SLCN

Efficacious information and intervention methods and support for children with Speech, Language, and Communication Needs; ensure that they can access the mainstream curriculum while also receiving personalised support.

  • Speech and language in a primary school: a whole-school approach
    Improving every pupil's speech and language skills opens up access to the curriculum. Find out how a school’s approach to SLCN is having an impact on all pupils
  • Using dialogic teaching to develop oracy
    How do you get your pupils speaking and listening? Assistant head Sacha Nelson describes how Parkwood Primary School has put talk at the heart of learning
  • Putting oracy at the heart of the curriculum
    Prepare your pupils to talk and you prepare them for tomorrow's world. Alison Thomas finds out how School 21 has improved the quality of teaching by adopting a structured oracy programme
  • Webinar: literacy and SLCN
    Children and young people cannot succeed in literacy without good oral language skills. Jean Gross CBE explains what SENCOs can do to help improve the speech, language and communication skills of the pupils in their school
  • Webinar: Maths and SLCN
    Speech, language and communication needs can have a negative impact on children’s attainment in maths.
  • Effective interventions for children with SLCN: what the latest research tells us
    There is a growing understanding that speech, language and communication are critical to every young person’s ability to get the most out of education and life. Sarah Squires looks at what new research findings tell us about the effectiveness of current therapy interventions