a bit about me
My name is Fritha Fayers, I am a highly specialist children’s Speech and Language Therapist with over 10 years of clinical experience.
I have worked within the NHS and local statutory providers as well the independent sector, helping to support hundreds of children with speech, language and communication difficulties and their families. I have also provided assessment, therapy and training to schools and education professionals across Norfolk and beyond.
I have worked closely with a range of child development experts including Consultant Paediatricians, Educational Psychologists, Specialist Teachers and Occupational Therapists and have been a member of the Child and Educational Psychology Practice and more recently, Senior Neurodevelopmental Specialist at the Newberry Clinic in Gorleston.
I am also delighted to work in partnership with the wonderful people at Open Arms Support Service, a fantastic Occupational Therapy practice based in Norwich.
As well as completing post-graduate study focused on my above areas of clinical specialism, I am also:
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A trained Elklan Tutor
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Trained to administer the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS) assessment
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Signalong trained
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PECS trained
If you’re at all worried about your child’s speech, language or communication development or you think there’s anything I could help you with in your school or nursery, please do not hesitate to contact me.
I love working with children, their families and other professionals and I really value spending time to get to know and understand each child as an individual. I use this insight, in combination with up-to-date evidence based assessments and therapeutic approaches, to provide truly individualised, child-centred intervention programmes with practical advice and resources that really work.
I have a special clinical interest and expertise in the following:
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Phonological (speech sound) delay and disorder
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Developmental Language Disorder
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Autism Spectrum Disorder
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Adverse childhood experiences and trauma
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Social, emotional and behavioural difficulties
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Selective Mutism
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Stammering