Integrated Treatment Services
Speech and Language Therapists
& Associated Services
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We are pleased to provide appointments with our team of Specialist Therapists across the country. Our team can help you to gain a full understanding of the clients learning, language, physical, psychological, emotional, social, feeding and self help needs. We can provide specialist therapists for all client groups and age groups.
Melanie Carte
Speech and language therapist
About Melanie:
Melanie joined the team at I.T.S in 2009.
Melanie works across a range of client groups, including both children and adults.
She is a highly skilled Pediatric speech and language therapist who qualified from De Montfort University.
She shows a particular interest in the fields of developmental delay/disorder, high level language difficulties and social communication needs, Autistic Spectrum Disorders and clients who are harder to reach.
Melanie also enjoys working with adults with acquired communication difficulties, stroke, head injury and Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) needs.
Melanie builds a fast rapport with her clients, adults and children alike. She works quickly to form a joined up therapy plan, incorporating functional ideas into daily routines.
Melanie is trained in Talk Tools and can offer assessment and therapy to both adults and clients within this field.
Melanie has along standing experience of working within schools and can co-deliver therapy targets within busy settings.
Melanie builds a strong rapport with her clients, making therapy fun and motivating.
Melanie can offer weekend appointments as well as visits within the week.
Melanie also enjoys working with adults with acquired communication difficulties, stroke, head injury and Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) needs.
Melanie builds a fast rapport with her clients, adults and children alike. She works quickly to form a joined up therapy plan, incorporating functional ideas into daily routines.
Melanie is trained in Talk Tools and can offer assessment and therapy to both adults and clients within this field.
Melanie has along standing experience of working within schools and can co-deliver therapy targets within busy settings.
Melanie builds a strong rapport with her clients, making therapy fun and motivating.
Melanie can offer weekend appointments as well as visits within the week.
Melanie's training and clinical approaches:
- Cued Articulation
- Makaton
- Objects of reference and symbol systems
- Picture Exchange Systems (PECS)
- TEACHH
- Workstations
- Sensory processing techniques
- A range of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) devices
- Nuffield dyspraxia programme
- Cog Neuro model
- Social communication programmes such as Talk About, Social Use of Language Programme
- Colourful Semantics
- Narrative therapy
- Interactive story telling
- Psycholinguistic framework
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Talk Tools
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Literacy work
Clinical Group Melanie works with:
Melanie works with children, young adults and adults with
- Autistic spectrum disorders
- Cerebral Palsy
- Down syndrome
- Speech sound delay/disorder
- Language delay/disorder
- Word finding difficulties
- Acquired Brain Injury
- Learning difficulties
- Physical disabilities
- High level language
- Dyspraxia
- Normal non fluency
- Literacy difficulties
- Dysarthria
- Post stroke difficulties
Read Melanie's full CV here
Read about Speech and Language Therapy services here
