October 17, 2018

Are You Talking About Who I’m Talking About?

This year International Developmental Language Disorder Day falls on 19th October 2018. Raising awareness is all about making sure the topic is always in circulation...

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October 2, 2018

Developmental Language Disorder – The Voice of the Children and Young People

On 28th April 2018, NAPLIC (Professionals Supporting Communication and Language Development) held its annual conference in Birmingham, drawing a host of Speech and Language Therapists...

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September 17, 2018

Language and Communication in the revised Early Learning Goals

The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Statutory Framework was revised in June this year by the Department for Education (DfE), with redrafted Early Learning Goals. The...

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September 14, 2018

National Teaching Assistant Day Friday 14th September

Celebrating Teaching Assistants, Learning Support assistants, Cover Supervisors and Learning Mentors across England and Wales: National Teaching Assistant Day Friday 14th September. According to the event’s website ‘96% of headteachers believe TAs add...

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August 31, 2018

Building a Solid Foundation for Literacy

Literacy, while a seemingly innocuous (although incredibly important) topic, stirs up fierce debate across the globe when it comes to which approach we should be...

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August 28, 2018

Are EAL Descriptors useful for our bilingual children?

‘Put simply, bilingualism is the ability to use two languages’ (Franson, 2007). Chin and Wigglesworth (2007) state that it is rare to find an individual...

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August 1, 2018

The impact of ‘Fake News’ on children with SLCN

The term ‘fake news’ has been in the media frequently in the last year, and continues to rear its ugly head, particularly on social media....

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July 24, 2018

Working on Speech Sounds – A Case Study

Children develop their full range of speech sounds over time - it is normal for very young children to make errors as they develop and...

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March 29, 2018

Bercow 10 Years On – Part 2

On March 20th 2018, findings were published from an independent review into services for children and young people with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN),...

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March 23, 2018

How to use Task Management Boards

Classroom resources for supporting SLCN are essential for teachers, and many are supplied as part of our SLCN support packages. Today, we are going to...

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