Identification
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The identification strand of the Balanced System is about information to help you understand how your child is getting on with developing their understanding, talking and communication and when you might need to get further advice if you are worried. The identification strand will allow you to add to your pathway links to organisations that can help.
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These resourcess offer extra support. You may also find resources that offer support to everyone are useful. If you need more, you can browse resources that offer individualised support.
WellComm Assessment
The WellComm Assessment is for use with any child aged 6 months to 6 years and enables practitioners to evaluate children's language skills, draw up a detailed profile and identify children at risk of having difficulty in developing language skills. It identifies those children who need setting-based monitoring and support and those who need referral to specialist support services. The screen is completed through observation, discussion with families and screening by asking children to carry out a variety of tasks ensuring that results obtained and conclusions drawn are more accurate than using one approach alone.
Child Monitoring Tool
A profiling tool to monitor a babies development in relation to Listening and Attention; Understanding; Talking; and Social Skills. As a practitioner you can highlight statements that the baby can do through ongoing observations and assessment as well as discussion with parents. The tool includes checkpoint statements which need to be particularly considered as, if a baby is not achieving these skills at the age indicated, this may indicate a speech, language and communication need that requires ongoing investigation and monitoring.
Cost: Free
Progress Checker
Speech and Language UK's progress checker provides parents with short questions they can answer to see their baby is getting on with their communication development.
Cost: Free
Speech and Language UK Ages and Stages
This is a guide to the typical stages of speech and language development in babies. Children develop language at different rates. However, understanding what is typical can help you identify speech and language problems early. This page also provides information about how to support babies' development.
Cost: Free
WellComm Toolkit
The WellComm Assessment is for use with any child aged 6 months to 6 years and enables practitioners to evaluate children's language skills, draw up a detailed profile and identify children at risk of having difficulty in developing language skills. It identifies those children who need setting-based monitoring and support and those who need referral to specialist support services. The screen is completed through observation, discussion with families and screening by asking children to carry out a variety of tasks ensuring that results obtained and conclusions drawn are more accurate than using one approach alone.
The WellComm Big Book of Ideas has been designed for use following a WellComm assessment of any child aged 6 months to 6 years. It includes general strategies as well as very specific activities to develop and improve children's speech and language skills and can be implemented by any early years practitioner or parent using toys and items that can be found in settings or at home. The activities are used to develop the particular skills highlighted for support in the assessment - this means that the activities delivered are specific and appropriate to the individual child language development stage and can be used in the setting or at home.
Training videos are included in the toolkit.
ASQ-3
The Ages & Stages Questionnaires®, Third Edition (ASQ®-3) is a developmental screening tool that pinpoints developmental progress in children between the ages of one month to 5 ½ years.
Speech and Language UK Chatter Matters
This series of videos for parents and carers outlines how speech, language and communication skills develop; what families can do to support their baby; how these skills develop over time; children with speech and language needs and how to access information and support.
Cost: Free
