- 90 pages
- English
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Supporting Children with Speech and Language Difficulties
About This Book
Completely revised and updated in light of the new SEND 2014 Code of Practice, this new edition describes the different types of difficulties experienced by pupils with speech, language and communication needs. It will help teachers and other professionals to feel more confident by providing expert guidance and practical strategies, and as a professional development tool, will also encourage outstanding practice by suggesting ideas and materials for in-house training sessions. The wide-ranging and accessible chapters explore topics including:
- Listening skills
- Phonological awareness
- Comprehension of language
- Activities for circle time
- Working with parents.
Featuring useful checklists, templates and photocopiable resources, this practical resource contains a wealth of valuable advice and tried-and-tested strategies for identifying children and young people with speech, language and communication needs, ensuring they have the support they need to make exceptional progress.
Frequently asked questions
Information
1 Introduction
What is a speech, language or communication difficulty?
- Some children may have difficulty using certain sounds in words and can be unintelligible when they talk.
- Others have difficulty understanding words. Their vocabulary is small and they find gaining and remembering words extremely hard. These children need a lot of help extending their vocabulary, for example in school with subjects such as history and science, which have many specialist words.
- Some children have severe problems with grammar. For example, they might not be aware of the âedâ marker at the end of a regular verb. As a result they would describe something that happened in the past as in the present tense.
- Others have difficulty coping with the order of words. A sentence such as âthe boy was pushed by the girlâ may be interpreted as âthe girl was pushed by the boyâ.
- Some children have none of the above difficulties. They can pronounce words clearly, learn and remember new words and are able to put them in the right order using the correct grammar. Their difficulty lies in understanding or using words which express abstract ideas. Concepts such as time and distance hold little or no meaning. Their language is at a very literal level and they often do not see hidden meanings or implications.
- Language difficulties can affect childrenâs ability to read and write. For example, if children are not perceiving sounds accurately they wonât be able to reproduce them in spoken or written form.
- We use language to form relationships with others. Some youngsters with language difficulties find building friendships very difficult.
2 Inclusion in education
- Communication and interaction
- Cognition and learning
- Social, mental and emotional health
- Sensory and/or physical.
Communication and interaction
- Inclusion recognises that all children have different abilities and experiences and seeks to value and gain from these differences. It is not about expecting or trying to make everyone the same or behave in the same way.
- Inclusion in education involves the process of increasing the participation of students in, and reducing their exclusion from, the cultures, curricula and communities of local schools.
- Inclusion involves restructuring the cultures, policies and practices in schools so that they respond to the diversity of students in their locality.
- Inclusion is concerned with the learning and participation of all students vulnerable to exclusionary pressures, not only those with impairments or those who are categorised as having âspecial educational needs.â
- Inclusion is concerned with improving schools for staff as well as for students. A concern with overcoming barriers to the access and participation of particular students may reveal gaps in the attempts of a school to respond to diversity more generally.
- All students have a right to an education in their locality.
- Diversity is not viewed as a problem to overcome, but as a rich resource to support the learning of all.
- Inclusion is concerned with fostering mutually sustaining relationships between schools and communities.
- Inclusion in education is one aspect of inclusion in society.
- Everyone is made to feel welcome.
- Students help each other.
- Staff collaborate with each other.
- Staff and students treat one another with respect.
- There is a partnership between staff and parents/carers.
- All local communities are involved with the school.
- Staff and governors work well together.
- There are high expectations of all students.
- Everyone has a philosophy of inclusion.
- Students are equally valued.
- Staff seek to remove all barriers to learning and participation in school.
- The school strives to minimise discriminatory practices.
3 Flowchart: how can I help?
4 Attention, listening and memory skills
5 Attention control: developmental stages
Stage 1 During first year of life
Stage 2 Second year
Stage 3 Third year
Stage 4 Fourth year
Stage 5
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Inclusion in education
- 3 Flowchart: how can I help?
- 4 Attention, listening and memory skills
- 5 Attention control: development stages
- 6 General activities and strategies to develop attention and listening skills
- 7 Specific strategies to develop Attention Levels 1-5
- 8 Processing information in the classroom
- 9 How does a child process language?
- 10 Listening skills
- 11 Activities to improve listening ability
- 12 Listening and auditory memory
- 13 Phonological awareness
- 14 Teaching phonological awareness
- 15 Comprehension of language
- 16 Problems arising from comprehension difficulties
- 17 Elements of language
- 18 General strategies to help improve language comprehension
- 19 The use of visual supports to aid understanding
- 20 Expressive language (spoken)
- 21 Problems arising from expressive language difficulties
- 22 General strategies to help improve expressive language difficulties
- 23 Specific strategies to help develop expressive language skills
- 24 Social communication difficulties in children
- 25 General strategies to help children with social communication difficulties
- 26 Specific activities: Early Years and Key Stage 1
- 27 Specific activities: Key Stage 2
- 28 Circle time
- 29 Activities for circle time
- 30 Citizenship through circle time
- 31 Speech acquisition
- 32 Speech difficulties
- 33 Points to note when working with children with speech and language difficulties
- 34 Classroom strategies for helping children with speech difficulties
- 35 Language in the Early Years Foundation Stage
- 36 Strategies for developing spoken language
- 37 Language and Mathematics
- 38 The management of communication problems in the classroom
- 39 Pupils with speech, language and communication difficulties (SLCD) in secondary schools
- 40 Some general strategies for subject teachers
- 41 Secondary pupils with SLCD: Literacy
- 42 Subject teachers supporting pupils' reading
- 43 Students with SLCD accessing the curriculum
- 44 Supporting students with organisation
- 45 Learning plans
- 46 Sample learning plans
- 47 Support staff: their effective use by teachers
- 48 Support staff: initial and ongoing considerations
- 49 Support staff: guidelines for working with pupils
- 50 Working with parents
- 51 Planning for continuing professional development (CPD)
- 52 An outline for whole-school training on SLCD
- 53 What does SLCD mean for a child?
- 54 Evaluating and following up CPD
- Glossary
- Resources
- Appendix: good listening rules