These resources were developed by our Speech and Language Therapy and Occupational Therapy teams working together to provide patients, schools and settings with ideas to support children.
They are relevant to everyone regardless of where you live.
Videos
- How to help your child learn emotions words
- Supporting autistic children and young people: How to help, sensory processing and helpful adaptations to their environment
- TEACCH: TEACCH is a set of principles and techniques used to support children with Autism.
- Attention Autism: is a group for children with Autism that helps to develop attention and listening skills.
- Lego Therapy is a group based intervention that allows the children to develop and practise many different skills such as attention and listening, social skills and language skills.
- Language and communication in the early years: The University of Sheffield has developed short videos on language and communication.
- Tiny Happy People: This is a BBC website with lots of useful videos and information about developing children’s communication skills
- Introduction to Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC): This video explores what AAC is and why it is used
- Implementing Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC): This video made by Worcestshire Speech and Language Therapy NHS Service explores how children learn AAC and advice on how to implement a visual AAC system
- Colourful Semantics: Colour Semantics is an approach that supports children to learn new words, grammar sentences and understanding questions using colour.
Advice sheets - early years
- Advice sheets - early years (communication, interaction, language)
- Advice sheets - under five years (self-care, productivity)
- Advice sheets (pre-school support)
- Attention and listening
- Sensory
- Social communication and language
- Get Talking
- Top techniques to develop children's speech and language
- Listen up: helping your child develop their communication
- Top tips for developing communication
- Universally speaking: The ages and stages of children's communication development (zero to five years)
- Cogs of communication: advice and resources
- Eating
- Sleeping
- Toileting
Advice sheets - school age
- Advice sheets - over five years (self-care, productivity)
- Advice sheets - school
- School age advice sheets (communication, feeding, self-care)
- Attention and listening
- Sensory
- Behaviour
- Social communication and language
- Visual schedules
- Social communication (stage one)
- Language (stage one)
- Speech (stage one)
- Narrative (stage one)
- Early communicators (stage one)
- Toys and games to encourage communication skills
- Social communication (stage two)
- Language (stage two)
- Speech (stage two)
- Narrative (stage two)
- Inference (stage two)
- Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC)
- LEGO-based therapy
- Shape coding at home
- The Zones of Regulation
- The Zones of Regulation: check in for home
- Now - Next Boards
- Speech classroom strategies
- Social communication strategies
- Language classroom strategies
- Supporting children and young people with speech, language and communication needs
- The stages of typical language development (ages four to eleven)
- The stages of typical language development (ages 11 onwards)
- Speech pack for families on how to support children's speech sound development
- Visual supports for the classroom
- Visual supports at home
- Eating
- Sleeping
- Toileting