Provide a Total Communication Environment that uses a range of teaching and learning styles with emphasis on use of gestures, signing, Objects of Reference, key visuals and concrete examples to support spoken language.
Additional differentiation and scaffolding of tasks, which may require individualised planning for much of the day.
Adults deliver and support daily one-to-one targets or small group interventions based on support and guidance from external services.
Use an Intensive Interaction approach to build relationships with children who find it hard to interact. For children who aren’t using any words yet, you can copy their actions. If they clap their hands, you clap them too. See what they do; they might look at you and smile to let you know they want you to carry on. Once the child is interacting well with you regularly, invite another child to join you too.
Black Sheep provides resources for practitioners and speech and language therapists working with children (3 years and above) with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) and speech, language & communication needs (SLCN).