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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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Vocalization and babbling can be considered the earliest expression of language development [2]. Even crying is sometimes considered as a language [3] that represents […]

The webinars are available for anyone in the Education or Care fields – you can register for the distribution list here on our Eventbrite page.

We will send the monthly webinar to you on, or around, the 20th of […]

Impairments of social communication are seen as one of the essential diagnostic features of autism. However, they cannot be considered as primary characteristics because all the ‘communication symptoms’ appear lat […]

To communicate successfully children have to have a communication tool. We should introduce them to the systems of communication as soon as possible. The selection of a particular communication system should be […]

Studying for a speech and language therapy degree is demanding. It’s academically rigorous; I still quake at the thought of all those linguistics lectures I attended. I found them really hard going and shed m […]

On Mother’s day this year, all my “babies were back in the nest” for the weekend and I really enjoyed spending time with them.  One of the things that we did was to go for a walk in the woods together.  It wa […]

 With all things love in the air around February, I thought I would turn my attention to something that has been on my mind a lot recently…..  sex!   Well, before you get too shocked, I mean sex educa […]

It got me thinking about Down syndrome.  I have a close friend with a child with DS and she posted a photo of him on facebook recently along with the caption “celebrating differences”.  Then I realised that it is […]

However, it is necessary to distinguish between the natural sign languages used by the deaf community and the invented sign-based codes that are often used as teaching tools and that are not natural languages. […]

The advantage of this mode of communication is that it may cover several languages as it is not only visual but also a tactile (when touched), kinaesthetic (when moved), auditory (when tapped) and olfactory […]