Services Provided

What Patients Do We Work With?

Our department provides assessment and treatment to infants, children and adults with a wide range of communication and/or swallowing difficulties across all hospital wards in CUH. We work with patients, their families and members of the Multidisciplinary team. Some of the services provided/patient groups we work with include:

• Children and adults following an Acquired/Traumatic Brain Injury
• Patients in the Intensive Care Unit 
• Geriatrics
• Newborn infants
• Children and adults with Neurological conditions including; Progressive Diseases (Parkinson’s Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Motor Neurone Disease), epilepsy, stroke, cerebral palsy, developmental delay etc.
• Neurosurgery
• Stroke

Our Specialist Outpatient Clinics:

• Cleft Lip and Palate
• Motor Neuron Disease
• Facial Paresis Clinic
• Videofluoroscopy Service
• Neonatology Feeding, Eating, Drinking and Swallowing
• Paediatric Feeding, Eating, Drinking and Swallowing
• Awake Craniotomy
• SLT in Cancer Services

If you have been offered an SLT appointment, please see your appointment letter for details.  If you cannot attend, please contact 021-4922880 as soon as possible so we may;

1. Facilitate the early offering of your cancelled appointment to another patient

2. Arrange a further appointment

3. Remove you from the waitlist (if you feel you no longer require the service)

If you have another appointment in CUH within a close timeframe to your Speech and Language Therapy appointment, please contact us. We will try to rearrange your appointment with us to a time and day which will reduce the number of visits to CUH and duration of your visit. Please understand that this may not always be possible.