Issue 13, Page 10: From One TA to Another: Introducing a Buddy Bench to your School
Despite staff and parents making every effort to ensure school is a welcoming, stimulating and exciting environment for all pupils, school can be a lonely...
Read moreIssue 13, Page 4-5: Dyslexia And Speech And Language Difficulties – Is There A Connection?
Dyslexia – a learning difficulty affecting accurate and fluent word reading and spelling – is based in language. Its roots lie in phonology, the sounds in...
Read moreIssue 13, Page 3: Raising Awareness of DLD
What is DLD? Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) is a diagnosis given when a child or adult has difficulties talking and/or understanding language, where there is not...
Read moreIssue 12, Page 8-9: 5 Ways to support active engagement in your classroom… ‘Getting children addicted to learning!’
For many years, educators have spoken about how structuring activities to foster ‘engagement’ results in learners becoming self-motivated to interact with the content of lessons...
Read moreIssue 12, Page 11: Ask a Therapist
QUESTION: Have you got any advice for a pupil who does not listen or pay attention in their language group? Answer: This can be very frustrating...
Read moreIssue 12, Page 6: From One TA to Another: When the Worst Happens – A Case Study
Every 20 minutes a parent of dependent children dies in the UK (org) 42% of marriages in England and Wales end in divorce Over...
Read moreIssue 12, Page 4-5: Speech & Language Tips For Working With Children With A Cleft
Around 1 in 700 children in the UK are born with a cleft lip and/ or cleft palate. This happens when the two sides of...
Read moreIssue 12, Page 3: Selective Mutism vs. Reluctant Talker
It is important to differentiate between these two terms. Reluctance to talk is not a milder form of selective mutism (SM), on a continuum with...
Read moreIssue 14, Page 10: From One TA to Another: “I DON’T GET IT!”
Sound familiar? Here are my tips for helping all children get to grips with grammar. OK – so there are 70 different grammar terms in the...
Read moreIssue 11, Page 9: SLCN Glossary: Standard Scores and Percentiles – What are they?
In order to target help where it is needed, it is useful to be able to compare a child’s score on a language assessment with...
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