the first stop for information on children’s communication
 This book is aimed at anyone providing a service to children under five and their families such as local authorities, children’s centres and children’s groups. It ensures best practice in supporting young children’s speech, language and communication development by helping practitioners to reflect on their practice and to measure outcomes.
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 A website that is a searchable library of ideas and resources, organised by target, and contributed by a community of therapists
Price: £0.00
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 Helps partners create optimum conditions for learning through their resources and training on how to create Communication Friendly Spaces
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 We have developed a booklet for people who are training to become teachers to give advice and guidance on children's communication skills. Let's Talk About It includes information on:
• The importance of communication
• The impact that speech, language and communication needs (SLCN) can have for children and young people on learning and attainment, and on social, emotional development and behaviour
• How teachers can better identify children with SLCN and through making communication a priority, work more affectively with all children in their classroom
• Signposts trainees to a range of further information sources
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 This invaluable and practical book provides detailed advice and activities to promote the speaking and listening skills of all children aged between 2 and 6 years. It has been widely used across thousands of settings and enables professionals and parents to understand the communication difficulties children experience. It gives relevant advice and is full of lots of ideas to support children with a wide range of speech and language difficulties
Amongst the topics covered are:
Developing play for language
Encouraging appropriate adult-child interaction
The development of attention levels
Helping children develop their understanding of language andverbal reasoning
Developing social skills through play
Helping pre-school children with autistic spectrum disorder
Helping children develop phonological awareness
Helping children with unclear speech
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 This new and practical book provides detailed advice and activities to promote the speaking and listening of babies and young children. It has been carefully written to tie in with the EYFS and the two year review. It is full of information about communication development, typical developmental milestones, observation schedules to support your assessment, planning and monitoring of children’s progress and simple, fun ideas which are easy to implement in everyday situations.
Amongst the topics covered are:
What is communication?
Encouraging appropriate adult-child interaction
Developing play for language
Provide child friendly environments to support attention and listening
Helping children develop their understanding of language and verbal reasoning
Encouraging children to talk and adults to listen!
Sharing books, using rhymes to develop language and early literacy
Working with parents.
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 This excellent resource makes this complex area of language development accessible to non-specialist staff. fAll those working in the field will appreciate the clear explanations and practical support and advice for those working and living with children at the pre-intentional and intentional stages of communication as far as beginning to use first words. The book explores a wide range of issues concerning children who have little or no means of expressing themselves verbally.
Language Builders for Complex Needs provides ideas for assessment and recording progress as well as detailed advice and practical activities. It is written for speech and language therapists, teachers, teaching assistants, pre-school practitioners and parents.
The book examines the characteristic communication skills, the interaction required and the thinking and play skills that need nurturing at each of the following stages:
Pre-Intentional Communication.
Being able to anticipate events.
Intentional Communication.
It also considers:
The link between play and language.
Total Communication – signs, symbols, Communication Passports, and briefly, Augmentative and Alternative Communication.
Using first words, ideas and phrases.
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 Communication Builders for AAC provides comprehensive information about the assessment and use of the whole range of AAC options. Andrea Kirton, co-author, is a highly specialist speech and language therapist but she writes this book in a style which makes this important information accessible to education practitioners, parents, carers, SLTs. It is the core reading material for the accredited course Supporting Adults and Children using AAC.
It’s a one-stop-shop to AAC!
Contents:
Chapter 1: What is AAC (Alternative and Augmentative Communication)?
Why use AAC?
What Does AAC Include?
Access Methods
The AAC Team
Chapter 2: Assessment
Who might benefit from AAC?
Cause and effect skills
Social Communication Skills
Symbolic Understanding
Understanding of Spoken Language
The expressive-receptive gap
Visual SkillsAccess Method
Tools for Assessment
AAC Profile and Action Plan
Definition of Communicative Competence for AAC users (Janice Light, 1989)
Social Networks (Sarah Blackstone and Mary Hunt Berg, 2003)
Means, Reasons and Opportunities (Della Money and Sue Thurman, 1994)
Chapter 3: Unaided Communication
What is Unaided Communication?
Assessing Unaided Methods of Communication
Observation Schedule for assessing Unaided Communication Methods
Developing Unaided Communication Skills
Chapter 4: Low Tech Communication Aids
Types of Low Tech AAC systems
Aspects of Assessment for Low Tech AAC
Access
Vocabulary/Language
Social Use
Design Issues
The Next Step – Activities to support and develop use of the Low Tech AAC system
Cause and effect with people (Communicative Intent)
Requesting item/indicating choice
Participation in a social activity
General Conversation
Chapter 5: High Tech Communication aids
Types of High Tech Communication Systems
Assessment for a High Tech System
Access
Vocabulary/Language
Social Use
Design Issues
The Next Step - Activities to support and develop use of the High Tech AAC system
Linguistic Skills
Social Skills
Price: £22.00
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 Early Years Based Information Carrying Word Pack is a rich resource of beautiful pictures and interesting activities to promote the vocabulary, speaking and listening of a wide range of children through the principle of Information Carrying Words.
For those unfamiliar with Information Carrying Words, the concept provides a structured framework which helps children increase the amount of information they can remember. At the same time EYBIC will develop their knowledge and language of everyday topics including:
Ourselves
Food
Clothing
Toys
Animals
Home
The resource includes:
Careful explanations about Information Carrying Words and how to use the resource
Illustrations to print in black and white or colour
Home Activities
Vocabulary checklists to monitor progress
A two and a half hour training session for parents and early years practitioners, which includes teaching notes, a PowerPoint presentation and handouts.
EYBIC Word Pack will help to improve:
Understanding of spoken language
Listening and attention
Auditory sequential memory
Vocabulary development
Expressive language
Social communication skills
EYBIC Word Pack supports Early Learning Goals.
EYBIC Word Pack is very useful for children learning additional languages.
EYBIC Word Pack helps parents, early years practitioners and speech and language therapists to work together to promote children’s language and communication skills.
Price: £35.00
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 Information about Makaton Training for parents, carers and professionals.
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