Opening Doors SALT

19/10/2018

Today is Developmental Language Disorder awareness day. This term refers to individuals who have severe language problems that effect functioning in every day life and educational progress. This disorder can often be undiagnosed and can masquerade as noncompliance, rudeness or anxiety.

19/10/2018

Raising Awareness of Developmental Language Disorder

11/10/2018

14/07/2018

If you’re a school, particularly with a high proportion of marginalised young people, consider reading this article. School SENCOs reported that they would continue to commission SLT input and would recommend the model to others. Benefits reported from teacher and SLT (the same therapist) collaboration.

Many speech and language therapy (SLT) services have limited capacity for providing school-based input. Some offer commissioned SLT input, to enhance the servic...

13/07/2018

Language is a fundamental life skill for children. It directly impacts on their ability to learn, to develop friendships and on their life chances.

If we want to address social mobility, we must concentrate on developing young children's speech and language skills

19/06/2018

Transitioning to secondary school can be very difficult for some pupils.

16/06/2018

Approximately 60% of young offenders have unidentified language difficulties, they are told they have to ‘make reparation‘ but they don’t know what that means.

Young offenders with communication problems and at risk of falling deeper into criminality are being given a voice

15/06/2018

Talking with your child is really important, back and forth conversational turns have been found to be associated with brain development. Learning through social engagement and emotional bonding.

A simple change in the way you communicate can boost your child's cognitive development.

15/06/2018

Developing language and communication is first on foundation for literacy

28/04/2018

I often use this resource to assess and develop the verbal reasoning skills and abstract language of primary aged children who struggle to understand what is said to them.

12/04/2018

Verbs are important for early language development because they allow children to start building sentences. Some children find it hard to acquire verbs. Just a few resources to help young children......

12/04/2018

Developmental language disorder, the most common childhood condition you’ve never heard of

Professor Courtenay Norbury debunks some myths about children with this common but poorly understood condition