MySelf Healthcare is an app currently being piloted in schools that aims to be adopted by the NHS.
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Children with speech and language therapy spend years in waiting lines and weeks between sessions. MySelf Healthcare ensures progress in those gaps
1.9 million children within the UK have speech and language difficulties. This impacts far more than a child's ability to communicate. Children with unaddressed communication challenges struggle to engage in the classroom, build friendships, and develop the foundations for adult life. The data on what happens without early intervention is stark. 88% of unemployed young men have speech and language difficulties, and 79% of the UK prison population has speech, language, and communication challenges.
Access to therapy is limited, waitlists are long, and the window for early intervention closes faster than the system can respond.
Fiona McCormick is a speech and language therapist who saw the gap from the inside. She built MySelf Healthcare to ensure the weeks spent waiting for a clinic appointment were not weeks lost, and that progress continues to happen at home or at school between sessions.
“My hope is that children with speech and language difficulties can continue making progress while they are waiting for support or between therapy sessions. MySelf Healthcare is designed to help families and carers turn those gaps in care into opportunities for development.”
MySelf Healthcare delivers structured, interactive speech and language therapy exercises directly to families at home, tailored to the child's individual needs. Visual timetables, adaptive difficulty levels, and progress tracking keep children engaged and parents informed.
Despite consistent interest from NHS organisations, piloting and adoption have been challenging to navigate so far. But MySelf Healthcare has made major progress getting piloted in and adopted by schools. The evidence that this app is building will push it towards its goal of supporting all children and families who need it.
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Myself Healthcare
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Fiona McCormick
Specialist Speech and Language Therapist | North East London NHS Foundation Trust
Fiona McCormick is a specialist speech and language therapist with the North East London NHS Foundation Trust, where she works with Deaf and hearing-impaired children, and a member of the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme. Across more than five years in the field she has practised at Central London Community Healthcare and London North West Healthcare NHS Trusts, spanning paediatric, adult and acquired communication needs, and in 2022 founded Happy Chatty Speech Therapy, an independent service supporting schools and families across London.