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11. Developing language skills
Most relevant Fagus Guides: Language Development
11. Developing language skills
Fagus Guides: Language Development
Resources/Further Info
The Communication Trust What Works Tool enables you to search evidence-based
(Alyson Bryan) interventions to support children’s speech, language and communication skills.
See website The Communication Trust
Time to Talk
(Alison Schroeder; 4-8 years) “Time to Talk has been developed to teach and develop oral language and social interaction skills to children aged 4–8 to make these aspects of school easier. It contains 40 sessions designed to take place two or three times a week. Skills taught include: eye contact, turn-taking, sharing, greetings, awareness of feelings, giving/
Colourful Semantics
following instructions, listening, attention and play skills”. Publication: Time to Talk A Programme to Develop Oral and Social Interaction Skills
for Reception and Key Stage One (Alison Schroeder)
For more information see: Time to Talk Alison Schroeder (book)
“Colourful Semantics is a therapy technique created by Alyson Bryan which uses colour coded cards to help children to learn the important elements of a sentence, and how to join them together in the correct order”. For more information go to: Colourful Semantics
11. Developing language skills
Fagus Guides: Awareness & Understanding of Others, Language Development
Specific Approaches Talk About Talk Secondary
(ages 14-18)
Elklan training, interventions and resources Language for Thinking
(Anna Branagan and Stephen but for use with children up to 11 years)
Resources/Further Info
A targeted intervention that helps pupils aged 14 to 18 with poor communication skills to
be ready for the workplace. TalkAbout Talk Secondary consists of a series of 13 fully
planned one-hour lessons delivered by trained teaching or support staff.
Elklan delivers accredited evidence informed courses for educational staff and parents for those with speech, language and communication needs and for parents.
For more information go to: Elklan
Black Sheep Press interventions Black Sheep Press have produced a set of resources for teachers and speech and and resources language therapists working with children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) and speech, language & communication needs (SLCN). Resources include worksheets, assessments and Apps.
Parsons; designed for 4-7 year olds For more information go to: Black Sheep Press Language for Thinking is a structured approach to develop children’s language from the ‘here and now’ to the ‘how and why’. See: Language for Thinking: A Structured Approach for Young Children (Anna Branagan and Stephen Parsons)
11. Developing language skills
Fagus Guides: Language Development
Specific Approaches Word Aware
(early years; key stages 1 and 2; Anna Branegan)
Resources/Further Info
Word Aware is a structured whole school approach to promote the vocabulary
development of all children.
Word Aware: Teaching Vocabulary Across the Day, Across the Curriculum (Anna Branegan) (this supports children’s vocabulary development from 5-11 years but can be adapted for use in secondary schools).
Word Aware 2: Teaching Vocabulary in the Early Years (Anna Branegan)
For more information see: ThinkingTalking
