with Gillian Rudd, speech and language therapist and senior lecturer at Birmingham City University, Speech, language and communication needs (SLCN) are the most common issues experienced by children, especially in …
by Tracy Gillett, Director of Education, Condover College Today is the final article in our series looking at the best of Post-16 SEND education innovation, featuring winners of the Natspec …
Senior Specialist Speech and Language Therapist, Jessie Luckins via Speech and Language UK Today, our post is from contributors Speech and Language UK comes from Senior Specialist Speech and Language …
We’re delighted that charity, Speech and Language UK has joined us as a regular columnist to discuss speech, language and communication issues. Today’s column is from Amy Loxley, a Lead …
by Amy Loxley is a Lead Speech and Language Advisor for Speech and Language UK. When you’re worried about your child’s progress in speech and communication, you usually only have …
By Alyson Mountjoy founder and Chair of APD Support UK What is a hearing problem that affects people who may have perfect hearing, especially if they are autistic or have dyslexia? …
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 …
Oral language is a term I became familiar with in my later years of teaching. Partly because I worked with speech and language therapists as head of a speech and …
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 …
