The Leinster Clinic

MAYNOOTH SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPY CENTRE

Consulting Speech & Language Therapists in Private Practise

A private practise operated by Niamh O’ Mahony and Patricia Galvin specialising in the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of speech, language and written language deficits in children

Client group:

Children presenting with

(a) Developmental speech and language deficits i.e. articulation, comprehension of language and verbal expression.
(b) Written language deficits i.e. difficulties associated with reading, spelling, reading comprehension and written expression.

Note: The speech, language and communication difficulties of children with voice, stuttering/stammering, general learning difficulties and autistic spectrum disorders fall outside the scope of this practise.

Referral

Patients may self refer or G.Ps and other professionals may also refer children.

Parents/ professionals wishing to refer a child may do so by leaving a detailed message at our contact number. This referrer will then be contacted as soon as possible to discuss the referral in more detail (i.e. reasons for, and appropriateness of referral to this practise). Once the referral is appropriate, the child will be waitlisted for as assessment.

Assessment

The child should be accompanied by a parent who can observe the assessment. The assessment of the child’s articulation and/or language skills takes approximately one hour, (however this can vary according to the age and ability). The assessment of a child’s speech, language and written language skills takes approximately two hours. Preliminary feedback will be given after the assessment, which can be followed in due course by a detailed report, if requested. A treatment plan, if indicated, will be negotiated and agreed at the end of the session.

Treatment

A half to one hour session, weekly or fortnightly, will be offered at a mutually suitable time. A parent is expected to attend and observe or participate in the session (it is more effective therapeutically if the same parent attends all sessions). The course of therapy is dependent on the type and severity of the deficit.

Table of Fees
Consultation and Initial Assessment of Developmental Speech and language Skills (including oral feedback)

Consultation and Initial Assessment of Speech, Language and Written Language Skills (including oral feedback)

Initial Assessment Written Report €200.00

Review Assessment and Oral Feedback

Review Assessment Written Report €100.00

€60.00
Therapy Sessions -hour
-half-hour €100.00
€60.00
Home programme €100.00
Other Written Reports/Progress Reports €60.00

Biography

Niamh O’ Mahony BSc. (Hons) graduated from Trinity College in 1991 with an Honours degree in Clinical Speech and Language Studies. For the following six years she worked as part of a multidisciplinary team providing speech and language therapy services to children with varying degrees of general learning difficulty. Her responsibilities included the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of children presenting with developmental speech and language delay/disorder. She was also very much involved in parent training and regularly planned and ran courses for this purpose.

Niamh then worked as a Senior Speech and Language Therapist for a number of years providing speech and language therapy services to children and adolescents presenting with communication difficulties as part of a broader social, emotional and behavioural difficulty. Her work here expended to include the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of written language difficulties/dyslexia in children.

Over the course of her work Niamh has attended many further training courses and achieved additional qualifications, encompassing a wide spectrum of areas including articulation (Nuffield Dyspraxia Programme), child language (Derbyshire Language Scheme), parent education (Hanen Parent Training Programme), sign language (Lamh), written language difficulties and feeding.

Currently working as a Consulting Private Practitioner, Niamh draws from a broad base of knowledge gleaned from over 15 years experience in the field of paediatric speech and language therapy. As a private clinician, she specialises in the diagnosis and treatment of developmental speech, language and written language delays/disorders and is a founder director of Maynooth Speech and Language Therapy Centre.

Patricia Galvin, M.A., (Hons), H.D.E., B.A., is a Consulting Speech and Language Therapist in Private Practise at the Maynooth Speech and Language Therapy Centre. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree and Diploma in Education from University College Cork and her Masters degree in Speech and Language Pathology from St. John’s University, Jamaica, New York in 1993.

Earlier in her career, she held various teaching positions in post-primary education both in Ireland and New York teaching Language Arts. After her masters, she gained many years clinical experience working with infants, children and adolescents in the Rehabilitation Department of Staten Island University Hospital, Staten Island, New York. In this position she attained expertise in the areas of assessment and remediation of various speech, language and swallowing disorders, along with providing a clinical training and supervision role.
She returned to Ireland and worked for a time as a Senior Speech and Language Therapist, and latterly manager, in the SLT Department of a child and adolescent mental health service in Dublin.

She has been working in private practise of the past 8 years. She is a Founder Director of the Maynooth Speech and Language Therapy Centre providing a specialisation in developmental speech/language delays/disorders and written language disorders/dyslexia.