The Team works collaboratively with schools and parents to support children in reception and key stage 1 who have a diagnosis of Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) or a severe speech disorder. They will:

• Assess the child’s needs
• Liaise with parents, class teacher and SENCo to make plans
• Write input plans with specific targets
• Provide specialist interventions in school on a weekly basis. This may involve the speech and language therapist, specialist language teacher or both, dependent on individual need
• Review targets regularly and update plans accordingly

We can also offer a package of online training to schools and parents dependent on individual need, these include:

• Contrastive Pairs
• Makaton
• Early vocabulary and concepts
• Visuals
• Information carrying words