Bridging 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...
Read moreUniversal Communication Aids for Emotional Literacy
When was the last time you had a tantrum in the supermarket?! As adults, we rarely fly off the handle and create a scene! We have...
Read moreIntroducing Universal Communication Aids Into Your Classroom
It can be difficult to implement communication aids in the classroom for a number of reasons. Staff can be worried about the impact of singling...
Read moreRaising awareness for Developmental Language Disorder (DLD)
The term Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) was launched in 2017, with the first awareness day taking place quickly afterwards. Tomorrow is this year’s DLD Awareness...
Read moreDevelopmental Language Disorder in 2020
Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) is a diagnostic term which was first launched in 2017 to describe severe and long-term language difficulties which are not related...
Read moreEnsuring children with SLCN are included in the new RSE curriculum
From this month onwards, relationships education is compulsory in all primary schools in England, relationships and sex education is compulsory in all secondary schools, and...
Read moreThe Ultimate Guide to SLCN
Last summer, my colleague Sophie and I started writing an eBook for school staff on supporting children with SLCN. The context for writing this was...
Read moreDo exclusions represent our subconscious bias?
During lockdown, while working from home, I listened to a brilliant podcast from the SENDcast talking about exclusion in our schools. The question being asked…...
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