‘Between Brains’: Motivating Tweens and Teens with SLCN
Supporting adolescents with SLCN as they move into KS3 is crucial, to ensure progress continues and the vital skills required for all aspects of learning...
Read moreSpeak up with Speech and Language Link
What a week of focus on children and young people’s speech, language and communication skills! Last week saw the publishing of an important report looking at...
Read moreThe impact of Covid-19 on teachers’ voice
A teacher’s voice is their most important tool; for engaging and motivating pupils, delivering important information clearly, supporting social and emotional development, and managing behaviour. Due...
Read moreHow working from home has changed our posture
Over the last 12 months I, like many others have had to change the way I work and one of the biggest downsides of this...
Read moreEEF Blog: Learning recovery and the role of diagnostic assessment – a response by Speech and Language Link
In a recent blog, the EEF’s national content manager, Alex Quigley, discussed the important role of diagnostic assessment in supporting pupils as they return to...
Read moreReturning to school and looking towards recovery
With the roadmap for easing lockdown laid out in front of us and vaccines being rolled out across the country, it is starting to feel...
Read moreYou can’t read hieroglyphics if you don’t understand Egyptian!
Over the Christmas holidays, during the flurry of parcels being delivered to my house, I received a parcel that I had not ordered myself that...
Read moreBridging the Word Gap at Transition: The Oxford Language Report – a response by Speech and Language Link
A recent report published by the Centre for Education and Youth, alongside Oxford University Press, highlights concern about pupils’ poor vocabulary development and the impact...
Read moreHow to choose an SLCN intervention for your school
Speech, language and communication skills underpin children’s ability to learn and have a direct impact on their academic and life outcomes. Up to 50% of...
Read moreDo you get me?
How many times have you been lost in a conversation, or not heard what someone is saying, because they speak too quietly, because a loud...
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