Testimonials
Hear directly from the children, young people, adults, and their families we’ve supported to get a true sense of our work.
"Amica SL&CC provide a wonderfully supportive, comprehensive and professional Speech and Language Therapy Service. We have been involved with Amica for a number of years now and have had a thoroughly positive experience throughout. We do feel incredibly lucky to have Amica in our lives and feel extremely supported as a family."
Family member
"Thank you for all of Nikki's hard work and expertise this year. Her input has really made a difference to the lives of our pupils. She is amazing with our children and every response is child-centred. I love working with her."
School Setting
"Extremely comprehensive assessment which informed a detailed and tailored plan. The advice given was pertinent and extremely effective. Speech and language improved beyond all expectation."
Mother of a young person with complex communication needs
"I cannot praise Laura enough. She has been supporting my son for a while and he has learnt a great deal from his sessions with Laura. Nothing is too much trouble for her. Would definitely recommend Laura."
Parent
"Both therapists have developed excellent relationships with our grandson and all the family. Wonderful intensive interaction, using an exciting range of resources. Fun varied sessions which are enabling him to be able to communicate more."
Family member
"Brilliant; you are a highly skilled practitioner Ami, who has helped our daughter immeasurably. You remained very focussed on the individual, in this case a young adult with multiple and complex needs including profound learning disability, autism and being registered blind, which you took in your stride. You have demonstrated a rare professional integrity and surpassed all our expectations; Thank you isn't enough!"
Parent of a young Autistic person
"Ami is knowledgeable and very professional. Able to quickly identify suitable strategies to support students and deliver excellent programmes for Learning Support Assistants to deliver."
School SEND Coordinator
"Angharad is extremely professional, knowledgeable and caring."
Independent School SEND Coordinator
"It was so validating to have our concerns about communication truly understood. Laura was professional, empathetic, had a person-centred approach to the assessment and provided suggestions that will not just be helpful in school but into adulthood too."
Client
"Ami provides an excellent person centred service. We're so glad we found her and feel grateful that she's involved with assisting us and our daughter with her communications difficulties."
Parent of a young person with learning disability
"Ami comes highly recommended! She has a calm manner with an intuitive approach to meeting our son's needs. She is supportive of us as a family, able to see the whole situation and readily takes time to listen and advise. Our ten year old adds: 'I like her. She is nice!'"
Mum of 10 year old Autistic boy
"Ami and her team have been a fabulous asset to our school this year, Not only through their work with our young people but also with the support and expertise they have imparted with our staff team. Our staff have certainly learned a great deal about SLCN"
School Setting
"Ami is very professional, friendly. She is always prepared and will deal with issues that we bring up."
Secondary school support assistant
"My son has complete trust in Ami. He likes going to sessions and, as far as I can see, they are helping him considerably. Ami is very efficient, and ALWAYS calls back when I need to speak to her. I believe her to be completely committed to my son's best interests."
Mum of a teenager receiving therapy
"Excellent course. Very informative and demonstrated really well by Ami. Very user friendly app – thanks!"
Feedback from participant on MyChoicePad training
"The course was varied, lots of practical things to participate in. Good fun but serious at the same time. Excellent – thank you Ami!"
Feedback from a participant on a Dysphagia Awareness Course
"Great basis to understand communication needs and how they differ. Really good to get an idea of technology available to support communication. Just great!!!"
Feedback from a participant on Enabling Environments Course
"We thoroughly enjoyed working with you, it was a great learning experience and a lot of fun in the process. It is great to work with someone who is so passionate about their job."
A Makaton course attendee
"The session was really positive, Ami is a great communicator, has an in-depth knowledge and passion for the subject and this was underpinned with good examples. The session was fun and engaging with practical activities that bought the subject to life. Learners participated well and went away with a greater understanding of Dysphagia"
Dysphagia Course Attendee
"Enjoyed the course, really useful and practical, the facilitator was friendly informative and helpful."
Course Participant
"Very good training, I feel I can take lots back to the home to work with young people."
Course Participant
"The training was all really relevant and enjoyable - Brilliant."
Course Participant