Aimee Laming (née Ross) BA (Hons), MSc, HCPC registered, MRCSLT, MASLTIP.
“As a therapist I really enjoy my job and watching the progress that the children make during the therapy period. It is also very satisfying to be able to help families and schools to develop a child’s speech and language skills, and to make the most of the child’s potential”.
As an experienced paediatric speech and language therapist, Aimee is dedicated to providing a fun, effective service to children with a range of speech, language and communication difficulties. She specialises in working with children with speech sound delays and disorders, verbal dyspraxia , Down’s Syndrome, language delays/disorders (receptive and expressive), and learning difficulties.
Aimee has been working as a paediatric speech and language therapist for over 13 years. She has worked as part of a multi-disciplinary team (both within primary schools, special schools and Children’s Centres) and as a result has a good understanding of working within a professional team. Aimee has a great deal of experience working with pre-school and primary school age children and has continued to develop her skills at a postgraduate level.
Aimee has a child-centred, fun approach to therapy and as a parent of two young children can identify with the children and families she is working with.
Aimee has a 2:1 Psychology honours degree and an MSc in Language Pathology.She is a registered member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (MRCSLT), the Health Care and Professions Council (HCPC), and the Association of Speech and Language Therapists in Independent Practice (ASLTIP). She has an up to date DBS check.
Postgraduate Training includes:
- Attention Autism – Gina Davies – Days 1 and 2.
- TEACCH – division TEACCH, (Treatment and Education of Autistic and related
- Communication Handicapped Children) –Gary Mesibov
- Picture Exchange System (PECS) –Pyramid Training
- EarlyBird NAS licence- the EarlyBird Centre.
- Assessing and Teaching Social Skills – Alex Kelly (Talkabout).
- Makaton and Signalong – basic and intermediate signing training.
- The New Nuffield Dyspraxia Programme.
- Assessment and Intervention for Children with Unintelligible speech.
- Hanen- It takes two to talk.
- Introduction to AAC – Communication Aid Centre.
- Speech, Language and Communication development for children with Down’s Syndrome (0-16 years).
- Caroline Bowen – Spoiled for Choice and Sound Reasoning (therapy approaches for children with speech sound disorders)
- Behavioural feeding difficulties in children.
- Post graduate Certificate of Competence -The Practical Management of Eating and Drinking difficulties in children –Intermediate level– April Winstock and Sue Strudwick
- An introduction to the Practical Management of Eating and Drinking difficulties in children –April Winstock
Courses i have recently attended
- Evidence based Intervention for children with speech sound disorders – Caroline Bowen
- Social Thinking presented by Michelle Garcia-Winner and Pamela Cook (2 day courses 2015 and 2017)
- Evelina Hospital MDT sensory feeding course.