"This is a useful resource for speech and language development, making it a great addition to any classroom." - Helen Punter-Bruce, specialist leader for additional educational needs and inclusion manager at Parkside Primary School in East Sussex
Catherine Delamain is a retired Speech and Language Therapist with over 40 years experience working with children with speech, language and communication needs in clinics, schools, special schools and nurseries. She spent several years in association with a Senior Educational Psychologist lecturing to teachers on how to address the needs of children with SLCN in mainstream and special schools.
Jill Spring is a retired Speech and Language Therapist who has worked in a variety of paediatric settings including community clinics, assessment centres and mainstream schools. Since September 2011 she has coordinated the Speech & Language Therapy Service training programmes offered to schools across Dorset, Bournemouth and Poole, and before that she worked as part of the multidisciplinary team responsible for assessment and diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders in West Dorset.
PART ONE 1.1 Explaining and describing 1.2 Narrating 1.3 Predicting and hypothesising 1.4 Asking and answering effective questions 1.5 Note taking PART TWO 2.1 Understanding and using complex structures 2.2 Analysing and generating different types of text 2.3 Matching language to context 2.4 Debating 2.5 Inference, idiom and irony