SLCN training

All of our training courses can be delivered in your school or setting.  Please contact us to discuss your requirements.

Schools need to have purchased the resources direct from Speech and Language UK.

Early Talk Boost

This one-day programme is a targeted intervention aimed at 3-4 year old children who need help with talking and understanding words, helping to boost their language skills to narrow the gap between them and their peers. The programme aims to accelerate children’s progress in language and communication by an average of 6 months, after a nine-week intervention.

Talk Boost KS1

Talk boost KS1 (one day) is a targeted intervention for 4-7 year old children that need help with talking and understanding words, including children in reception classes. The programme is delivered in primary schools by classroom teachers and teaching assistants and provides a structured programme that boosts children’s progress in language and communication by an average of 9 - 18 months after a ten-week intervention.

Talk for Work

Talk for work (formerly called Talk about Talk Secondary) is an evidenced targeted intervention that helps students aged 14 to 18 with difficulties in talking and understanding words to be ready for the workplace. It can be used in both secondary schools and further education colleges.   The programme consists of a series of 13 fully planned one-hour lessons delivered by trained teaching or support staff.   Students who are selected to take part in the intervention will learn and practise the communication skills that support other ‘soft’ employability skills such as team working, time management and problem-solving.

Transition from preschool into the reception class can be an exciting time for children. However, those with C&I needs may find this time more challenging and will benefit from enhanced universal support to have a successful start at school. This briefing will provide primary school SENDCOs and reception class teachers with a range of strategies to support children with identified SLCN, as well as those whose needs may not yet have been formally identified.

Training objectives:

• Develop an understanding of how SLCN can present in the reception classroom
• Learn a range of strategies that support understanding, talk and interaction within the reception classroom.
• Learn about a range of strategies to support children with identified SLCN, as well as those whose needs may not yet have been formally identified

Sessions will run centrally in the summer term.

Speech and language support for 5-11s or 11-16s

A practical training course for those of you teaching or supporting children in primary schools, providing you with:

• A wealth of information and an opportunity to share experiences with other teachers and teaching assistants (TAs) working with children of the same age with similar communication challenges
• Practical advice and strategies which are easy to implement in the classroom and wider school or environment
• Language Builders for 5-11s or 11-16s - a practical resource containing an abundance of tips, ideas and strategies

Based on the Better Research Communication Programme research, and the Autism Education Trust’s 8 Key Principles, the audit will focus on the learning environment, adult language, strategies to develop independence, structure and routine, and pupil talk and interactions.  The learning walk will include a meeting to support action planning.

Developed as part of the Better Communication Research Programme to profile the oral language environment of the EYFS and KS1 classroom. The C&I Team can facilitate the completion of this audit and provide useful action planning for settings to move forward.

Suitable for primary and secondary SENDCos and teachers

Delivered jointly by advisors from the C&I and SEMH teams, this training will explore the links between language and behaviour, including looking in more detail at the language skills needed to support emotional regulation.  Participants will be introduced to tools to support identification of needs, and to using restorative approaches to support pupils with language and behaviour needs.

Suitable for primary SENDCos and teachers

This training will focus on the links between language and literacy development and will provide an introduction to approaches to support language for literacy including Colourful Semantics, vocabulary and narrative. The training will explore how these approaches can be used as part of whole class teaching, as well as supporting targeted approaches.

A series of 6 online sessions:

• Using visuals
• Using scaling to support self-regulation
• Supporting independence and organisation skills
• Supporting friendships and social interactions
• Supporting sensory needs
• Top tips to supporting behaviour and engagement