AET Progression Framework
The AET Progression Framework is intended to assist practitioners in identifying areas where autistic pupils may require additional support, so that specific programmes can be planned and implemented. It can also provide evidence of the effectiveness of such support. It is recommended that, where possible, discussions about learning needs, interventions and progress involve the pupil, their parents or carers and all those who work with them.
Afasic
Afasic produces free downloads with vital information for parents and professionals about talking, understanding language and getting the right help. They offer free downloads, free parent support days and workshops, and useful links to mobile apps and other support.
Bedrock Learning
Bedrock offers Bedrock Vocabulary, a nine-year digital literacy and vocabulary curriculum designed for children of all abilities in KS1 and KS2 (Years 3-11), and Bedrock GCSE Literature schemes, a growing range of units to support learning of specific texts and terms for KS3 and KS4 young people.
Bell Foundation
The Bell Foundation have an EAL assessment framework that can be useful for assessing children new to English.
Black Sheep
Black Sheep Resources for teachers and speech and language therapists working with children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) and speech, language & communication needs (SLCN). Speech Sound Inventory for phonology screeners.
Boardmaker
Boardmaker provides a wide range of symbol-based communication and visual supports which can be used around the environment, for displays and to create visual timetables.
Tiered pricing depending on number of installations and packages.
Brick by Brick Programme
The Brick by Brick programme by Play Included uses Lego to develop social connection and interaction and is recommended for use with autistic children rather than Lego Therapy.
Building Friendships is a free whole-class resource for schools, to help develop social and emotional learning through collaborative LEGO® Play.
BVPS
British Picture Vocabulary Scale (BVPS) can be used to assess vocabulary development and identify any delay in language development.
Bury Outreach Team
The Outreach Team provide outreach support to schools to help them meet children’s special educational needs.
Bury Speech and Language Therapy Service
The Paediatric Community Speech and Language Therapy Team provides treatment, support and care for children who have difficulties with communication, or with eating, drinking and swallowing. Requests for assessments can be made by parents, GPs, Health Visitors, School Nurses, Paediatricians, Special Educational Needs Coordinators or other professionals involved with the child.
CAMHS
CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services) offer specialist mental health support to children and young people experiencing difficulties with their mental health in Bury.
Referral based service.
Circle of Friends
Circle of Friends is an approach to enhancing the inclusion, in a mainstream setting, of any child who is experiencing difficulties in school because of disability, personal crisis or because of their challenging behaviour towards others. Circle of Friends works by mobilising the child’s peers to provide support and engage in problem solving with the person in difficulty. This intervention is aimed at children and young people aged 5 to 18 years.
Contact Bury EPS, edpsych@bury.gov.uk for further information on their training package and intervention delivery.
Communication Trust
The Communication Trust offer a range of information and tools to enable practitioners to improve their practice, many of which are free to download. Their resources include the communication development pyramid and the communication friendly environment checklist. Staff can be trained in the pyramid and to understand how to adapt their communication cues so that they can ‘step up’ or ‘step down’ with a child as necessary.
Universally Speaking resources can be found here.
Elklan
Elklan have a range of courses to suit you whether you are an early years worker, teacher or assistant working with children with Speech, Language and Communication Needs (SLCN). Their courses can enable you to develop the speech and language skills of ALL children but especially those with speech and language difficulties. Delivered by local tutors throughout the UK they give practical advice and strategies that are also suitable for children with English as an additional language and other special educational needs.
Elklan courses are run locally by the Speech and Language Therapy Service. Courses run regularly throughout the year and can also delivered for individual schools. Please discuss training with your Link SLT.
Language Link (Secondary)
Secondary Language Link can be used to support young people (11-14 years old) with mild to moderate language and communication needs and those new to English.
Makaton
Makaton A language programme that uses symbols and signs alongside speech.
Mentoring
Mentoring involves pairing young people with an older peer or adult to acts as a positive role model) and to support with personalised goal setting. The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) provides a free toolkit to guide implementation in schools.
