Talk to a speech and language advisor

Are you concerned that your child is struggling with talking and understanding words? You are not alone. There are currently 1.9 million children across the UK who face the same challenges.

We know it can often be confusing to navigate a child’s development, that’s why we have two free services to support you:

• An advice line for parents or carers and practitioners to discuss concerns they have about a child
• A series of webinars designed to give parents the tools they need to support their child

Advice line

Our free advice line is a confidential phone call with an experienced speech and language advisor for families living in the United Kingdom. During the 30-minute call, you will be given the opportunity to talk through your concerns and questions regarding your child’s development.  

Our speech and language advisors will be able to provide you with information on typical development, as well as advice on how to support your child’s skills. They will also be able to signpost you to other services.  

Following the call, you will receive an email summary with tips, techniques and signposting to other helpful services.  

This service does not include meeting and assessing children. The speech and language advisor cannot give specific advice on topics such as diagnosis or the provision the child is receiving, but will aim to signpost to services and organisations that can help further. This service is only available to families living in the United Kingdom.

Booking Notice

We release advice line call slots every Friday for the week after next. We hope this will reduce the time to wait for a call with a speech and language advisor. Please check the advice line availability again after 12pm Friday for more call slots. As demand is high please book only one slot and let us know if you can’t attend so that it can be offered to another family.

In the meantime, please do book a place on to one of our Talking with your toddler webinars to receive some ideas for supporting your child’s speech, language and communication skills.

The advice line team, Speech and Language UK

Book your advice line appointment here.