Early Years and School Years

Effective speech, language and communication skills enable children to realise their learning potential. Being a good communicator underpins the development of a child’s learning and thinking skills, and their social and emotional well being. Any child who struggles with speech and language in the classroom is at a major disadvantage as literacy builds on a foundation of oral language skills.

Every school has different needs and priorities so we work with schools to identify what approach will work for them. This can be a combination of consultancy, training, coaching and mentoring, or direct workiing with an individual or groups of students. We start by listening to you and then work with you to help you recognise and build on the good practice that already exists within your school.

	Science Spirals for Primary School (Reception & KS1) Science Spirals for Primary School builds on the highly successful and effective Spirals small grouup language programme. Find out more		Spirals Training: An effective approach based in psychology to developing children's language and thinking skills. Marion Nash, Chartered Psychologist and author of the Spirals series of books, delivers our Upward Spirals training. Find out more
	Maths Spirals for Primary School (Reception & KS1) Maths Spirals for Primary School builds on the highly successful and effective Spirals small grouup language programme. Find out more		Spring 2012 Workshops for Secondary Schools Supporting Students with Speech, Language and Communication Difficulties Find out more
	Spring 2012 Workshops for Primary Schools Supporting Children with Speech, Language and Communication Difficulties Find out more		Resources These are some of our favourite FREE resources that are useful for parents, teachers, TAs and early years practitioners. Find out more
	The Hello Campaign 2011 - The National Year of Communication Find out more		Autumn Workshops for Secondary Teachers SENCOs and TAs - South West Find out more
	Autumn Workshops for Primary Teachers SENCOs and TAs - South West We are offering a range of workshops for Primary school staff in the Autumn Term 2011 Find out more		FREE Workshop for Early Years Practitioners Identifying and Supporting Speech language and Communication Needs in Early Years Settings Find out more
	Workshop for Primary School Staff - Truro 12 July 2011 Understanding, identifying and supporting speech, language and communication needs in the Primary Classroom Find out more		Workshop for Secondary School Staff - Truro 12 July 2011 Understanding, identifying and supporting, language and communication needs in the Secondary Classroom Find out more
	The Hello Campaign - November 2011 This month, the theme for the Hello Campaign is 'Celebrating Communication'. We've summed up the events going on this month in our November newsletter. Find out more		Talkcoach holds a series of free workshops in support of a national campaign The Hello campaign - backed by the Department for Education - aims to make communication for all children and young people a priority in homes and schools across the UK. Find out more

"It opened my eyes to the complex nature of SLCN and how far reaching this is." TA