Assessment
Therapy
Speech & Language
Reading & Spelling
Private Speech Language Therapy
Jane Sheffield (PgDip), BA (Hons) Cert.MRCSLT, HCPC, ASLTIP
I have 20 years of clinical experience as a paediatric Speech Language Therapist specialising in the treatment of children from 0 – 18 years with a wide range of speech, language and communication difficulties.
I have a special interest in supporting children with speech sound disorders (difficulties with articulation and phonology), DLD (Developmental Language Delay) and literacy difficulties (with or without a dyslexia diagnosis).
My experience includes working in the NHS (Highly Specialist Speech Language Therapist) and for charitable trusts but my passion lies in private practice and I have been the owner and clinical director of a highly successful independent practice for over 10 years.
My services are available in Suffolk and South Norfolk, covering areas such as Bury St Edmunds, Cambridge, Norwich, Aldeburgh, Southwold and North Ipswich (plus surrounding villages).
As a trained Sounds-Write practitioner (DYSLEXIA SPELD-FOUNDATION), I am trained in supporting children with reading and spelling difficulties using a highly effective, structured phonics-based literacy programme. I am also a Hanen certified Speech Therapist. As an experienced Speech Therapist, I look forward to helping your child achieve their speech, language and literacy goals.
Jane Sheffield
Speech Language Therapist
Services
Assessment
An assessment usually consists of a thorough discussion, informal assessment (usually through play) and often a formal, standardized assessment. A typical assessment session takes 1 hour to identify your child’s speech and language skills and specific therapy goals. For more complex language/literacy difficulties, a longer session may be required.
£225 Assessment + basic report
45p p/m travel(IP13)
Therapy
Therapy sessions may be offered for your child, depending on the results of the assessment. Specific goals will be targeted in therapy sessions, which are aimed to be fun, age appropriate and tailored to your child’s interests. Sessions are typically 45 minutes in length, depending on the age and attention skills of your child and are usually offered weekly. A home programme is usually recommended, with additional ideas and activities to work on at home.
£85 Therapy Session
Speech & Language
Learning to speak is a very important part of a child’s development. Whilst some children have no difficulties, many children require the expert diagnosis and treatment from a Speech Language Therapist. Speech and Language Therapy supports children with delays/disorders of articulation and phonology, childhood apraxia of speech (CAS), stuttering, receptive language (understanding), expressive language (late talking) or social communication.
Reading & Spelling
Speech and Language Therapists (with additional training in literacy) are well-placed to support children with reading, spelling and writing difficulties since speech, language and literacy skills are intrinsically linked. Jane Sheffield is trained in Sounds-Write which is a highly respected, systematic and explicit structured literacy program to help children achieve their reading and writing potential.
Client Testimonials
It has been a privilege to meet Jane and see her skills at work. After our daughter suffered a brain injury Jane spent over 6 months intensively working with Sally to regain a variety of communication skills including speaking again. We appreciated her gentle manner and incredible patience with Sally and ourselves and the way she included us in the process. She is a very positive person who clearly enjoys using her speech/language therapist skills to help those she works with. I would gladly recommend Jane to anyone who is looking for the services of a talented speech & language therapist.”
Sally
“Thank you so much Jane for your assessment of our young son (4yrs). We were very impressed with the way you managed him and kept him focused and motivated to complete each task you had set for him. Your manner with him was the perfect balance of being friendly to make him feel at ease and comfortable with you and direct so he followed what you needed him to do. He thoroughly enjoyed himself! We were so thrilled when we received your thorough report. This report has been so valuable to us and his Kindy. It has helped us with getting him help going forward, including support from the Ministry of Education. We wouldn’t hesitate to recommend you to any parent who has concerns around their child’s speech and language development.”
Nikki
“Thank you so much for all the help and advice you have given me over the last 6 months. Our son has thoroughly enjoyed every session with you and the confidence and gains he has made with his talking have been amazing. When he first came to see you (Jane) he only had a handful of words and was struggling to make friends. Our son is now talking in longer sentences and even his kindy teachers can not believe the difference. I really appreciated the effort you went to in order to liaise with his kindy and us as parents. I am so pleased to have found you Jane and I have no hesitations in recommending you to everyone!”
