My husband spent nearly 5 months in neuro rehab after his severe stroke which left him with moderate expressive and receptive Aphasia.  During his time away from home, I was able to spend time searching for the correct experienced Speech and Language Therapist that would benefit his recovery the most.  I wanted someone who not only had a significant amount of experience with stroke and Aphasia but also someone that understood the difficulties the whole family would face as a result.  I didn't have to look very far before I found Amy and instantly from the moment I read her bio I knew she would be the right SALT.  My husband was discharged with very little speech apart from 'stock phrases' and his understanding was quite impaired too.  14 months down the line, his understanding has been shown through assessments performed by Amy to be 'normal'.  His expressive speech has dramatically improved to the point of him now being able to talk in constructive sentences.  As Amy has got to know my husband through his therapy, she has been excellent at identifying problem areas that need work on, for instance she has recently picked up that there may be a problem in the auditory processing loop.  She has also picked up that there is some mild apraxia which wasn't diagnosed while in rehab.  Amy is continuously updating her knowledge through CPD also which is so essential for practice.  Two years post stroke, we are still continuing to make excellent progress and Amy always targets the right areas of difficulty at the right level and knows how to achieve progress.  She is also very passionate not just about sit down therapy sessions but likes to transfer the learning into function by taking the client out into the community to enhance the skills they have learned through her therapy.  This is something we haven't been able to do due to the pandemic but we have recently had discussions about this and is something that will be happening imminently as lockdown starts to lift.  We would've been lost without Amy and I cannot recommend her highly enough.  I finally feel like we are getting our life back.

Mrs S, March 2021