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Name: Ceara Gallagher Age: 32 Job title: Specialist speech and language therapist

Job title: Specialist speech and language therapist

Employer: I CAN Early Years Centre at Ballynahinch Primary School

Location: Ballynahinch, Northern Ireland

Duties

My job is varied and ranges from working with children to training professionals. As speech and language therapist (SLT) in our early years centre, I am involved in assessing and diagnosing children with specific speech and language difficulties, using a range of formal and informal assessments.

It is important to assess all areas of speech, language and communication.

This can include children's attention and listening skills, understanding of language, sounds and oral skills, vocabulary, sentence structure and social communication and interaction skills.

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