Developing Speech and Language Skills

Gwen Lancaster (MSc) is a speech and language therapist working with children with speech and language disorders in Bristol. She has more than 10 years experience in teaching students who are training to be SLTs.

Speech and language - complexities and assumptions. How we produce speech sounds and the organisation of sounds in language. Phonological development. Activities for specific speech processes. Practical strategies for managing children with speech disorders and delays in the classroom - home school diary, crib sheet, spending one to one time with clear contextual clues, responding to misunderstanding, listening to the speech disordered child read, augmentive and alternative communication systems (AAC), teaching children about how to 'repair conversational breakdown', practising target words, ideas to implement every day with no preparation