Meet our team

Alison Phipps
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Amy Guest
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Dawn Tomalin
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Natasha Hallam
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Georgina White
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Libby Hill
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Kaye Smith
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Tara Wilson
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Trudi Brown
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Margaret Goom
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Amy has over 10 years experience of working in a range of mainstream and specialist settings with children/young people with complex speech, language and communication needs. She is a devoted mother of two girls and one fur baby. Favourite resource: anything that she can share enjoyment with! 

Dawn Tomalin has 13 years experience of working as a speech and language therapist and specialises in working with children and young people diagnosed as autistic and PDA. Dawn carries out initial assessments, EHCP assessments and ASD screens at the clinic as well as working with a range of families to offer both direct and consultative led therapy. Dawn has experience of supporting young people and their families who are experiencing school refusal and she is very passionate about ensuring the child or young person’s needs are heard. She is a mother to a beautiful little boy who likes to keep her on her toes. Favourite resource: anything that provides movement!

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Georgina White has 11 years experience of working as a Speech and Language therapist at Small Talk. She is a loving mother of one, who enjoys quality family time, walking, yoga and curling up with a good book. Georgina enjoys working with a range of Speech, Language and Communication needs but gets the most reward from supporting parents and carers, and education staff within school settings. Her ultimate aim is to provide a clear understanding of a child’s strengths and needs, and supporting those in the child’s/young person’s environment so that they have the best chance of reaching their true potential!

Favourite Resources: I-pad, white board and Dobble.

Libby Hill has 37 years’ experience of being a speech and language therapist. She is mother of two and doting Grandma to one. She is a member of the Therapist Neurodiversity Collective, which is an international neurodiversity-affirming therapy, education, and advocacy organization. She specialises in working with autistic children and young people, plus those with PDA and selective mutism. She works with a co-therapist, a chocolate Labrador called Ralph. Libby enjoys working with the full range of SLCN from ‘playing with’ 2-year old pre-verbal gestalt processors to assessing students for university.

Favourite resource: her ipad! 

Kaye Smith is a proud mother of two. She worked in mainstream school for 20 years before joining Small Talk. She loves working with children and families to support language and communication development. She sees many pre-verbal children especially those who are gestalt processors.

Favourite resource: the swing in her therapy room

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