Who we are
Anna Chimenti set up All Join In Speech and Language Therapy after 15 years working in the NHS Speech and Language Therapy Service for Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire, including time as a team leader for the Bristol Early Years Team. Anna’s associates also offer assessments and therapy sessions for All Join In Speech and Language Therapy alongside their ongoing NHS Speech and Language Therapy positions.
Anna Chimenti
Anna qualified from City University London in 2009 with a Postgraduate Diploma in Speech and Language Therapy. She has worked as a Speech and Language Therapist in Bristol since 2010. She is a member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT) and Association of Speech and Language Therapists in Independent Practice (ASLTIP). She is also registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
She has extensive experience working with children needing support with speech sounds, language skills and social communication in nurseries, primary schools and early years clinics, as well as devising and delivering parent and staff training covering a range of topics. Anna's particular area of interest is speech, language and social communication in the early years.
Anna is trained and licensed to deliver Hanen’s It Takes Two To Talk, Learning Language and Loving It, More Than Words and Teacher Talk programmes. She uses principles from these programmes in all of her early years language and social communication intervention work. She has specialist training in working with children with Down’s Syndrome, provided by Down’s Syndrome Educational International, and accesses additional supervision specific to this area.
She is also trained in the SCERTS programme for social communication and interaction as well as in Gestalt Language Processing, Makaton signing, Attention Autism and using Core/Communication Boards. As well as 1:1 therapy sessions, she can offer training to nursery or school staff.
She is experienced in treating language and speech sound disorders and completes regular training to keep up to date with emerging research. For example she has recently completed Shape Coding refresher training.
Anna also has lots of experience working with bilingual and multilingual children and families and has an undergraduate degree in French, German & Russian.
Anna believes in child-led intervention for early years language and social communication and using parent coaching methods alongside direct therapy approaches to provide effective and evidence-based therapy. She also believes that all therapy should be neurodiversity affirming and has lived experienced of parenting neurodivergent children.
She has an enhanced DBS certificate and up to date safeguarding training. Anna spends her spare time walking, reading and doing puzzles with her children!
Associate Speech and Language Therapists
Claire Williamson
Claire is a Speech and Language Therapist who has been supporting children and families since 2014. She qualified from University College London (UCL) with an MSc in Speech and Language Therapy and is a member of both the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT) and the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
With over 11 years of experience working in the NHS, Claire has worked with children from assessment to therapy across clinics, nurseries and schools to develop their speech, language, and social communication skills. She is trained in a variety of approaches, including Hanen’s Learning Language and Loving It and Teacher Talk, the SCERTS framework for autism and social communication, Makaton, Palin PCI for children who stammer, Attention Autism, and Core Board communication strategies. She also has a keen interest in working with voice disorders for both children and adults, from assessment to treatment.
As a parent of two, Claire truly believes in the power of early support and intervention and enjoys working closely with families to help children reach their full potential.
Eleanor Jones
Eleanor qualified from the University of Reading in 2009 with an MSc in Speech & Language Therapy and has been working as a Speech & Language Therapist in the NHS for the past 15 years. Eleanor is a member of the RCSLT and the HCPC.
Eleanor has a wealth of experience working with pre-school aged children with a range of speech and language difficulties, in both clinics and/or nursery settings. Her specialist areas of interest and expertise are working with pre-school children with developmental conditions such as Autism and Down’s Syndrome, as well as children with language difficulties resulting from hearing-loss/deafness.
Eleanor has been trained in a variety of therapeutic approaches including: Makaton signing; ‘Attention Autism’; Core Communication Boards and SCERTS and applies these throughout her day-to-day work with the families that she supports. Eleanor has also had a lot of experience delivering training to both parents and nursery staff in supportive communication strategies to use at home & in nursery with their child.
Eleanor has 2 children herself and recognises the importance of not only making sure that therapy is fun, but also ensuring that therapy is achievable for families and easily fits into/around family-life.
Holley James
Holley graduated from Cardiff Metropolitan University with a First class BSC(Hons) in Speech and Language Therapy in 2013. Prior to this, she completed a BSc(Hons) Psychology degree and worked with adults with Learning disabilities.
She has over ten years experience as a Speech and Language Therapist, working with children and young people aged 2 to 18 years in the NHS. This has included working in both mainstream and specialist education provisions, offering speech and language assessment and intervention, supporting families and offering training.
Holley has worked with Autistic children and young people throughout her career, and is passionate about the positives of neurodiversity and taking a person-centered approach. She also has lived experience with neurodivergent family members. Holley particularly enjoys working with older children and teens, taking a positive, collaborative approach to support them to develop the communication skills that are important to them and useful for everyday life.
Holley also works as a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist in the BNSSG Autism Hub, and for a small private business called BICP offering Autism assessments.