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Polly Chapman

Polly has her own independent speech and language therapy practice - My Speech Therapist - and lives with her family in Broadstairs Kent, by the seaside. She is a highly specialist speech and language therapist (SLT/SaLT), with over 10 years clinical experience and specialises in early functional communication and language disorders, AAC, autistic spectrum disorder & neurodivergence, Down Syndrome and speech sound disorders (including CAS). She completed her undergraduate degree in English at Exeter University, and gained a Post Graduate Diploma in Speech and Language Therapy from The University of Christchurch & University of Greenwich. In her NHS career she has been clinical lead for Speech Sound Disorders, social communication differences & neurodivergence. She was team lead for the NHS multidisciplinary Children's Therapies team. Polly is ADOS trained and until recently was part of the local NHS neurodevelopmental diagnostic team.

Babies & Toddlers: Why I absolutely love reading noisy books!

Babies, Blog, Play, Preschools, Toddlers / October 22, 2023 / By Polly Chapman

I’m a speech therapist, so of course I don’t want silence and quiet! I want to make all kinds of silly noises. I want to bang on the drum, stamp our feet, clap our hands. I want to blow raspberries, roar loudly Iike a tiger, hiss quietly like a snake and shout ‘boo!’ I want to play with all the sounds we can make with our bodies and our voices.

Hello!

About Me, Blog / August 12, 2023 / By Polly Chapman

Meet our family of child-development experts Hello & welcome. We are Polly & Daphne Chapman, a highly experienced clinical specialist speech and language therapist and a retired nurse, midwife, SENCo. specialising in child-development. By bringing our different areas of child-development professional expertise together we hope to offer you articles that are informative, well-balanced and backed up …

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