With Michelle Windridge, National Education Lead for School-Based Early Years, Twinkl Remember Covid? Our coverage during the pandemic helped thousands of families, teachers, people in the SEND sector and those …
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 Sandra Butcher, Chief Executive of The National Organisation for FASD and Brian Roberts, consultant and former Virtual School Head We assume that most women know that drinking alcohol in …
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 …
**update: Closing date now 25th January! ** Get nominating!** As we have the past two years, we are again helping to promote the Speech and Communication Shine a Light Awards! Chris …
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 …
Illuminating great practice for children and young people with SEND is something we love to do at SNJ. Last year I was delighted to attend the Shine A Light Awards, that …
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 …
