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Downloads: Top Tips: Choices (Coming Soon)
Downloads: Top Tips for Talking Advice Sheet
Confident Communicators videos
General Links for understanding and spoken language:
Parents/ Carers/ Professionals:
- For more ideas about how to support your child’s language development: https://ican.org.uk/media/2386/talk-together-2020.pdf
- For ideas of toys/ activities that can help your child’s language: https://ican.org.uk/media/1773/top-10-toys-factsheet.pdf
- To help your child learn new words, see: https://ican.org.uk/media/1770/teaching-children-new-words.pdf
- For ideas on how to use books to help your child’s language development: https://ican.org.uk/media/1775/using-books-to-develop-language.pdf
- For information about Makaton signs, to support your child’s language development, see: https://www.makaton.org
Professionals
- For useful ways to support younger children with SLCN please download this factsheet for Early Years practitioners: http://www.speechtherapistsuffolk.co.uk/pdf/Factsheet1LanguageDifficultiesintheEarlyYears.ashxcopy.pdf
- For useful ways to support children with SLCN in primary school please download the factsheet: http://www.thecommunicationtrust.org.uk/media/599395/factsheet_2_classroom_strategies_for_primary_schools.pdf
- For useful ways to support children with SLCN in secondary school please download the factsheet: http://www.thecommunicationtrust.org.uk/media/599398/factsheet_3_classroom_strategies_for_secondary_schools.pdf
A range of useful factsheets for people working with children with SLCN are available to download from the ICAN website: https://ican.org.uk/i-cans-talking-point/professionals/professionals-faqs/
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Downloads: – Top Tips for Unclear Speech Advice Sheet (Early Years)
School age handout- to be decided by Link SLTs
Embed: Sorting out Sounds videos
- Link:
- What to expect at each age and what you can do to help develop speech sounds at home https://ican.org.uk/media/1278/speech-sounds-factsheet.pdf
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Download: Top tips for Social Communication handout
Useful websites for social communication/ASD
National Autistic Society: https://www.autism.org.uk/
Bristol Autism Support website: https://www.bristolautismsupport.com
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Download: Top tips hand out for stammering
https://ican.org.uk/media/1769/stammering-factsheet.pdf
Useful websites:
The British Stammering Association (now trading as STAMMA): https://stamma.org/
The Fluency Trust: https://thefluencytrust.org.uk/
Action for Stammering Children: https://actionforstammeringchildren.org/
Stambassadors: https://actionforstammeringchildren.org/get-involved/stambassadors/
Helpful videos:
‘Stamma’ have a series of very helpful videos: https://stamma.org/resources/video-audio
7 Tips for Talking with the Child who Stutters (stuttering means the same as stammering):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTpckAufNDE
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Download: Top tips handout for Deafness/hearing impairment to be added to website over next few months. (Also possible translation of parts of website into BSL)
Useful websites for Deafness/hearing impairment:
National Deaf Children’s Society: https://www.ndcs.org.uk/
Auditory Verbal UK: https://www.avuk.org/
Videos of BSL signs: https://www.signbsl.com/
Elizabeth Foundation: https://www.elizabeth-foundation.org/
Family centre (for Deaf children in Bristol and surrounding areas): https://fcdc.org.uk/
We work closely with the Audiology department and West of England Hearing Implant Programme (WEHIP) at St Michaels Hospital, as well as Teachers of the Deaf (Sensory Support Service). For more information about these services please see websites below:
Teachers of the Deaf: https://sensorysupportservice.org.uk/
West of England Hearing Implant Programme (WEHIP): http://www.uhbristol.nhs.uk/patients-and-visitors/your-hospitals/other-services-in-bristol/west-of-england-hearing-implant-programme/
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Download: Top tips handout for dysphagia (Coming soon)
Useful websites for Dysphagia:
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https://www.makaton.org/ – information and resources for Makaton signing
https://www.widgit.com/ – Symbol resources for supporting communication
https://communicationmatters.org.uk/ – Information and resources for AAC
http://www.callscotland.org.uk/Home/ – Information and resources for AAC
https://www.nbt.nhs.uk/bristol-centre-enablement/services-at-centre/aac-west-service Information on assessments for communication aids
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Useful website for any concerns about your child’s voice
Useful strategies to keep your child’s voice healthy: https://www.gosh.nhs.uk/conditions-and-treatments/procedures-and-treatments/encouraging-your-child-produce-healthy-voice
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Useful website for information about Selective Mutism
An overview of selective mutism: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/selective-mutism/
Information and resources for parents and professionals: http://www.selectivemutism.org.uk/information/information-for-parents/
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