Time to Talk provides a powerful and accessible resource for
practitioners working to improve children's language and communication
skills. Showcasing effective approaches in schools and settings across
the country from the early years through primary and secondary
education, it summarises research on what helps children and young
people develop good communication skills, and highlights the importance
of key factors: a place to talk, a reason to talk and support for talk.
This timely second edition has been fully updated to reflect Pupil
Premium, curriculum, assessment and special needs reforms, and can be
used by individual practitioners as well as supporting a whole-school or
setting approach to spoken language.
It includes:
- whole-class approaches to developing all children and young people's
speaking and listening skills;
- 'catch-up' strategies for those with limited language;
- ways of differentiating the curriculum for those with difficulties;
- ways in which settings and schools can develop an effective
partnership with specialists to help children with more severe needs;
- models schools can use to commission their own speech and language
therapy services;
- examples of good practice in supporting parents/carers to develop
their children's language skills; and
- answers to practitioners' most frequently asked questions about speech
and language.
Now in full-colour, this practical and engaging book is for all who are
concerned about how to help children and young people with limited
language and communication skills - school leaders, teachers,
early-years practitioners, and the speech and language therapists they
work with.
