Laura Easton, Speech and Language Therapist

I qualified as a speech and language therapist from University College London in 1999 with a BSc (Hons), and I am a registered member of the Health and Care Professions Council, the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists, and the Association of Speech and Language Therapists in Independent Practice.

Since 1999 I have worked with both the National Health Service and schools, providing assessment, diagnosis and therapy to children up to 16 years old. I have worked with children in clinics, mainstream nurseries, infant, junior and secondary schools, and schools for children with moderate learning difficulties.

I have experience providing therapy for articulation and phonology difficulties, language delay and disorder, and I specialise in helping children who stammer.

Professional training

Specific professional training I have undertaken includes:

• Hanen It Takes Two to Talk, a parent and child interaction programme.
• Makaton, a signing system.
• Derbyshire Language Scheme, an early language assessment and intervention.
• Lidcombe, a stammering intervention approach.
• Training by the Michael Palin Centre, a specialist centre in stammering.
• Solution Focused Brief Therapy, a counselling therapy.
• Selective Mutism, assessment and intervention.