Speech and language therapy can help:

• ​children who find it difficult to make specific speech sounds, for example, saying 'tat' instead of 'cat' or 'bish' instead of 'fish'

• children who find it difficult to put words together in the right order to make sentences

• children who find it difficult to have conversations with others and may become frustrated 

• children who find it difficult to play with others, for example, sharing, taking turns and thinking about how others feel

• children who find it difficult to sequence their thoughts and ideas, both in talking and in writing

• children who find it difficult to understand language and may get confused easily when spoken to 

• children who find it difficult and frustrating to think of words when they want to use them, and may use similar words like 'apple' instead of 'orange'

• children and young people who have lots of ideas but have difficulty expressing them in words or writing them down in schoolwork or exams