The speech and language therapy team provide support to the neonatal unit for premature babies. The speech and language therapy team work alongside the parents, the wider therapy team and the medical team. One of our Speech and Language therapists has designed these images to support the work we do on the neonatal unit.
During our time on the neonatal unit, the therapy team meet the parents in the early days and offer support around developmental care. This is a strategy used to help reduce the amount of stress a premature infant may experience on the neonatal unit and to help them to rest, grow and get better.
The speech therapy team can also support parents to promote effective early communication and interaction skills with their premature baby helping to improve attachment and maximising speech and language outcomes for these premature babies after discharge and into childhood.
The speech therapy team can also support parents to promote effective early communication and interaction skills with their premature baby helping to improve attachment and maximising speech and language outcomes for these premature babies after discharge and into childhood.
Bliss is a charity (for babies born premature or sick) that a lot of the families we work with use. https://www.bliss.org.uk/
