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The family support or information strand of the Balanced System is about helping parents, carers and families be confident and well informed to support their child's development of understanding, talking and communication and to find out more if you are worried about any of these areas.
You will find information, advice, guidance and support that helps you as a family feel more confident that you know how to encourage your child's development of understanding, talking and communicating. Family Support resources will include leaflets, videos, information sessions that you can go to, as well as pointers to useful websites and even TV programmes that have been specially produced. If you are worried about how your child is developing these skills and want more detailed information you will be able to find it here as well and you may also want to go to the workforce or 'who can help' strand for local contact information.
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Afasic supports parents and carers with children who have difficulties with listening, talking and understanding others. Here they provide you with a wide range of information about talking, listening and understanding and what might cause these difficulties. If you worried that your child is not talking or not saying as much as other children of their age, you can contact Afasic by telephone or email to speak to someone who can help.
Cost: Free
Progress Checker
Speech and Language UK's progress checker provides short questions you can answer to see how your child is getting on with their speech, language and communication development.
Cost: Free
Parent information, advice and resources - Worcestershire
The Worcestershire Speech and Language Therapy service website provides a comprehensive range of resources, advice and You Tube videos to help parents to support their child / young person at home.
Visit the website to find:
- Information about speech, language and communication
- Free resources you can download and use at home
- Links to our You Tube channel where you will find demonstrations of activities you can do at home
- Further information about the local team, where we work and what services we provide
Cost: Free
Slowing down
Find out how to slow down your talking and understand more about how this can help your child.
Cost: Free
Talk together in daily routines
This leaflet provides information about how you can use everyday activities and routines to talk about what your child can see and what is happening. Children learn from experiences and activities that happen over and over again. This gives you a chance to use the same words and sentences many times. Linking these to daily routines will help your child to make links between the words you say and what they mean.
Cost: Free
Share books with children
Sharing books is a great way to help your child's talking. Making books part of your daily routine really helps to develop attention, communication and language skills. Nottinghamshire Language for Life have produced this information leaflet about book sharing as well as many other top tips leaflets to help understand how to support speech, language and communication.
Cost: Free
Speech and Language UK Ages and Stages
Understanding what is typical for children and young people's talking can help you identify speech and language support needs. Here can find information about ages and stages of development as well as information to help your child talk and develop their communication skills.
Cost: Free
Enquiry Line
The Speech and Language UK Enquiry Service gives you a chance to discuss questions or concerns about your child’s speech, language and communication development with one of Speech and Language UK’s speech and language therapists. The therapists can give helpful information about children’s talking and communication development as well as tips on improving these skills. They can also offer advice on ages and stages and what can be done to help your child get the right support.
Cost: Free
Switch off and talk
This webpage and leaflet provides you with information about why it is important to think about switching off electronic devices to help with communication development
Speech and Language UK How to support your child
This information about how to support your child forms part of Speech and Language UK's guide to the typical stages of speech and language development. Children develop language at different rates and understanding what is typical and what you can do to support your child can help you give them the best start on their journey to developing communication and language skills.
Cost: Free
TCT Universally Speaking Ages and Stages 5-11 years
Universally Speaking is a series of booklets for anyone who works with children and young people. The booklets show where children should be with their communication skills at any given age. You can use the booklets to find out whether the children you work with are on the right track, what helps them learn to talk and listen and what to do if you have concerns about any of their communication abilities.
Cost: Free
Leeds Speech and Language Therapy Toolkit
Leeds Community Healthcare's Speech and Language Therapy Toolkit contains advice, activities and general resources to help you with your child's development of speech, language and communication skills.
Cost: Free
Learning more than one language
Many children grow up learning more than one language. This information leaflet from NHS Forth Valley provides you with useful information and top tips about what you can do to help your young child on their way to being bilingual or multilingual.
Cost: Free
Speech Link Parent Portal
The Speech Link Parent Portal offers you advice, information and activities for developing your children’s understanding, talking and listening. It includes information about speech, language and communication, how these skills develop, activities and top tips videos.
Cost: Free
