Specialised Children's Services

We can support you with:

- 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

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

Children's Clinical Services

We are highly experienced specialists who work with pre-school and school-age children across a broad spectrum of communication needs and conditions

Specialist Voice Provision for Young Performers

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 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.

Support for performers:

- Choristers

- Theatre and Stage Performers

- Touring Musical Performers

- Vocal Change and Puberty Support (performers)

- Voice Guardianship Programme

- LAMDA Examination Coaching

- Confidence Coaching