NHS Berkshire Healthcare | Speech & Language Therapy

This article has been brought to you by Slough Borough Council's Early Years Advisory Teacher, Karen Loft, for the attention of all Early Years and Childcare Practitioners.

Our Early Years team are pleased to introduce our monthly online workshops covering early language development. They are designed for parents and carers and those working within early years settings. Please see below for more information on the sessions and how to register.

Communication Foundations

Does your child struggle to pay attention to you?
Does your child pay fleeting attention to you or their toys?
Does your child find it difficult to allow or tolerate you sitting next to them?
Does your child struggle to use words to communicate?

The Early Years Speech and Language Therapy Team will be talking about different strategies that may support your child. Choose from the following dates. 

Communication Building Blocks 

Does your child have a limited number of words?
Does your child only use short phrases?

The Early Years Speech and Language Therapy Team will be sharing ways you can support your child’s early language development. Choose from the following dates. 

Scaffolding Communication 

The Early Years Speech and Language Therapy Team will provide an overview of how we can use gestures, objects and pictures to support language development. Choose from the following dates. 

Important information about your personal data

When you visit the link for the training session, Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust will use the information you provide for service development purposes. Your email address will only be accessible to those Berkshire Healthcare staff involved in the delivery of the training. 

Personal data will be deleted after the webinar, your information will not be shared with any third party and you will not be contacted by Berkshire Healthcare as a result of this training, unless safeguarding concerns arise from the session around your own, or your child’s wellbeing. If this is the case, data will be used to escalate appropriately to the safeguarding team.

Cameras and microphones will remain disabled throughout the session, however, please note that if you do not select ‘Join as a guest’ at the time of the training, your name will be visible to other attendees. Please select ‘Join as a guest’ when you enter. 

For more information follow the link: Speech and Language Therapy | Children Young People and Families Online Resource (berkshirehealthcare.nhs.uk)

Update: This week we are thinking about school readiness!

The information this week is not intended to overwhelm you and it will not apply to all children, but we wanted to share some ideas of things you can be thinking about ahead of this important transition time.

The BBC have a great section on starting primary school which is useful for both parents/carers and children: www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/collections/starting-primary-school

They also have a section on starting secondary school here: www.bbc.co.uk/bitesi…/tags/zh4wy9q/starting-secondary-school