If you contact any of our child therapy teams, you may be encouraged to try some of the ideas from our Children's Therapy Toolkit before you're referred to one of our services. 

If you're concerned about your child’s speech and language development and you're unsure if your child needs to see a speech and language therapist, take a look at the speech and language checklist below. 

Observation Advice/Action

Supporting transition and general classroom advice.

General early development advice.

Unable to sit without causing a disturbance or fiddling. Difficulty maintaining concentration.

Trips and falls or bumps into people and objects. 

Low energy levels, poor stamina or gives up easily. 

Difficulty coordinating both hands together for an activity. 
 

Advice available from:

My child has knee pain.

Advice available from:

I am worried that my child has bendy, clicky or painful joints and, or they fall over easily.
My child has Down's syndrome.

Advice available from:
Physical activity.