Singing, Signing and Storytime with Helen

Keeping with expressive language, here's some ideas to expand in single words 🗣️

This is so important!! Everyone has the right to communicate their thoughts and feelings...

Hello! I am looking to run some parent/child groups looking at different aspects of communication such as speech intelligibility, signing, social interaction and friendships.

Is this be something that would interest you?

2021 Speakers Category: Therapeutic My Aim is to invite you into our Neurodiverse Family, giving a positive versus negative intake on how we and others communicate. Looking broadly into perception, language, expectations and social implications. Encouraging a better understanding of your own Family dynamics and how we can move forward...

The countdown is on.... this course starts tomorrow and I want you to be there. Don't miss out on this opportunity. There are still a few spaces left. Grab your seat while you can.

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Calling all Teachers, Learning Assistants and ASNs….. is this you?
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If you are a teacher or a learning assistant in a mainstream classroom, then you will have had that really quiet child, let’s call him ‘Johnny,’ he sits and seems to get on with the work, however he rarely answers or asks questions in class and doesn’t seem to make friends easily. You worry that he may not understand as he hands in either uncompleted or incorrect work consistently.
Unfortunately for ‘Johnny’ you have another child, let’s call her ‘Jane,’ she struggles to sit still in class, doesn’t engage well with classroom activities. She can be disruptive almost every day, violent on occasion, throwing objects as well as shouting and cursing all day long and it is with this child most of the time, energy and resources are spent.
There are many children in school with Speech, Language and Communication Needs (SLCN) who present with various behaviours. So, who do you prioritise first?
Do you go home feeling like a failure and burned out? You want to make a difference but unsure where to turn to for answers?
Are you one of the many teachers who work late every night, missing time with their families, just so you can put your lesson plan together for the next day? Are you constantly looking for ideas to modify the curriculum and lesson plans in order to meet each child’s level of understanding? Asking yourself questions: How can I facilitate learning in the classroom which will enable children to express their ideas and request help appropriately? How can I better understand the link between speech and literacy development? How can I manage children with social communication needs? How can I plan activities which support the development of receptive and expressive language in order to improve behaviour AND learning to benefit all children like both ‘Johnny’ and ‘Jane’?
The Elklan Speech and Language Support for 5-11s will give you the answers to all these questions and will help upskill you to recognise children who have SLCN in your classroom and how best to facilitate their learning.
Get in touch with Helen Hayes as [email protected] for more information about the up and coming course.

I am preparing for my Live tomorrow at 11am. Hope to see you all there to find out what exciting things will be on the way.

If you are interested then please get in touch.
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You can now purchase individual e-learning sessions of our well-established Let’s Talk with Under 5s course.

You’ll gain essential knowledge and skills to support your children’s communication skills during lockdown.

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Play is the fundamental foundation for language.

In order to encourage language we need to develop a child's ability to play

What is communication?

Did you know that over 50% of our message is communicated through our bodies and the situation we are in?

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Happy New Year!
Look out for sessions starting later this month.

Christmas morning can be a really exciting time, especially for children and young people. Sometimes though, excitement and over-stimulation can be different sides of the same coin.

Using visuals can be a great way of keeping times like Christmas morning exciting, but also predictable. They explain how a day will be structured, and in what order things will happen.

Here's one of our therapists' Christmas morning in a timetable. This timetable was made using the programme Boardmaker which is now available in many libraries across Edinburgh and the Lothians.