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Our Children’s Speech and Language Therapy Service is a specialist service supporting children and young people aged 0 to 19 with speech, language and communication needs. Support is also given to children and young people with eating and drinking disorders.

Young people aged 19 to 25 are also supported with education, health and care plans.

Our team provides assessments, diagnoses and treatments for children and young people with:

• language and communication needs (including developmental language disorder)
• specific difficulties in producing speech sounds
• hearing impairment
• stammering
• autism/social interaction difficulties
• voice disorders
• selective mutism

Throughout the last year, we have been offering virtual appointments via video or telephone with some great success and great feedback.  We will continue to offer some appointments in this way, allowing people to have the support they need in the comfort of their own homes. However, if we feel a face-to-face appointment is needed, we will offer this with the appropriate PPE and safety measures in place.

Who is this aimed at?

This support is aimed at children and young people aged 0 to 19 years

Where

Our service operates from a number of locations including:

Community Clinics

• St Catherine’s Health Centre, Derby Road, Birkenhead, CH42 0LQ
• Victoria Central Health Centre, Mill Lane, Wallasey, CH44 5UF

Children’s Centres

• Brassey Gardens Children’s Centre, 2 Brassey Street, Birkenhead, CH41 8DA
• Bromborough Children’s Centre, Gratrix Road, Wirral, CH62 7BW
• Seacombe Children’s Centre, St Pauls Road, Wallasey, CH44 7AN

Specialist Multi-Disciplinary Team clinics

Feeding Clinic – Arrowe Park Hospital, Arrowe Park Road, Upton, CH49 5PE

Group Training and Therapy

These sessions are currently being offered virtually.

Patient Education sessions:

• Community Centre, St Catherine’s Health Centre, Derby Road, Birkenhead, CH42 0LQ
• Albert Lodge, Victoria Central Health Centre, Mill Lane, Wallasey, CH44 5UF

School clinics

• Mainstream primary and secondary schools
• Primary and secondary special schools

Specialist Bases

• Language Base, Devonshire Park Primary School, Temple Road, Prenton, Birkenhead, CH42 9JX
• Language Base, The Priory CE Primary School, 1 Aberdeen St, Birkenhead, CH41 4HS
• Language Base, New Brighton Primary School, Vaughan Road, Wallasey, CH45 1LH
• Hearing Support Base, Townfield Primary School, Townfield Lane, Birkenhead, CH43 2L

Home visits

Wirral wide

Cost

This support is free

How to get involved

Accessing the service is by referral only and children and young people must be registered with a Wirral GP.

Referrals can come from a range of healthcare professionals including health visitors, allied health professionals, GPs, paediatric consultants, school special educational needs coordinators and nursery managers. 

Healthcare professionals can access electronic referral forms via SystmOne. GPs can use their own single-access referral form.

Referrals from other professionals can be completed and emailed or posted, Visit the How to Access the Service page on the Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust website.

If you have any queries, please phone 0151 514 2334 or email wchc.childrenssaltteam@nhs.net.

Contact details

Email: wchc.childrenssaltteam@nhs.net

Phone: 0151 514 2334

For further information

For more information about Wirral Community NHS Foundation Trust search Wirral Community NHS Foundation Trust in this directory.

Visit the Speech and Language Therapy Service (Children) page on the Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust website

Visit the How to Access the Service page on the Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust website

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