Who?

Core Speech is owned by Emma Sharrock, a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist with over 8 years clinical experience supporting children with Speech, Language and Communication Needs (SLCN).

Where?

Core Speech provides face to face assessment and intervention to children, families, and schools across Lancashire in the North West of England, as well as offering Telehealth services throughout the UK.

What?

Core Speech provides assessment, individual and group therapy sessions, and delivers training and education across Lancashire to support children and young people with communication and feeding needs.

Communication Support

Assessment and therapy sessions for children with communication needs.

Feeding Support

Assessment and therapy sessions for children with feeding needs.

Telehealth

Telehealth sessions to provide access to Core Speech across the UK.

Schools

Assessment, therapy sessions, whole cohort screening, and training.

Core Speech has experience in providing assessment and intervention to infants and children with a range of communication and feeding challenges including:

  • Understanding language and what is said to them

  • Finding the right words to express themselves

  • Using sentences to express thoughts and ideas

  • Speaking clearly and being understood by others

  • Speaking fluently

  • Engaging in social activities and interacting with others

  • Understanding phonics and developing reading skills

  • Enjoying mealtimes and social eating experiences

  • Safe eating and drinking

Core Speech is a mobile Speech and Language Therapy Service based from Leyland (Lancashire, North West UK).

We provide mobile Speech and Language Therapy services to ensure that children receive the support they need to learn new skills and thrive in the environments that are important to them.

Visits can be provided to the following locations:

  • Family homes

  • Nurseries

  • Mainstream Schools

  • Special Educational Need (SEN) Settings

Testimonials

  • "Emma's assessment and professional advice has been invaluable to us. I also especially appreciated how thorough the report she provided to us is and her explanations of everything."

    Parent

  • "From initial assessment to where we are now, Emma has shown compassion and acceptance. My child gets so excited to see her now and thinks it's just like having a friend over to play."

    Parent

  • “In such a short period of time Emma has made such a positive difference in my daughter's life and we cannot thank her enough. All the children that Emma works with are very lucky to have her."

    Parent