Narrative Intervention Program
Narrative Intervention Program is a program to improve the story telling skills of young adults/young people in secondary school.
PASS
PASS (Young person Attitude to Self and School - Self report questionnaire identifying young people’s feelings towards school and learning.
PECS
PECS [Picture Exchange Communication System] - an alternative, augmentative communication system in which simple picture cards are used to communicate simple needs initially but work towards more complex sentence structures.
PODD (Pragmatic Organisation Dynamic Display)
PODD is a book or device that contains symbols and words to support communication between people with complex communication needs and their communication partners (family, friends or teaching staff).
Proloquo2Go
Proloquo2Go. Children, teens and adults who cannot speak can use this Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) app for iOS as a daily communication tool and to build language skills. From the first time someone opens the app, a few taps are all it takes to start talking to the world.
Racing to English
Racing to English have some useful activities to support children who are new to English.
Raising Awareness of DLD
RADLD | Raising Awareness of Developmental Language Disorder gives free information and fact sheets about Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), as well as a range of helpful resources.
Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
The RCSLT support speech and language therapists by providing leadership, setting professional standards, facilitating research and promoting better education and training.
Various training opportunities – some free and delivered online.
Sea Bridge
An online curriculum for for staff working with neurodivergent and autistic children aged 5-10 years. 40 ready make workshops focusing on communication skills and self-advocacy.
Can access a free 7 day trial.
Selective Mutism Manual
The Selective Mutism Manual is a comprehensive and practical manual that is grounded in behavioural psychology and anxiety management and draws on relevant research findings as well as the authors' extensive clinical experience to provide guidance for the Early Years through to adolescence.
Sliding in Technique
The ‘Sliding in Technique’ is a process that can be used to support a child to talk in front of new people, using a gradual process of the new person ‘sliding in’.
Speech Link/Language Link
A Speech Link subscription allows you to carry out as many assessments and interventions as you wish across an academic year. It gives you access to online training for as many support staff as you wish and unlimited access to the interactive listening games.
Social Thinking
Social Thinking gives strategies to teach essential life skills such as socio-emotional learning and self-regulation across all environments.
SULP (Social Use of Language Program)
SULP [Social Use of Language Program] is a framework for personal, emotional and social development from a communication and thinking skills perspective, providing multisensory activity sequences with interactive stories.
TALC
The TALC (Test of Abstract Language Comprehension) was designed to help speech and language therapists, education staff and the wider workforce to assess and develop the verbal reasoning skills of all under 5s and primary aged children who experience difficulty understanding what is said to them.
Talkabout (inc. Talkabout for Teens)
Talkabout is a complete programme for developing self-esteem, social and friendship skills.
Talk for Writing
Talk for Writing is a teaching framework that enables children to imitate the language they need for a particular topic orally, before reading and analysing it, and then writing their own version.
One day training with a school or small cluster (from 9am to 3.30pm) costs £1250 plus expenses for up to 50 delegates. If numbers exceed 50, then there is an additional fee of £50 per person. A day’s consultancy from 9am to 3.30pm costs £850 plus expenses.
Talking Maths
Talking Maths is a 10-week intervention programme which targets speaking and listening skills in the context of mathematical language.
TEACCH
The TEACCH approach aims to respond to the needs of autistic people using the best available approaches and methods known so far, for educating and teaching autonomy. It is not a single method and can be used alongside other approaches.
Widgit
Widgit provides a wide range of symbols which can be used to signpost around the classroom environment, for displays and to create visual timetables.
Widgit Essentials Bundle has tiered pricing depending on the number of installations. £289 – 1 installation.
Word Aware
Word Aware is a structured whole school approach to promote the vocabulary development of all children.
WRAT
Wide Range Achievement Test - assess and monitor the reading, spelling, and maths skills.
Zones of Regulation
Zones of Regulation is an intervention that supports the development of self-regulation and emotional control.