This information may be appropriate for primary and/or secondary pupils, depending on their age, stage, and individual needs.
Websites
- Why visual supports are an essential tool
- Blanks Levels of Questioning to help children develop key oral language comprehension skills
Resources
- Visual supports
- Now and Next boards
- Visual timetables
- Pre-Teaching Vocabulary (PTV) – methodology using symbols and pictures
- Narrative approach to learning language - Black Sheep Press
- TEACCH – strategies and tools to support in the classroom
- Language for Thinking: A structured approach for young children by Anna Branagan and Stephen Parsons (ISBN-13: 9781909301931)
- Reading and Thinking Books 1-6
- Think About It - inferencing and reasoning
- May I Join You? – encouraging communication through play
Training
Training on communication friendly classrooms, Blanks levels of questioning and vocabulary is available. Discuss your needs and priorities with your specialist advisory teacher.
Whole School SEND training on an introduction, identification, supporting and developing speech, language and communication needs
Secondary heading: Specialist support in school
The SENSS C&I team support, advise and empower staff in schools and settings to understand the needs of children and young people with speech, language and communication needs and autism spectrum conditions.