Lydia Knight is a children’s SLT in the NHS involved in community based practise in schools and clinics for six years. She has been involved with the charity Afasic, giving speeches since teenagehood about her personal experiences of developmental language disorder (DLD), youth projects and research.
Lydia is now engaged in a range of projects and organisations to help improve the wellbeing and outcomes for children and adults with DLD, people who stammer, and self-advocacy skills.
Lydia is also engaging in projects to begin raising awareness of cerebral visual impairment (CVI) in speech and language therapy services.