My beautiful daughters, Sophie and Katie, were born with severe motor and verbal, and oral dyspraxia. After years of speech and language therapies, we've had very little success. Both girls find communication extremely difficult as they only have a vocabulary of approximately twenty words. This is incredibly frustrating for them and it would be absolutely amazing if there were a way to increase their vocabulary and enable them to speak.

They have a voice and it deserves to be heard. It would be simply mind blowing to hear them say someone's name or to ask for something to eat. Instead, all they can do is sign in a limited way and make sounds that sometimes come close to speech.

After years of searching, we've found an amazing form of therapy that encorporates both light and sound stimuli over the course of ten days. They theorise that those with limited speech have neurological pathways that are entangled and therefore wired incorrectly. If this is the case, both Sophie and Katie could actually be speaking to us , but the words simply come out as unintelligible sounds due to the muscles used for speech being misaligned.

If the therapy is successful, my girls would be able to speak to us for the first time. Even if we were to hear them say our names or be able to form words to tell us whether they're happy or sad.

Find out more about the National Light and Sound Therapy Centre.