Testimonials

We welcome comments and feedback from our clients, whether they are parents or schools (or indeed the children themselves!)

It’s difficult to put into words how grateful we are for Julia from Clear Talking. Julia gave my son his voice when he couldn’t find his own. As parents we didn’t know what to do, it was clear our son was struggling and after years of being an interpreter to friends and family, we decided to seek support from a Speech and Language Therapist. We knew from the first conversation that Julia was going to be the one to help my son find his voice. Julia explained everything to us throughout our journey with her, supporting us as parents to supporting us as parents to support our son. Julia made the work fun and always finished each session with a fun game as a well done! Little did we know that only a short while after finishing working with our eldest that we would need her support again with our youngest. Without hesitation I reached out to Julia and we started all over again. Recommending Julia to others is something I never hesitate to do, she is fantastic at what she does, supportive to the whole family and will continue to recommend her to others. Once again, thank you Julia for all you’ve done for me and my family x Lauren H

Thanks for Everything. You helped Adam to find his voice - a gift we will treasure forever. Thank you Lynsey and Dave

Beaumont Hill Academy and Marchbank Free School - Julia’s knowledge, skills and personality mean that pupils feel relaxed working with her, parents feel supported in identification of and support to develop their child’s communication strategies and staff feel supported in confidently supporting pupils in the classrooms. Julia’s work with pupils with complex receptive and expressive language needs, supports pupils to develop as confident communicators. Julia seeks and uses a range of strategies to ensure that pupils including non-verbal pupils, have a means of having their voice heard. Caroline Green Executive Principal

St Joseph’s RC School approached Julia as some of our children required speech and language therapy.  We believed that good communication skills were vital to achieve academic success.  As a result, Julia helped us by assessing and delivering high quality, individual speech and language programmes tailored to the individual needs.  She also provided staff with valuable CPD through discussions and practical demonstrations.  The results of such programmes, that Julia put in place, are having a tremendous impact on our children.  Julia also provided detailed updates to members of staff each week, individual targets for the child and met with a number of parents to discuss a child’s progress.  St Joseph’s would highly recommend Julia to anyone who is thinking of employing a speech and language expert in school or working individually with your child.  The whole school have noted Julia’s dedication and commitment each week.    

My name is Tess Forsdyke and I am Mum to 4 year old Tristan. Tristan has Hemiplegia and as a result of this has speech delay. Tristan suffered very badly with confidence and having had a bad experience with a past therapist he was not open to SALT, his speech was minimal and non-existent around anyone outside the family. I contacted Julia Charlesworth through the ASLTP website and arranged for him to have an assessment. Having attended the assessment and roughly 7 sessions I believe it is fair to say Julia has performed a miracle, he is no longer scared and enjoys trying to talk and after only 3 sessions he was actually happy to speak to a stranger. He is happy and relaxed to attend sessions and actually looks forwards to them. Having been such a success we have decided to keep the sessions going even though we have managed to get an NHS therapist. I never believed that Tristan would be doing so well in only 4 months and spent a lot of time worrying, although we still don’t know what the future holds I am happy to say it seems that little bit less worrying. Thank you from all of us from the bottom of our hearts.