Speech and Language Therapy for children with Down’s Syndrome

Children’s speech and language therapy has a vital role to play in helping children with Down’s Syndrome develop their language to its full potential. Children’s speech therapy should be tailored to the specific learning profile commonly associated with those with Down’s Syndrome but also keep the individual child at the heart of planning and decisions.

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  • Just like any other child, your child is unique. Speech and language therapy can help identify and target specific areas that your child would benefit from developing at that time, such as clearer speech, conversations with friends or building sentences to get their message across. Speech and language therapy can be delivered for a shorter period of time for one agreed area, or working on lots of different things over a longer time frame.

  • Yes, All Join In Speech and Language Therapy owner Anna Chimenti has completed training with both Down Syndrome Education Internation and Down Syndrome UK. She also accesses specialist supervision and currently has a small caseload of children with Down’s Syndrome locally, all of whom are working on different things based on their own specific needs and priorities. Associate therapist Eleanor Jones also has a special interest in working with children with Down’s Syndrome.

  • Anna first starting working with E in February 2025. She sees him weekly in school with his fantastic 1:1 and has also done some sessions at home in the school holidays with his family. E uses lots of spoken language and is working on building longer sentences with the connecting word “and”, using tricky sounds like “sh” to say important words (like “station” as trains are his favourite!) and asking questions to find out things he wants to know. E’s love of trains makes all our therapy sessions fun – we have made long train tracks to think about the concept word “long”, we have driven trains to the “station” or the “shop” to practice “sh” words and we have made a special picture book to practice asking “What is Emily doing?” and “What is Thomas doing?”.