan has attended training to develop her skills in supporting children with motor speech disorders, drawing on the Nuffield Dyspraxia Programme and Dynamic Temporal and Tactile Cueing in order to devise tailored programmes for children with extensive speech sound difficulties