Speech & Language Therapy West Essex

Our team helps adults aged 18 and over who have problems with speaking, understanding language, or swallowing. This includes helping people with brain, breathing, mental health, and throat conditions, as well as those with head and neck cancer, voice issues, or unknown causes for their communication or swallowing difficulties.

We work in the community and visit patients at their homes, care facilities, health centers, and mental health clinics.

We will offer personalised help based on each situation. We will work with you and your community to meet your goals. This can include advice, one-on-one or group sessions, teaching you how to manage your condition, and connecting you with helpful organisations.

We do not offer advice to people with people with congenital or developmental differences. This includes people who stutter, need help with communication due to conditions like autism or ADHD, and those with learning disabilities. We also can't help with voice concerns related to gender identity.

• Over 18
• Registered to with GP in west Essex and living West Essex geographical area unless under a specified head and neck pathway.
• Have an acquired (in adulthood) known or suspected communication inc. voice, or swallow difficulty which requires initial or further input due to change in that condition
• All referrals for voice must first have been seen by Ears, Nose and Throat (ENT) for a laryngeal exam
• Any upper airway referrals must first have undergone respiratory investigations.
• All care home referrals for dysphagia should use our specific referral form and follow guidance in our care home dysphagia pack before making referrals in.
• Referrals are accepted from all acute and community-based health professional sources including self-referral if that person is already known to our service