Amanda is a paediatric speech and language therapist and education consultant, with over 20 years of experience. She runs a consultancy service across the UK and Middle East, where she lived for seven years. Amanda is passionate about enhancing children’s communication skills and has specialist experience working with children with complex needs, including eating and drinking difficulties. Alongside her clinical practice Amanda provides training, supervision, clinical based research and service reviews for nurseries, schools and other organisations. She works as an education consultant to a number of professional, charitable and children’s media organisations, including the Royal College of Speech Language Therapists, the Down Syndrome Association and Tractor Ted. Amanda advises on the development and production across all platforms of children’s media from film and TV to web content and books. From a personal perspective Amanda has four sons, three who have dyslexia and one who has Down syndrome. To find out more or get in touch please visit www.amandagriffiths.uk.
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