April 4, 2024

Universal teaching approaches for secondary classrooms

By Natalie Fogden and Becky Rothwell, SEND Advisers at HFL Education With increased language demands across the curriculum, secondary school students with speech, language and...

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March 15, 2024

How schools can use their Pupil Premium budgets to boost reading comprehension

We know that school leaders and teaching staff are passionate about providing every pupil with the support and resources they need to succeed academically and...

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March 7, 2024

Small group language intervention: tips for successful generalisation

Language groups are an opportunity for children with language and communication needs to participate in activities focused on developing their language and communication skills. They...

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March 1, 2024

Harmonizing potential: Enriching speech, language, and communication through the young voices choir and inclusion strategies for children with SLCN

How much do you know about Young Voices? The world's largest school choir group, performing year on year in venues all over the world, has...

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February 1, 2024

The mystery of the missing bench

When I picked up my 7-year-old daughter from school on Friday I asked about her day, expecting to hear about what she’d had for lunch....

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January 8, 2024

Insufficient Discussion

The Royal College of Speech and Language Therapist’s (RCSLT) submission to the Centre for Social Justice’s report Two Nations: The State of Poverty in the...

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January 4, 2024

A personal experience of education after stroke

By Katherine Buckeridge (Specialist Speech and Language Therapist in Paediatric Neurology) and Jessica Cannons (Childhood Stroke Survivor) Childhood Stroke When you hear the word stroke, the image...

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November 23, 2023

Putting children at the heart: A call to action for a better tomorrow

In November 2023, a report titled ‘Children at the Table: A roadmap for putting children at the heart of the next Government’ was published by...

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November 2, 2023

Thinking about winking

The dictionary definition for ‘wink’ is 'to close and open one eye quickly, typically to indicate that something is a joke or a secret or...

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September 20, 2023

“People don’t get me”

It’s positive to see that speech, language and communication needs (SLCN) are becoming more talked about. Last year, schools assessed 230,000 pupils using Speech Link and...

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