The Owl Centre was founded in Oxford in 2011 by Nicola Lathey, a top Speech and Language Therapist and author of the Small Talk series of speech-boosting books. Since then, it has developed in terms of the number of different services it offers and its geographical reach. It now covers much of the UK, having been enriched by new and talented therapists joining the team. However, from its small beginnings, the guiding ethos which underpins our approach has remained the same: