The Speech and Language therapy team target specific skills associated with speech, language (e.g. word knowledge, sentence structures, narrative and inference) and communication (including social communication skills and functional use of language/ life skills). Therapy is often linked to the needs of the curriculum.

Therapy takes place in 1:1, small group and class based sessions (e.g. Word Aware, social skills groups). The SLTs also support teaching staff to ensure therapeutic strategies are incorporated within the classes.

For those students with more significant speech and language therapy needs, we offer a limited number of Language Stream placements. Further information can be found under the Language Stream tab.

Do speech and language therapists have a role in literacy?

PODCAST

Do speech and language therapists have a role in literacy? by RCSLT Sound Waves

As dually qualified speech and language therapists working with school-aged children, the importance of making the links between spoken and written language through explicit instruction is something we are passionate about.  A few years ago, we surveyed over 500 UK SaLTs to find out their views on their role and scope of practice within literacy (written language).  The ultimate aim was to find out whether UK SaLTs working with children and / or adults feel the profession would benefit from having a position paper regarding the role and scope of practice within literacy.  The podcast discusses the question of whether SaLTs have a role in literacy when working with children and / or adults.  It also offers insights from an international perspective.