Mel’s Tiny Talkers
Speech & Language Therapy Services
Transforming lives through connection, compassion and collaboration
Bespoke trauma-informed speech & language therapy services for clinicians, clients and families
Inspiring, educating and guiding the future of speech and language therapy.
Giving YOU the power to change how you think to create a positive ripple effect of change.
To do what you love and transform lives.
Work with me
Bespoke speech & language therapy services for clinicians, clients and families
Professional Development
Thrive personally and professionally by creating long-lasting change through bespoke clinical coaching, professional development programmes and clinical supervision.
Guest Lecturing
Build a professionally responsive, trauma-informed, and resilient speech and language therapy workforce of the future through 21st century compassionate and collaborative pedagogy.
Therapeutic Care
Trusted specialist therapy for feeding, swallowing and communication difficulties in infants, children and adults. Delivered with kindness, love and authentic healing presence.
Mel’s teaching is like the best CBT you can have. I reflected and learnt so much about the clinician I want to be.
Student SLT
Mel’s like a Disney princess. She comes in and helps you believe that everything is going to be ok again. She brings hope.
Family of stroke client
Mel believed in me more than anyone. She's not a therapist, she's a wonder woman who has true faith and belief in these children.
Mother of NICU baby
Mel’s dedication to her patients truly shines through. I don’t think I’ve ever learnt more from someone in such a short period of time.
Speech & language therapist
About Mel
Hi, I'm Mel Peck, clinical specialist speech & language therapist, educator, leader, best-selling author and the founder of Mel's Tiny Talkers.
And if someone asked me what I’d lay everything on the line for it would be speech and language therapy every time.
Because after twenty years in clinical practice, I remain utterly passionate and committed to my profession and those we care for.
But within a burgeoning healthcare system we are a workforce on the brink of overwhelm and burn out, and mid pandemic I decided enough was enough.
I felt called to create the change I wanted to see for the profession I love.
By dedicating time to both professional and personal growth, I know we can create expansive ripples of positive, compassionate change by finding momentum collectively.
And I want to share that with you.
Founded on human centered attributes of connection, compassionate presence and creative collaboration we can discover long-lasting confidence.
Become the change you want to see.
BSc (Hons) Speech and Language Therapy
A 20 year clinical career
I’ve been lucky enough to work all over the world with clients of all ages. And I am proud to be a lifespan dysphagia and acquired communication specialist.
Career highlights include holding the clinical lead role for paediatric and neonatal SLT at the Royal London Children’s Hospital, re-establishing adult SLT services for The States of Guernsey, and collaborating with the London Symphony Orchestra using music as a medium for education. Watch here
My career has also included substantive specialist roles in stroke and progressive neurology at Ipswich Hospital, St James Hospital, Dublin, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney and paediatric oncology and brain injury at Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge.
My postgraduate training includes Huckabee dysphagia management, McNeil Dysphagia Therapy, and Winstock paediatric eating, drinking and sensory feeding difficulties. Along with Baylour Infant and Neonatal and Langmore fibre optic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing (FEES), Bayley’s Scales of Infant and Toddler Development and Brazleton Newborn Behavioural Observation certfication.
I have contributed multiple research abstracts to the UK Swallowing and Research Group and International Paediatric Brain Injury Society. And I led the co-development and publication of SLT Therapy Outcome Measures. Buy a copy here
I am also a regular guest lecturer at London City University teaching post graduate lifepsan dysphagia and neuroplasticity.
In 2020 I founded Mel’s Tiny Talkers to offer a greatly needed new learning experience for clinicians working with infants and children with feeding and swallowing difficulties.
In 2021 I was the first SLT globally to complete the Trauma Informed Professional™ certification and in 2023 I completed my masters studies in evolutionary and developmental psychology at St Andrews University.
In 2024 I became an international best-selling author alongside eight other inspiring women as part of a co-authored published book “Awakened Leaders”. Buy your copy here
Currently living in Suffolk, I’m surrounded by loving friends and family and supported by a global sisterhood of compassionate leaders.
Clinically You
Bespoke online coaching and professional development programmes that go beyond theory and skills to help you thrive both professionally and personally.
Clinically You
Work Your Light
SLT Professional Development Programme (3 months)
A deeply thought provoking and reflective programme connecting you to the origins of mind and underpinning neuroscience of our work and how to transform this into compassionate and collaborative care.
Interactive teaching and coaching study days with group reflection sessions guide you to re-focus, re-energise and re-imagine complete clarity and confidence in your clinical decision-making.
Designed for any SLT ready to take their clinical practice to the next level. And intentionally create long-lasting work-life balance to do what you love.
Clinically You
From NICU to Home
Clinical Consulting Services
Bespoke clinical consulting packages to support clinicians and teams establishing and delivering SLT pathways for preterm infants from NICU to Home.
Collaboratively creating strategic vision, sustainable structures, systems and tangible service outcomes within a framework of trauma informed age-appropriate care.
Bringing 20 years of clinical and managerial experience in designing and establishing services, writing business cases, charity funding bids and clinical expertise so you and your team can confidently step forward to transform lives.
Clinically You
Ultimate Infant Feeding
Neonatal and Infant Feeding Programme (3 months)
A transformative programme that guides you through a trauma-informed approach to neuroscientific theory, family-centred care and evidence-based therapeutic feeding interventions.
Combining a tried and tested framework aligned with RCSLT Level C Neonatal Competencies, reflective coaching modules and clinical supervision ensure embedded learning and intentional change in practice.
Designed for SLTs at any stage of their career wanting to confidently offer exceptional care and feeding intervention to under ones.
Clinically You
Simply Supervision
1:1 and Team Clinical Supervision Services
Trusted 1:1, team and small group clinical supervision services for SLTs.
Specialising in:
- Dysphagia (neonatal, paediatric and adult)
- Speech sound development
- Acquired communication difficulties (paediatric and adult)
- Progressive neurological conditions (adult)
Get in touch to discover the clinical supervision that suits your needs.
Mel’s Tiny Talkers
Speech & Language Therapy Services
Are you ready to become a professionally responsive, trauma-informed, and confident clinician, who leads and lives your life through what you love doing?
Contact Mel today
melstinytalkers@gmail.com
Mel’s Tiny Talkers 2024