If you have spoken with professionals involved with your child and followed the advice provided, but still think that your child needs additional targeted or specialist support, you can ask for support from the speech and language therapy service directly.
Speech and language therapists
Speech and language therapists (SLTs) play a key role in the diagnosis of children with different speech, language and communication needs.
Children and Family Health Devon (CFHD) provide a range of toolkits that you can use with your child before contacting SLT for a referral.
If you decide that you would like to get in touch with a speech therapist you can make a referral to CFHD – you don’t have to ask a GP to do this for you.
There are resources available that can help you to plan and submit an effective referral to speech and language therapy services. Speech and Language UK has developed a series of factsheets that cover the decision-making process for making referrals, what to consider about your child, and how to build a speech, language and communication profile.