Table of Contents
1. Introduction
- Key to Symbols
- Levels of Support
- Making Practical Use of this book
2. Speech, Language and Communication Skills
- The Language for Learning Model of Speech, Language & Communication Skills
- Receptive and Expressive Language
- Thinking Skills
3. Identifying Speech, Language and Communication Needs
- Speech, Language and Communication Needs
- How many young people experience SLCN?
- Indicators of SLCN
- Types of SLCN
- Impact of SLCN
- Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties
- Identifying SLCN
4. A Whole School Approach
- Roles and Responsibilities
- SENCO
- Parents
- Students
- Heads of Year
- Heads of Department
- Teacher
- Teaching Assistants
- Lunch Time Supervisors
- Administration Staff
- SEN Governors
- Language Friendly Environment Tools
- Consistency Across the School
- Adapting Resources
- Developing Independence
- Working Within Your Department
- Record of Support
5. Strategies for use Across the Curriculum
- Introducing Strategies and Resources
- Attention and Listening
- Understanding the Meaning of Words
- Structure and Rules
- Social Communication Skills
- Memory Skills
- Speech
- Thinking Skills
Glossary
References
Appendix 1: Suppliers of the Commercially Available Material
Appendix 2: Language for Learning in the Secondary School Training