with Peter Just, Royal College of Speech and Labguage Therapists Last November we joined with a coalition of more than a hundred other SEND-related organisations to back a #SENDintheSpecialists campaign …
with Amy Loxley, Lead Speech and Language Advisor for I CAN, One of the major criticisms of the SEND Review is its silence about the revolution in SEND teacher training …
With Melanie Cross, Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists One of the most common elements of additional needs is speech, language and communication needs (SLCN). If a child also …
with Caroline Wright, Policy Adviser at the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists In the first lockdown, thousands of children overnight lost the external therapy input such as speech …
With Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists chief executive, Kamini Gadhok MBE, and Caroline Wright, policy adviser for children and young people in England Ask any parent about the …
Speech, language and communication is fundamental to children’s development. Children with underdeveloped SLCN skills (which is more common that you might think) can neither learn or achieve as well as …
Recently, a review was published by the children’s communications charity, I CAN and Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists to see what improvements had been made a decade after the …
The speech therapy process is very much a collaborative one. Even if your child is lucky enough to get regular speech therapy sessions, that’s still only half-an-hour or an hour …
We’ve covered the Bercow: Ten Years On review last year, when Barney looked at its recommendations a decade ago and what became of them. Today, we are really pleased to have …
I always like to try and talk to my son about what he has done at school that day. His normal response is “things and stuff”, unless something very specific …
Elizabeth and I were recently contacted by Jessica Kingsley publishers, asking us to review a new book. When I saw that the subject of the book was Lego and language …
A specialist speech and language teacher in Lincolnshire has launched a petition calling on the government to include Speech, Language and Communication Needs (SLCN) as part of any initial teacher training package. …
The children’s communication charity, ICAN and the Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists have announced a review of John Bercow’s Report on services for children and young people with speech, language …
If you are concerned about any aspect of your child’s development, it can be difficult to know where to turn for advice. How can you know whether you are right …
Our most popular posts on Speech Blog UK tend to be the ones about speech sounds. It is an area that schools and parents feel unqualified to tackle alone – …
One of the questions you are likely to be asked if your child is assessed by a speech and language therapist is, “has their hearing been tested?” The link between …
Tania’s note: Malcolm has escaped from the usual Friday columnist slot to reflect on a wonderful awards ceremony that he and I attended last week and at which he was …
Each profession has their own set of words and acronyms that we all understand, but it easy to forget that not everybody does! As Speech Therapists we talk about diadochokinetic …
I am delighted to introduce today’s guest post (and giveaway) from Shona Crichton. As a mum of a child with speech, language and communication needs, I love the work of …
“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place”. – George Bernard Shaw Communication is a hugely complex thing. The more I think about how …
