Lesley is an absolutely brilliant speech and language therapist and we highly recommend her. When Lesley started helping us our 2 ½ year old son could only say one word. After a year of Lesley’s support he has made unbelievable progress, and now has a wide vocabulary of hundreds of words, speaks in full sentences and tells stories. Lesley meets with us twice a month on zoom and guides us through exercises to help our son. She is particularly good at adapting the exercises to our son’s interests, to keep them fun and interesting. Our son says “me love Lesley!” Lesley is a very cheerful and positive person to work with, and her expert knowledge was very reassuring to us and helped us worry less as parents. We cannot overstate the positive impact Lesley’s support has had on our son’s life, enabling him to communicate with his family and at nursery, and he is a much happier boy as a result.
Sian and Lucy, BirminghamParents Lesley provided weekly speech and language therapy for my son over a 12 month period. She quickly established a good rapport with him and he felt comfortable and at ease during his sessions with her. She made the sessions fun and varied them every week. This kept him motivated and he engaged with her for the whole hour - something I never thought was possible! She challenged him at the appropriate level to avoid any tantrums and frustration. The incentive of bubbles at the end of the session worked a treat too! Overall, he came on leaps and bounds and we have Lesley to thank for that. She is an excellent therapist and remained professional and safe throughout a difficult covid period.
Nav, PedmoreParent The care, quality of therapy and the attention our son Derry has received from Lesley since we contacted her eighteen months ago is unrivalled by any other professional we have ever encountered.
Lesley has developed an excellent relationship with Derry which enables her to get the very best from him and has achieved goals previously unreachable.
The imagination, sense of humour and professionalism Lesley possesses make her sessions a joy and the knowledge, support and advice she has given to us as a family make her invaluable.
We cannot recommend her highly enough.
Bryony O'Neill, WolverhamptonParent I have been fortunate enough to know of Lesley's speech therapy services for a few years now as I have patients who have used her skills. I have always had such positive feedback from my patients that when one of my own children was having problems, Lesley was the obvious choice for support. I was not disappointed. She provided not only a thoroughly professional, highly competent and efficient service, but also a caring one. I would not hesitate to recommend her to anyone who needs specialised speech therapy provision.
Dr. Jonathan DarbyParent I was a desperate Mom. I had twin boys who had no intelligible speech at all. They were three and a half and due to start full time school that September.
I felt very lucky to have been given Lesley’s name and number and from the first conversation I felt completely at ease talking to her. I felt that I had found somebody who finally understood.
She came and assessed my two little boys and they were diagnosed with verbal and oral dyspraxia.
She put into a place a programme of speech therapy and came to work with the boys every week.
Within no time at all she had built up a fantastic relationship with them. Ben and Jake never saw it as speech therapy, they were just so excited to see what games she had bought to play that week. All of the sessions were full of fun!
Each week, at the end of the session, she would leave us with a programme to practice daily. I knew that if I had a problem I could always ring her.
Step by step the boys learnt individual sounds and slowly built them into words. It was going to be a long hard road but with Lesley’s help I knew we would get there. When they called me ‘Mommy’ for the first time it was magical.
Through hard work and Lesley’s expertise Ben and Jake now have 100% intelligible speech.
Lesley is a professional, very warm, friendly lady who is brilliant at what she does. I will never be able to say enough thank yous to her for giving my boys the power of speech, something which most of us take for granted.I have and always will recommend Lesley to anyone who is looking for help with their child’s speech and language.
Lisa, KinverParent I would just like to say how happy I am with the excellent professional service provided by Lesley in regards to speech therapy sessions for my daughter Hannah and more recently my son Oliver.
It can be very daunting to find someone who you can trust and have confidence in to work closely with your child. After meeting and speaking with Lesley my concerns were eradicated. I found Lesley to be a truly professional and caring individual with superior standards of work ethic. Advice and support were always available when required.
Therapy sessions were made fun and interesting. The outcome is that my daughter has greatly benefited from these sessions.
I would have no hesitation in recommending Lesley.
Emma, BirminghamParent