Saba Khan

SPECIALIST paediatric SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPIST (NEUROLOGY)

Saba qualified as a Speech & Language Therapist (BSc Hons) from Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh in 2009. She has specialised in working with children with complex communication difficulties and dysphagia since 2012. She has experience of working across different NHS trusts including Central and northwest London, Guys and St Thomas and Bromley.   

Saba is passionate about working with children and families to maximize their potential to eat, drink and swallow safely.  She has a wide range of experience in eating and drinking disorders including dysphagia in infants, management of children who have complex motor disorders such as Cerebral palsy, or ENT difficulties such as tracheostomies. She has developed and delivered supervision and training and support for other speech therapists to develop their competencies with children who have eating, drinking and swallowing difficulties.  

Saba has experience of working collaboratively with other professionals, educational staff, and carers across many different communication environments such as family homes, in clinics, and in special and mainstream schools, hospices, additionally resourced provisions & nurseries.  She has supported children will lots of different complex communication difficulties such as accessing communication systems through eye-gaze and errorless learning, through to using touch cues and objects to support understanding of the environmental routines. She is dedicated to problem-solving to work with the child and family to develop functional and lasting communication changes.   

Saba is bilingual and has lived in various countries such as Pakistan, Saudi-Arabia, and various cities within the UK: London, Edinburgh, and Aberdeen. She comes from a mixed-heritage family and relishes the opportunities to work with people from all walks of life.