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Voice Vitality

Specialist Children's Services

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Voice Vitality works with:

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  • Language Delay/ Developmental Language Disorder

  • Speech Sound Difficulties

  • Autistic Spectrum Condition

  • Attention Deficit Disorder

  • Dyspraxia

  • Dyslexia

  • Social Interaction Difficulties

  • Selective mutism

  • Auditory Processing Difficulties

  • Developmental Delay

  • Hearing Impairment

  • Stammering

  • Voice Problems

  • Communication Support

  • Children not in education

  • SEND Advocacy and Assessments

  • EHCP Process and Tribunals

  • Medico legal expert witness and reports

Children's Clinical Services

Penny-Anne O'Donnell works with pre-school and school-age children across a broad spectrum of communication needs and conditions

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Expertise

 

Penny-Anne O’Donnell developed her expertise as a qualified Children’s Clinical Vocal Trainer by working across nurseries, pre-schools, schools, Colleges of Further Education, and also chairing the Children and Young Persons Wellbeing Board in Warwickshire County Council.

 

Professionally, Penny-Anne is qualified to offer the following support:

  • Attention Autism

  • Attachment Disorder

  • Auditory Processing Skills

  • Derbyshire Language Scheme

  • ICan Talk Boost and Early Talk Boost programmes

  • Johansen Auditory Stimulation Programme

  • Functional Language in the Classroom

  • The Lidcombe Programme for young stammerers

  • PCI Therapy from the Michael Palin Centre for Stammering Children.

  • Makaton Signing

  • Memory and Thinking Skills

  • Michelle Garcia Winner’s Social Thinking framework

  • Strategies aligned with the National Numeracy and Literacy Strategy

  • Selective Mutism (Maggie Johnson)

  • Vocabulary Enhancement across Key Stages

  • Lego Therapy

Specialist Voice Provision for Young Performers

Group Activity Session

Supporting choristers, theatre performers, and young vocalists to develop confident, healthy, and expressive voices.

Penny-Anne has extensive training in supporting young performers’ voices, including work with the National Youth Theatre, the British Voice Association, the Webber Douglas Academy, Cameron Mackintosh' s touring musicals, the Royal Shakespeare Company and LAMDA.

 

She has played a leading role in developing industry-recognised vocal health programmes, including designing and delivering the original and ongoing Vocal Safety Programme for Matilda the Musical, serving as a resident Speech and Language Therapist on West End and UK touring productions, and contributing to vocal safety initiatives adopted by the new Paddington musical.

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Support for performers

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  • Choristers

  • Theatre and Stage Performers

  • Touring Musical Performers

  • Vocal Change and Puberty Support (performers)

  • Voice Guardianship Programme

  • LAMDA Examination Coaching

  • Confidence Coaching

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