{"id":8,"date":"2026-10-15T15:10:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T14:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/aslt-new\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2026-10-15T15:35:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T14:35:01","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/aslt\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"What we do"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Assessment<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Triage referrals by assessing all incoming referrals to find out whether there is a risk that can be managed by adult speech and language therapy, and ascertain how urgent the risk is.<\/li>\n<li>Re-assess and evaluate interventions with further advice as required, including ongoing monitoring where this is right.<\/li>\n<li>Assess and support clients needing assistive technology.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span id=\"Advice\" class=\"ez-toc-section\"><\/span>Advice<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Give evidence-based advice for diagnosing, treating and managing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/conditions\/swallowing-problems-dysphagia\/\">dysphagia<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/conditions\/social-care-and-support\/communication-problems-carers\/#types-of-communication-problems\">communication disorders<\/a>, (not all options described will be available locally) promoting health, and preventing disease.<\/li>\n<li>Provide information and education to clients on how to achieve goals.<\/li>\n<li>Provide education on how to manage a clinical condition or prevent complications related to the condition.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span id=\"Support\" class=\"ez-toc-section\"><\/span>Support<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Develop appropriate care plans.<\/li>\n<li>Negotiate and agree goals with clients and their carers, including contributing to the interdisciplinary goal-planning process.<\/li>\n<li>Facilitate a smooth transition for adults needing ongoing adult speech and language therapy when they are being transferred from other services (e.g. paediatric team, an acute setting).<\/li>\n<li>Participate in multidisciplinary meetings to discuss client care plans.<\/li>\n<li>Work with other agencies to integrate adult speech and language therapy into other services.<\/li>\n<li>Develop and review written information for clients and other health professionals.<\/li>\n<li>Provide onward referral to appropriate services for clients whose needs cannot be safely met within the adult speech and language therapy team.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span id=\"Treatment\" class=\"ez-toc-section\"><\/span>Treatment<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Provide a specialist adult speech and language therapy to clients that meet the referral criteria.<\/li>\n<li>Offer group and individual treatment, and education appropriate for the needs of the client.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assessment Triage referrals by assessing all incoming referrals to find out whether there is a risk that can be managed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/aslt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/aslt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/aslt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/aslt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/aslt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/aslt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/aslt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/9"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/aslt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/aslt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}