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Katie Price

Principal Speech and Language Therapist and Director of The Mosaic Practice

Having qualified in 2000 from UCL, Katie has extensive experience working as a speech and language therapist with children and young people with profound, sensory and neurological difficulties.

She has worked in a wide variety of special schools, specialist pre-school setting, and hospitals, providing communication and feeding advice too.

She works with your family to enable you to be able to communicate with your child or young person in their own unique way. 

With experience in working with children with cerebral palsy, brain injury, learning difficulties, ASD, Down Syndrome, rare chromosomal abnormalities, and epilepsy, she is able to work with you to ensure your child will be able to use the best method of communication that enhances their strengths and encourages success at every stage of their therapy journey.

Hannah Heslam

Speech and Language Therapist

Hannah joined The Mosaic Practice after working in mainstream schools, nurseries and clinics because she wanted to focus on providing therapy for children with complex needs.

She loves her job at The Mosaic Practice as she gets to work closely with our special families, working in partnership, to provide therapy for children with a range of complex needs that is specific and individualised for the families needs.

She has been described by our families as approachable, providing fun and engaging therapy and keen to build positive relationships.

She loves coming to work knowing that what we do as Speech and Language Therapists makes a real functional difference to the lives of the children and families we work together with.

Ruth Starns

Occupational therapist – Sensory integration specialist

Ruth joined The Mosaic Practice after working with children and adults with learning disabilities and mental health difficulties as well as qualifying as a sensory integration specialist. This experience developed her interest in working with children with complex needs using sensory integration therapy tactics to support the child and their families.

She has a passion to utilise her unique skills and expertise on the nervous system to support families to help their child by assessing their sensory profile and offering strategies to meet their sensory needs and promote regulation.

Ruth works closely with our speech and language therapists to help bridge the gap between a child’s sensory needs and the presence of communication and processing difficulties. She loves her job at The Mosaic Practice as it allows her to work closely with other professionals to create a holistic therapy plan to meet the needs of the families she supports.

Mia Parker

Speech and Language Therapist

Mia has been working as a newly qualified therapist with children of all ages with complex needs and speech sound disorders since joining The Mosaic Practice.

She has gained experience working with children and adults in different settings including community clinics, mainstream and special schools as well as residential homes. She has worked with children with ranging difficulties and needs including delayed language development, speech sound disorders, ASD, epilepsy and cerebral palsy.

Mia strives to work closely with parents and other professionals to support children in meeting their communication potential and successfully engage in functional and meaningful interactions with others.

She puts the child’s unique strengths and needs at the centre of activities to shape a therapy approach which is holistic and individual to each family. Mia has a passion to help make a difference in the lives of the children she works with by ensuring therapy is an exciting and enjoyable experience by using their play passions to support and develop their communication needs.

Jen Wilamowska

Speech and Language Therapist 

Jen has extensive experience working as a speech and language therapist with children and young people with complex needs and language disorders.

She has worked in a wide variety of special and mainstream schools, community clinics, children’s centres, and secondary language units. She has done lots of work with hearing-impaired children in primary and secondary units.

She adopts a total communication approach when working with families to enable them to be able to communicate with their child or young person in a way that is unique and meaningful to them.

With experience in working with children with cerebral palsy, brain injury, learning difficulties, ASD, hearing impairment, speech disorders, apraxia and delayed language disorder she can support families to adopt a method of communication that is suitable for their child to allow them express themselves and develop their relationships.

Leyla Miles

Practice Administrator

Leyla was welcomed into The Mosaic Practice in 2022 as the practice administrator.

She is the first person you will have contact with and has the overview of the whole practice so helps to keep us organised and our diary full!

Leyla has understanding of children with additional needs as two of her siblings have required therapy in the past and she is committed to making a difference in their lives.

Can you see yourself working with us?

If you have a passion for quality care and intervention for complex children, please get in touch.

We would love to hear from you as we consider do have roles available as caseloads change.

Our Therapy Partners

We work very closely with other very experienced professionals to create a multidisciplinary therapy service around your child’s specific needs.

Specialist Teachers

Encompass Consultancy

Occupational Therapists

Physiotherapists

Centaur PT
The Banana Tree
Natalie Howe, Physiotherapist

Psychology

Recolo
Jenni English

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