Developmental 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…...
Read moreDevelopmental Verbal Dyspraxia
Developmental Verbal Dyspraxia (DVD), also known as Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) is a motor speech disorder and it is a subgroup of the diagnostic...
Read moreLooking forward to settling in
We’re on the brink of the summer holidays – in fact, at the time of writing, some schools will already have broken up – but...
Read moreTeach children to be successful communicators – staying safe
In the coming days school staff will be facing possibly the biggest challenge of their careers – ever. Like almost everyone, they have spent large amounts...
Read moreEmbedding Sensory Strategies into Daily Life
You may have heard of the term sensory diet. Typically, this is a list of sensory strategies to carry out with a child throughout the...
Read moreADHD and Me
Senior Speech and Language Therapy Technical Instructor and founder of Chatterpack (a voluntary-run, special education needs and disabilities hub) Claire Ryan talks about her own...
Read moreWorking with Voice – Part 2: Supporting Our Voice
In Part 1, we explained what we mean by voice, how voice is produced and how to support children who are having voice difficulties. In...
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