Environment
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The environment of the Balanced System is where you can find ideas, suggestions and resources that can help you organise your setting or school environment to help children develop their understanding, talking and communication. You will find suggestions of simple changes that can help a lot through to ideas of resources and adaptations that might be advised by a speech and language therapist.
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TCT Communication Friendly Checklist
A child or young person's learning environment can have a huge impact on their ability to develop speech, language and communication skills. This simple checklist has been designed for practitioners to be able to easily review their own learning environment to see how well it supports children and young people. By completing the 15 easy to answer questions about the use of space, light and layout; noise levels; visual support; adult knowledge and interactions; routines, teachers will be more informed about what they are doing well and what they could change to make their learning environment more supportive for communication.
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
Worcestershire Workforce Audit
Speech Language and Communication Needs (SLCN) Self-Evaluation Audit for practitioners in settings and schools.
Cost: Free
BCTC Toolkit - Visual Support
Blackpool Classrooms That Communicate is a curated collection of resources and advice that puts speech, language & communication at the heart of helping staff to help the children and young people they work with. This includes a wide range of resources and information on the use of visuals to help support the understanding of written and spoken language. These can used with all children including those who find it difficult to listen, process and remember.
Cost: Free
BCTC Toolkit - Effective Surroundings
Blackpool Classrooms That Communicate is a curated collection of resources and advice that puts speech, language & communication at the heart of helping staff to help the children and young people they work with. This includes a wide range of information on how to creative effective surroundings for learning.
Cost: Free
