Broad Oaks Speech Therapy

Broad Oaks Speech Therapy Paediatric Speech and Language Therapist
🎓BSc, BAHons,MRCSLT, MASLTIP, HCPC Registered
📍Laurencetown, County Down
📍Camlough, County Armagh

21/05/2026

Another proud big Abil-OT moment 💙🥰

We know we’ve been super quiet on here recently, but it’s because we’ve been very busy behind the scenes with clinic work, school visits, preschool group visits & interventions, drafting reports, and developing new resources 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️

This week we completed, printed, and posted out our new Abil-OT “Supporting Regulation Through Movement” programme for schools!!! 🎉🎉🎉

It has been a labour of love! And we’ve designed it to support schools with practical, realistic, regulation informed movement opportunities across the school day.

A lot of thought, clinical reasoning, rewriting, designing, printing, checking, and coffee went into this one.

Very proud of the team for getting it over the line 💙

If you are a teacher or a parent and you know of any schools, preschools, or educational settings who may benefit from this support around regulation, movement, sensory processing, or sensory motor groups, please feel free to share our page or get in touch 🌻

Friendly reminder there will be no sessions on Friday 22nd or Saturday 23rd May as I am jetting off to the 🌞 for the wee...
08/05/2026

Friendly reminder there will be no sessions on Friday 22nd or Saturday 23rd May as I am jetting off to the 🌞 for the weekend to give my neighbour here at The Point the bumps for her Birthday Celebrations 🥳👑💓

25/04/2026

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25/04/2026

Fr tho 🤣

29/01/2026

When you realise building rapport with parents IS professional… and good craic 🤣🤣

25/01/2026

Grateful for every single one of you!!!

Mouth breathing- let’s talk about it.Have you ever considered mouth breathing could be affecting your child’s speech? T...
18/01/2026

Mouth breathing- let’s talk about it.

Have you ever considered mouth breathing could be affecting your child’s speech?
This is my wee girl Maeve but I call her ‘my wee moo-moo’ 😭😭
My wee Moo-Moo is a mouth breather, a snorer, and yes, she has a speech sound disorder ☠️ (not a great advertisement for my business but we roll 🤣🤣🤣)

As a Speech and Language Therapist & a parent, I understand how easy it is to overlook the connection between how our children breathe and how they speak.

But there is a link- Persistent mouth breathing, snoring, and enlarged tonsils/adenoids don’t just affect sleep and health – they directly impact speech production. When children can’t breathe comfortably through their nose, it changes:
• Tongue resting position
• Oral muscle tone and strength
• Articulation of specific sounds
• Overall speech clarity

And this is why an oral assessment matters! During your initial consultation at Broad Oaks Speech Therapy, we complete a thorough oral examination to either highlight or rule out structural factors that may be contributing to your child’s speech difficulties. This includes assessing:
🌳Tonsil and adenoid size
🌳Tongue tie or restricted lingual frenulum
🌳Palate structure and function
🌳Lip and tongue strength and movement
🌳Breathing patterns (nasal vs. mouth breathing)

If oral structural concerns are identified, I’ll guide you toward the right medical professionals (typically an ENT specialist) to address any underlying issues alongside speech therapy.

Sometimes the most important part of speech therapy is knowing when to refer out and work as part of an MDT.

If like mine, your child mouth breathes, snores, or has unclear speech, get in touch so we can lool at the full picture together.

Mary-Ellen xo

📍 Laurencetown & Camlough

“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” We are Hiring!!! We are looking for a motivated...
05/01/2026

“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”

We are Hiring!!!

We are looking for a motivated and compassionate Paediatric Speech & Language Therapist to join our growing team covering Laurencetown Clinic on a Saturday.

🌳Band 6 (Band 5 considered with relevant experience)
🌳Experience supporting Autism and AAC preferred
🌳Able to work autonomously, manage own caseload and organise diary effectively
🌳Confident running a Saturday clinic independently
🌳Friendly, professional and client-centred approach essential
🌳Attractive Hourly rate

We offer relevant training, ongoing CPD, and professional support at every stage of your role.

If you are interested, please send us a DM or email for more information.

03/12/2025

Nothing beats the moment a child hears themselves make a sound they’ve been working so so hard on 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

I am ABSOLUTELY delighted can you tell 😂😂😭😭🥳🥳🥳🥳 also straight into eliciting more productions and reducing cues. We ended this session with 50 accurate productions with reduced cues/prompts needed. It can be tough but with consistency and practice, we are getting there 💪

28/11/2025

✨ Our very LAST Sing, Sign & Rhyme session of 2025! ✨

What an incredible year of wiggling, giggling, signing and singing with your little ones. Thank you for every rhyme shouted, every sign learned, and every smile shared 💛

If you’d like your playgroup or nursery to join the magic in 2026, the diary is now OPEN!
📲 Contact Mary-Ellen via WhatsApp: 07708512380 to secure your sessions.

Here’s to an amazing year ahead! ✨
&Rhyme

Putting the ‘communication’ in communication skills 💪 We are giving you a full month’s notice that we close on Sat 20th...
11/11/2025

Putting the ‘communication’ in communication skills 💪

We are giving you a full month’s notice that we close on Sat 20th Dec and open again Wed 7th Jan 2026.

I for one can’t wait for Emer’s first Christmas, mince pies with vanilla custard, the purple Quality Street, Baileys over Ice and the Annual O’Hare Christmas Family Quiz & Karaoke session 🤩

Santa would be proud of the early announcement 🫠🎁😄

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Banbridge

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Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm

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+447708512380

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