15 minute ideas for home: Musical Instruments

Another idea to encourage attention and listening skills in children. What you need: a selection of different musical instruments, e.g. bells, shaker, drum, whistle, keyboard etc. (I personally use a Chinese drum shaker. If you don’t... Read more

Tips and activities to support your child’s speech, language and communication needs when in lockdown

Things are uncertain and unsettling right now with the Covid-19 pandemic affecting almost every aspect of our daily lives. Most educational settings, if not all, will have made the shift to home-based learning. Change can be stressful for... Read more

Teletherapy

As schools, colleges and clinics begin to shut down around the world in response to the COVID-19 crisis, administrators are frantically trying to come up with alternative solutions. Virtual platforms are rapidly replacing classrooms. Many... Read more

Activity to Develop Attention and Listening Skills

Following on from our previous post, here’s another idea you can do with your little ones in as little as 15 minutes! This activity was taken from EYBIC Word Pack from Elklan. Use symbols (visual timetable) to show the child what... Read more

Supporting Students with Speech, Language and Communication Needs (SLCN): Classroom strategies for teachers and LSA’s

Speech, language and communication are skills that are crucial to all areas of learning, as well as mental health and social participation. In 2008 the Bercow Report highlighted the need to implement strategic system-wide approaches to... Read more

What health professionals need to know about the SEND Code of Practice 2015

Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), local authorities and health professionals must work together to provide co-ordinated services to support children and young people with SEND. Clinicians and therapists already provide health... Read more

What every parent needs to know about the SEND Code of Practice 2015

Section 19 of the Children and Families Act 2014 makes clear that local authorities, in carrying out their functions under the Act in relation to disabled children and young people and those with special educational needs (SEN), must have... Read more

Major review on SEND announced

On the 6th September the DfE announced they were going to carry out a major review of SEND.  The review aims to improve the services available to families who need support, equip staff in schools and colleges to... Read more

All teachers need to know about the SEND Code of Practice 2015

The Code of Practice provides statutory guidance on duties, policies and procedures relating to Part 3 of the Children and Families Act 2014 and associated regulations and applies to England. It relates to children and young people... Read more

What you need to know about the CELF-5 Metalinguistics assessment

What is the CELF-5M for and how is it different to the CELF-5? It is used to identify students of 9-21 years of age who have not acquired the expected levels of language competence and metalinguistic ability for their age. To put it... Read more