Talking Together

One child in five starts primary school in England without the language skills they need to succeed, a figure that rises to one in three of the poorest children. (Department of Education 2015) 

We offer a traded service that is led and delivered by NHS Speech and Language Therapists, and tailored to meet individual school and setting needs.

We are an award winning, nationally recognised team. We can offer bespoke support across all key stages including:

• staff training – bespoke and licensed national training
• parent training and coaching
• your own speech and language therapist and speech and language therapy assistant

Browse our Talking Together Training - Autumn 2022 - Spring 2023 and book your place

 

Services for schools and settings:

• your own speech and language therapist – packages from one day a month to one day a week
• packages to be shared across MATs/families of schools

Speech and language therapists can:

• provide action plans to support the development of communication skills in schools
• provide individual assessments, programmes and therapy alongside your TA teams
• provide staff training including licensed interventions
• support your parents to develop their home learning environment

 

Staff training examples can include those listed below and we can also develop specific training that meets your requirements

• Bespoke twilight and INSET training
• Making the link – exploring the links between language and social, emotional and mental health needs
• Early Years “Language for Life” training

• Talking Matters
• Communication for All
• Let’s Interact – An adaptation of Learning and Language and Loving It ^TM  – The Hanen Programme® for Early Childhood Educators/Teachers
• Talking with Twos

 

Interventions – training and support for schools and settings include:

• KS1 TalkBoost^TM (ICAN)
• Early Years TalkBoost^TM (ICAN)
• Attention and Listening Groups
• Narrative Groups
• Word Aware^TM
• Speech sound groups
• Elklan Speech and Language Support for 3-5s and 5-11s

 

Speech and language support for parents/carers includes:

• Elklan: Let’s Talk with the Under 5’s
• Home Talk 3+2020.pdf [pdf] 1016KB 
• Parents’ information evenings
• Little Talkers
• Home Talk Leaflet.pdf [pdf] 263KB - Home Talk® is an evidence-based parent-support programme delivered by trained early years workers, supervised by speech and language therapists.

 

Talking Together online seminars

Browse our Talking Together Training Brochure and book your place here! - Talking Together Training - Summer and Autumn 2022.pdf [pdf] 411KB

Contact us for free consultation and advice to help identify the support that best suits your needs:

Email: L4L@nottshc.nhs.uk