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The Hillingdon Paediatric Speech and Language Therapy Service is part of the larger Children's Integrated Therapy Service (CITS) in Hillingdon.

Our service is made up of qualified speech and language therapists and experienced speech and language therapist assistants.

We also have a team of administration staff who will answer the phone and respond to emails. They should be able to give you advice and help you. If they don't know the answer to your queries, they will pass it on to the right person.

We are divided into three specialist teams who work in slightly different ways to help children and young people in Hillingdon to talk. To find out more about each of our specialist teams, including what the team does, where the team is based and how to refer to each team click the links below:

The Team be contacted through the CITS advice line on 01895 488200.

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Hillingdon Talks :: Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

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The Hillingdon Paediatric Speech and Language Therapy Service is part of the larger Children's Integrated Therapy Service (CITS) in Hillingdon. Our service is made up of qualified speech and language therapists and experienced speech and language therapist assistants. We also have a team of administration staff who will answer the phone and respond to emails.

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Speech, language and communication in the Foundation Year

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Speech, language and communication in the Foundation Year

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Speech, Language and Communication in the Foundation Year_ A Guide for Parents

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Children with SLCN require an understanding of the wider impact of their needs - this includes their emotional and social development. The social and emotional development of children can be affected significantly by a communication need. Children can experience a range of difficulties from expressing and understanding their own feelings to managing disagreements with friends.
In our interventions groups we look at many friendship scenarios and talk about our many different feelings and emotions to get a better understanding of social and emotional communication.

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Lots of the children I meet simply LOVE Lego! Great news for my Speech and Language Therapy sessions, because it gives me the perfect reason to work on some big communication skills: giving instructions, checking comprehension, negotiating communication breakdowns and so much more.

Lego Therapy is a structured approach to using Lego as a foundation for social communication practice. It’s a format that was first created by neuroscientist, Dr Daniel LeGoff.
In a Lego Therapy session there are four key roles: builder, engineer (sometimes called the architect),  supplier and director. It’s common to work on one Lego construction over several sessions, so the children can rotate their roles each session and practice different skills.
It helps the children in talking, listening, turning taking and working collectively as a group.
It is wonderful to see what the children have built at the end.

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Parents information sheet about speech and Language Link Assessments

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Parents information sheet about speech and Language Link Assessments

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Please use this parent portal to access Speech and Language Link and download resources to use at home.

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Welcome to the Parent Portal, our award-winning speech and language support website for parents, carers and families.

At Speech and Language Link, we understand that supporting your child's language learning, alongside everything else that life demands from you, can be challenging. The Parent Portal provides ideas and advice, information and activities for developing your child's understanding, talking and listening in a way that works for all of your family.

How to use the site? Visit the development tab to help you work out what the next steps are for your child's learning and then go to the stage-appropriate activities section. You don't always need to create a special time for working on listening and talking, use our everyday activities turn many routine tasks into support activities.

Our speech and language therapists have devised support videos for you. Check out the 'Can I have your attention please?' series to help get your child in the right frame of mind for learning and access super fun games and ideas to encourage a range of language skills.

Our activities are designed to fit around normal family life and by implementing some of them every day you can make a real difference to your child's language development.

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Supporting Parents and Carers who support children with SLCN - Speech and Language resources, information and activities

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Hi my name is Mrs. M Malik and I am the Speech and language Communication Needs (SLCN) coordinator.
In my role I assess all children for SLCN in Reception and run intervention groups with children in Reception and all other year groups, that are identified with SLCN.