Speech and Language Audit

Speech and Language Audit Tool

Our Speech and Language Audit Tool enables primary schools to evaluate level of knowledge and skill of their staff in supporting pupils with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN) and assess the efficacy of their communication and environment.

The most effective way for schools to enable all students to reach their full potential is to follow a whole school approach.

The Speech & Language Link whole school approach to SLCN ensures that the needs of every child (however mild) are identified and supported as early as possible.

Our packages enable this by providing schools with assessments and interventions for your students and training for your staff so that they are equipped to recognise and support SLCN in the classroom.

Our Speech and Language Audit Tool allows primary schools to evaluate the level of knowledge and skills of their staff in supporting pupils with SLCN via a set of questionnaires. By the end of the audit, you will have individual and overall scores across three areas – Knowledge, Communication and Environment – and will be provided with a tailored action plan to help you to develop your staff’s skills and your whole school approach to SLCN.

The Speech and Language Audit

Step 1 - Teaching Staff Audit

Please note that our Speech and Language Audit Tool is currently only suitable for primary schools.

The first step of our audit is the teaching staff questionnaire.

Once downloaded, the questionnaire should be given to each member of staff who works directly with pupils, either in the classroom or in small group interventions.

The questionnaire takes around 10 minutes to complete and must be completed anonymously.

The questions will require your staff to reflect on three key areas:

Their knowledge of speech, language and communication needs (SLCN)
Their views on your school’s communication
Their views on your school’s environment

By scoring their own questionnaire, staff will gain insight into their own strengths and development needs.

Teaching Staff Questionnaire

Step 2 - Generate Your Plan

Once you have collected the completed Teaching Staff Questionnaires, enter the scores for each member of staff into our Audit Analysis Tool, via the link below.

You need to enter each staff members’ score for Knowledge, Communication and Environment into a new row.

Once all data has been entered, click on ‘complete’.

A tailored action plan will be generated with our recommendations for how your school can develop your staff’s skills and your whole school approach to speech, language and communication needs (SLCN).

Please note that this website will not store your responses if you close, refresh or navigate away from this page. Enter all your responses at once and remember not to close the page until your results have been processed.

Access the Audit Analysis Tool

Step 3 - Implement Your Action Plan

Congratulations on completing your speech, language & communication needs (SLCN) audit! Now, it’s time to implement your tailored action plan.

You can find an interpretation of your school’s results at the top of the document, which will tell you a little about your school’s strengths with regard to SLCN provision as well as guidance for development.

Read through the plan to find specific suggestions for developing a communication friendly environment in your school.

Your action plan may suggest that you consult your wider school community to find out more about how non-teaching colleagues, parents and pupils feel about your approach to SLCN. You can download supplementary questionnaires below.

Non Teaching Staff – Audit Tool

Pupil Audit Tool

Parent Audit Tool