Telephone: 01304 821526
Our school works to support and develop all children's speech, language and communication skills with guidance from our NHS link Speech & Language Therapist, Lizzie Wells, our school-employed Speech & Language Therapist, Sarah Hooper, and our Specialist Teachers. Your child may come into contact with Lizzie or Sarah within their classroom or around the school. The SENCos will have regular meetings with Lizzie & Sarah to discuss our school’s provision.
Lizzie Wells & Sarah Hooper, School Speech & Language Therapists
If you have any concerns about your child’s speech, language or communication skills, please speak to your child’s class teacher in the first instance.
If we have discussed a specific concern with you about your child’s speech, language or communication, or you have raised a concern, we will decide together whether to discuss this with our therapists and how best to support your child. You will be kept informed of any plans to support your child.
Universal Provision – All children have access to:
School policies and procedures will run alongside (including the Behaviour Policy) as well as quality first teaching and reasonable adjustments as stated in the Mainstream Core Standards
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Targeted Provision – All children have access to: (should they require it)
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Specialised Provision – For those that require it, there is access to:
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Speech, language & communication development and needs:
Developmental Language Disorder- https://speechandlanguage.org.uk/dld-educational-support/ video-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSUgNuowWaM
Autism- https://www.autism.org.uk/advice-and-guidance/what-is-autism
Strategies, techniques and therapy approaches:
Intensive Interaction- https://www.intensiveinteraction.org/find-out-more/ Video- How to do Intensive Interaction - the principles of the approach - YouTube
VERVE approach (parent-child interaction strategies)- http://www.keenacummins.co.uk/top_tips.html
Makaton Signing- https://makaton.org/TMC/TMC/About_Makaton/What_is_Makaton.aspx
Gestalt Language Processing- https://communicationdevelopmentcenter.com/
Augmentative & Alternative Communication (AAC)- https://www.callscotland.org.uk/information/communication-support-needs/what-is-aac/
Attention Autism- https://attentionautism.co.uk/attention-autism-programme/
Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS)- https://pecs-unitedkingdom.com/pecs/