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Education Show 2012 preview
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(SEN articles)
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... The purpose of the Trust is to raise awareness of the importance of speech, language and communication across the children’s workforce, offering access to the best training and expertise to support all ...
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Created on 21 February 2012
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NICE guidance on diagnosing autism
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(SEN articles)
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... professionals in education and social care. Core members should include a paediatrician and/or child and adolescent psychiatrist, a speech and language therapist and a clinical and/or educational psychologist. ...
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Created on 20 February 2012
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A unique approach to dyslexia
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(SEN articles)
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... in the rather unusual position of being a newly qualified teacher and speech and language therapist, I clung ferociously to packaged assessments and interventions rather like a shipwrecked sailor might ...
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Created on 20 February 2012
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Language development test for toddlers
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(SEN news)
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The results of a new speech test suggest that a limited vocabulary at the age of two years can signal language development problems which persist into later life.
Scientists at the Bryn Mawr College ...
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Created on 20 February 2012
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The politics of Down syndrome
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(SEN articles)
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... more comprehensive support. However, while these schools may have a dedicated speech therapist, they may not have any specific expertise in DS. What’s more, the environment is often different to that in ...
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Created on 09 February 2012
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A helping hand
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(SEN articles)
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... computer languages to design and build assistive technology and special needs software. From those very sheds emerged rudimentary versions of word prediction software, text to speech routines, touch screen ...
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Created on 08 February 2012
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Special skills
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(SEN articles)
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... in 2010-11. Phase 1 of the IDP (2008-09) comprised two sets of continuing professional development (CPD) materials focusing on speech, language and communication needs (SLCN) and on dyslexia respectively. ...
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Created on 08 February 2012
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Gross warns of cuts to SLCN services
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(SEN news)
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The outgoing Communication Champion has cautioned that cuts to speech and language services and new commissioning procedures could cause greater hardship for children with communication needs. In a ...
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Created on 20 January 2012
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Not listening or not hearing?
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(SEN articles)
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... noises
poor speech and language ability
always speaking loudly
poor balance.
Effects of poor language skills
The consequences of poor language skills are many and various. They may affect: ...
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Created on 05 January 2012
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Focus on speech and language therapists
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(SEN articles)
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Alison Hodson takes a look at the work of speech and language therapists
Each September a number of pupils enter reception classes with identified speech, language and communication needs (SLCN). ...
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Created on 05 January 2012
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National Curriculum to focus on SLCN
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(SEN news)
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A report by the Expert Panel for the National Curriculum review has called for speech, language and communication to be a part of the curriculum throughout compulsory schooling for all subjects, rather ...
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Created on 31 December 2011
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Great expectations
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(SEN articles)
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... It is important that where a child with hydrocephalus appears very able in, for example, speech, assumptions are not automatically made about other skills or overall language ability. A child with hydrocephalus ...
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Created on 21 December 2011
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Show me the evidence
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(SEN articles)
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... as “centres of excellence” in autism education practice. Joint working with health professionals also emerged as a strong theme. Many schools work closely with or employ speech and language therapists ...
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Created on 21 December 2011
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Practically literate
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(SEN articles)
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Priya Desai shows how ideas from speech and language therapy can be used to help those struggling with literacy Many children with literacy difficulties or a diagnosis of dyslexia have associated ...
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Created on 05 December 2011
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A world of possibilities
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(SEN articles)
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... and care staff, you might see the speech and language therapist, physiotherapist, learning support assistants, technologists and others. The staff team will help you to put together your individual learning ...
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Created on 30 November 2011
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Dyslexia: more than just a label?
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(SEN articles)
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... reviews over the last few years, including Sir Jim Rose’s Review of dyslexia/SpLD, The Bercow Review on speech and language difficulties, The Lamb Inquiry on parental views and Sir Alan Steer’s Review ...
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Created on 25 November 2011
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Parenting under pressure: stress and the SEN parent
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(SEN articles)
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... clear she wasn’t getting that help....so I took our local authority to tribunal and won her a place at a residential school where there is one-to-one support and speech and language therapy. “The battle ...
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Created on 23 November 2011
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I Can heads up Early Language Development Programme
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(SEN news)
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... the skills and knowledge they need to support speech, language and communication development in young children. There will be a particular focus on children up to the age of two years old and their families ...
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Created on 07 November 2011
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Failure of the mainstream
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(SEN articles)
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Mother Amanda Strowger says that mainstream teachers just don't appreciate her child's needs As a baby, Zak didn’t reach the usual milestones that other children did and, as he got older, his speech ...
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Created on 28 October 2011
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Coming to terms with dyslexia
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(SEN articles)
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... speech and language, is bigger. And it tends to be wired up differently. Compare non-dyslexic and dyslexic brains using a functioning MRI scan and they “light up” in completely different ways when performing ...
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Created on 27 October 2011
