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Language & Communication

We offer Talk Boost KS2 and Primary Talk Training.

We have extensive experience of working with children with language difficulties in schools and can support with developing language through to higher level skills such as using inference.

Please call or email for an informal, no obligation discussion.

We can help with target setting and understanding developmental norms.

We also offer bespoke language training as twilight or half day to a day courses.

Andrea is trained in the use of the Derbyshire Language Scheme and qualified to use many assessment materials which include those looking at language levels

For children aged 7-10 with delayed language, Talk Boost KS2 narrows the gap between them and their peers

What is Talk Boost KS2?

Talk Boost KS2 is a targeted intervention aimed at children 7-10 year old children with delayed language, aiming to boost their language skills helping them to catch up with their peers. The programme aims to accelerate children’s progress in language and communication, after an eight week intervention.

Children who are selected to take part in the intervention will attend three sessions per week in small groups, each lasting 30-40 minutes delivered by the teaching assistant. The sessions include activities that follow the areas of language and communication: listen carefully, learning new words, telling stories, working with others and making friends and having conversations. In addition, the teacher will run a weekly whole-class activity and there are activities that can be practiced at home.

What are the benefits of Talk Boost KS2?

The benefits are:

Supports children who are not achieving their expected levels of progress in their language development
Can be used to demonstrate to Ofsted how you are focussing on developing staff skills
Help to build relationships with parents, by reinforcing the language skills the child learned during the group sessions
Demonstrates the effective use of your Pupil Premium allocation
An all-in-one speech and language solution package
Can be used by non speech and language specialists
Proven to improve children’s language and communication through our evidence base
Designed to be sustainable so you can deliver the intervention multiple times to new groups of children
Identify, monitor and track children’s progress before and following the intervention with the online tracker

Primary Talk is a whole school programme to develop children's communication skills.

Birmingham Speech and Language Therapy Service put together some videos for parents to support early communication skills such as shared attention, and they can be found by following the link below: