Children and young people’s therapies
Our service offers speech and language therapy, occupational therapy and physiotherapy. We support children and young people who have needs in the following areas:
- speech, language and communication needs and feeding and swallowing difficulties
- occupational performance needs which impact upon their daily participation in activities
- difficulties with movement which impact on their physical development, activity and ability to participate in play, learning and socialising.
We see children and young people from birth to age 19 who live in Buckinghamshire or have a Buckinghamshire GP. We offer information, training, advice, assessment, and therapy.
Help and support
We offer a range of support to families, schools and nurseries which can be accessed without a referral to the service.
Children and young people who have high, urgent health or equipment needs require a referral into the service.
Children and young people who have needs which do not meet these criteria are able to access support in the following ways. No referral is needed and this support can be accessed by anyone supporting the child or young person.
We run free live webinars that can be accessed by parents, carers and schools and nurseries which cover a range of topics. These are interactive sessions with the opportunity to ask questions during and after the sessions.
You can access these sessions on a laptop, tablet or phone. You do not need to pre-book or download Microsoft Teams.
Speech and language therapy webinars
We offer virtual advice sessions for parents, carers, schools and nurseries. These are held over the telephone or on Microsoft Teams at a pre-arranged time.
Infant Language Link and Speech Link assessments and interventions are also available in all Key Stage 1 (Reception year to end of Year 2) settings in Buckinghamshire. These run alongside speech and language therapy school advice sessions to tailor advice specifically to individual children.
Speak to your child’s school for more information about this tool.
We provide a range of online information, advice and resources available to help you to support children and young people with a range of needs.
Find out more about additional support services available in Buckinghamshire:
The Buckinghamshire Family Information Service website
Bucks SENDIAS Service – SENDIAS provides confidential, impartial information, advice and support on all matters relating to special educational needs and disability for children and young people.
More information
In February and March 2022, Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) visited Buckinghamshire for a Local Area SEND Inspection. View information and updates on improvements made within the SEND service since the inspection.
Further support
You will find further information about the support we provide on each therapy page:
You can find out how to access the range of support we offer in the Help and Support section above.
For more general enquiries please call us on: 01296 838000 (then select option 4) or email: buc-tr.cyptherapies@nhs.net