Integrated Treatment Services are significantly aware of the early developmental needs of pre school children. We are only too aware of the growing evidence showing the need for therapeutic input for pre-school children.
The Hanen Centre suggest that:
“approximately 5-8% of preschool children (i.e. between 1 in 12 and 1 in 20 children) have language delays that continue throughout their school years and into adulthood. These ongoing difficulties with language are associated with difficulty learning to read and write, poorer academic performance, more limited employment opportunities and difficulties with social relationships.”
They also estimate that:
“15-20% of two year olds are delayed in their expressive language development (i.e. they talk late and do not use as many words or sentences or sentences of the same complexity as their peers), but are otherwise developing as expected. Not all of these children outgrow their language delay and up to 60% of them may continue to experience language delays into later childhood and adulthood.”
Our team is highly skilled in using preventative therapy approaches such as; Hanen, Parent Child Interaction and ICAN’s Early Talk to support pre school and nursery children within their educational settings and at home.
We can help you select a preventative approach for your environment and support you identifying children who are either ‘at risk’ or who have identified speech, language and communication needs.
We can work within your setting to set up communication friendly environments to support better communication development. We can support you running pre school groups to give your little ones the best start in their education. We are more than happy to set 1;1 therapy targets and programmes, to help train your support staff to facilitate your children’s needs.
All of our therapists have an MDT understanding of Speech and Language Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Art therapies and Psychological services, so they can identify the need for MDT input throughout their work with your pre school and nursery children.
We recognise the need for you to accurately budget for annual therapy services within your setting. So we make sure that you are clear about the annual therapy cost before providing therapy, and we guarantee these costs will not increase or change throughout the year.
Equally if you want to buy in support along the way, we offer a flexible service to respond to your therapy requests on a needs led basis.
What you can expect from Integrated Treatment Services
- A fast response to your enquiry
- A free consultation with the lead therapist to answer all of your questions with no obligation to go ahead with an appointment
- Assessment of your overall needs to see how your pre school and nursery children can achieve their full learning potential. We will help you understand which of our range of therapies best meets their needs
- A choice of therapists with full profiles so you can decide if they are the right choice of therapist for your pre school or nursery
- A discussion regarding your therapy budget so we can offer the most cost-effective therapy plan. Our rates will always be honest and consistent
- A therapy manager to oversee your therapy provision and provide you with a single point of contact
- A clear therapy plan tailored to meet the timetable of your pre school or nursery
- All of our therapists access the latest clinical approaches and have hands-on experience implementing these with children
- All of our therapists access the latest clinical approaches and have hands-on experience implementing these with children
- The option of online therapy using Skype – feedback to your staff can take place online in the evening, and training sessions can be delivered online to teach you about therapy methods to use with your children
- A clear management plan of the therapists working within your setting – we will ensure that all professional registration records and DBS checks are provided and up to date.
- A management review every term to ensure that you are happy with the level of service your pre school or nursery is receiving
Happy students in a supportive preschool / nursery
We fully expect your students to reach the end of their course of therapy with us, and we won’t discharge them before they are functioning at the levels we would expect for their age. Above all, we aim to ensure that each child ends therapy with our service 100% happier in their skills and abilities, and more able to function in their range of environments.
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