More about Speech, Language and Communication Needs
According to the communication charity ICAN more than one million children in the UK have some kind of speech language and communication...
Archive: June 2014
What is Speech, Language & Communication Needs (SLCN)?
This is a term that is increasingly being used in the media and elsewhere to describe children who have difficulties communicating. Speech,...
What is Down’s syndrome?
Down’s syndrome, also known as Down syndrome, is a genetic condition that typically causes some level of learning disability and a...
A Call for More Support for People With Autism
As well as difficulties in building and maintaining relationships because of communication problems, a person with more severe autism can...
Teachers boost children’s communication abilities with a special intervention programme.
On the website of the communication charity I CAN Tarnia Townshend, deputy headteacher of Bidbury Infant School in Hampshire, reveals how...
Playful Sight Words Activity ideas
Early childhood teacher Christie Burnett, is offering 50 sight word activity ideas to help children with their automatic recall of high...
Secret Life of Babies
Learning to speak is one of, if not the most, complex process that humans master in their lifetime. The Secret Life of Babies was...
Could Your Child have Specific Language Impairment?
Is your child having a problem with language but with no other obvious difficulty in learning? There is a difficulty known as Specific...
June is MND Awareness Month.
Motor Neurone Disease Awareness Month takes place each June and its purpose is to help raise awareness of this disease
iPads – another tool in the box for speech and language therapists.
While technology sometimes has the ability to frustrate and exasperate, children with autism are embracing apps which are predictable and...
