About Core Speech

Core Speech is an Independent Speech and Language Therapy service providing highly individualised, evidence-based assessment and therapy to children and young people across Lancashire.

Core Speech is a neurodiversity affirming practice and strives to ensure that every child is given the support and tools they need to Learn, Grow and Thrive in their lives.

My name is Emma, and I am Core Speech’s owner and qualified Specialist Speech and Language Therapist.

I have vast experience working with infants and children with a wide range of communication and feeding needs, including:

  • Speech and Language Delay

  • Speech Sound Disorder

  • Developmental Verbal Dyspraxia/ Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS)

  • Developmental Language Disorder (DLD)

  • Down Syndrome

  • Cerebral Palsy

  • Autistic Individuals

  • Neurodivergent Individuals

After graduating from Newcastle University in 2016, Emma worked in the National Health Service (NHS) supporting children in their homes, nurseries, mainstream schools, and Special Educational Needs (SEN) environments.

In 2020 Emma embarked on an adventure and moved to Sydney where she had the opportunity to expand her clinical skills and gain experience working in private practice. Here, the idea of Core Speech was born with the aim of bringing the skills and experience Emma had developed to enhance the lives of children and their families in Lancashire.

Emma is registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT), and the Association of Speech and Language Therapists in Independent Practice (ASLTIP). Emma holds an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) clearance. Core Speech is registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).

Our Mission

Core Speech’s mission is to provide high quality services to help children and young people with communication and feeding challenges access the support they need to Learn, Grow and Thrive… every day of their lives.

Our Vision

Core Speech’s vision is to enhance the lives of children and their families through ensuing timely access to holistic care that places the individual child’s strengths and needs at the forefront of decision making.

Emma is committed to Continued Professional Development (CPD) and Core Speech can provide the following accredited treatment approaches:

  • Prompts for Restructuring Oral Phonetic Targets (PROMPT)

  • Nuffield Dyspraxia Program (NDP)

  • Dynamic Temporal and Tactile Cueing (DTTC)

  • Talk Tools Oral Placement Therapy (OPT)

  • Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy

  • Makaton Singing

  • Talking Mats

  • Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)

  • Pragmatic Organisation Dynamic Display (PODD)

  • Sequential Oral Sensory (SOS) Approach to Feeding

  • Gestalt Language Processing/ Natural Language Acquisition

  • Sounds-Write Phonics Program

  • Ausome Konnect

Communication underpins the foundation of Core Speech. We ensure that we are transparent in our communication with families and other agencies we work alongside with respect of our role, fees, and expectations to ensure that you have complete confidence in us.

We recognise that successful therapy requires a team and subsequently we aim to work collaboratively with families, teachers, and other health or education agencies to ensure holistic management and the best outcomes for children and their families.

Why choose Core Speech?

Experienced clinician with expansive continued professional development.

Engaging resources to make therapy sessions fun and motivating.

Holistic person-centred assessment and therapy.

Comprehensive therapy service with communication and feeding support in one place.

Collaborative practice with other services to enhance outcomes.

Accessible mobile service across Lancashire and online.

Core Speech aims to continuously develop our clinical practice and therapy techniques to provide the latest evidence-based interventions to support the communication and feeding needs of our community. We strive to make therapy accessible to everybody who needs it through providing both in-person and Telehealth services.

Take a look at what Core Speech has been up to lately and see our fun, engaging, and personalised therapy sessions for yourself:

It’s the first week of the summer holidays and we have been busy decorating biscuits in many of our therapy sessions this week! This single activity can be used to target a range of goal areas including: 🍪 Modelling new gestalts 🍪 Practi
❓ ❓ WHO ❓ ❓ This week we have been working on understanding and answering ‘Who?’ questions. This Racoon Rumpus game is perfect for this as you roll the dice and find out which outfit your racoon needs to wear. I paired it with a com
Please note that Core Speech is not currently accepting any new referrals. We are privileged to be able to continue to support existing children and their families as they embark on new adventures in nursery and school this coming September. Plea
Did you know @twinklresources has a fantastic Paw Patrol section?! I didn’t… but I do now! I found this Paw Patrol cutting skills activity which I’ve turned into moveable visual scenes to work on: 🐶 Following directions 🐶 De
This Rock ‘n’ Gems toy from @learningresourcesuk is one of my all time favourites 😍 I’ve had it nearly 5 years now which I think is evidence of its quality given something that is hit several times a day 🤣🙈 It’s one of my
🎁 🌟 NEW RESOURCE 🌟 🎁 I have been loving using the Surprise Presents from @learningresourcesuk in my sessions this week as they are fun, motivating, and ideal for working on so many different communication and language goals! Our Surprise Pres
When working on speech sounds, it’s important to pick target words that are meaningful for the child. Last week I was working with a little one who loved cars, which was a perfect opportunity to target ‘stop’ and ‘smash&rsqu
Please note that Core Speech will be closed for the remainder of the week for a short holiday. All emails and calls will be responded to from Monday 9th June onwards. Thank you in advance for your patience.
A fun, hands on activity for practising the ‘p’ sound at the beginning of words. This learner previously had the process of initial consonant deletion and omitted the first sound from the word (e.g. pig said as ‘ig’). They