Speech and language therapy live and pre-recorded webinars

Makaton training for parents and professionals

Early language groups training for nursery and pre-school settings

• Developing communication through play webinar

This webinar is for parents/carers and early years educators who want to learn more about the best ways to support a child or young person who stammers.

We discuss what stammering is, factors affecting speech fluency and what you can do to help someone who stammers.

If you have any questions or issues accessing this please email bht.stammering@nhs.net.

This webinar is for parents/carers and education staff who want to learn more about the best ways to support a child or young person who is unable to speak in some situations.

The nine parts go through how to put in place environmental support for children with SM and similar conditions, how to lay the groundwork for a successful small steps programme, and how and when to refer for further support.

There are also handouts which should be downloaded. If you have any questions or issues accessing this please email us at bht.selectivemutism@nhs.net.

Part 1. What is SM and why else might a child not speak?

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Handout 1 accompanies this video

Part 2. SM as a speech phobia and what does SM look like for you?

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Part 3. The ABCD of SM support

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Handout 3 accompanies this video

Part 4. Informal techniques particularly for under 5s

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Handout 4 accompanies this video

Part 5. Additional advice for older children and young adults

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Handout 5a

Handout 5b

Handout 5c

Part 6. Advice for parents

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Handout 6

Part 7. Target setting

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Part 8. What next and referrals

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Handout 8a

Handout 8b

Part 9. Brief overview of graded exposure programmes

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Handout 9a

Handout 9b

Handout 9c

Handout 9d

Handout 9e

Handout 9f

This webinar looks at what we mean by ‘vocabulary’, a child’s vocabulary learning journey, vocabulary difficulties and supporting vocabulary development across the curriculum.

It is divided into three parts to make it easier to watch. We would recommend you watch all three parts in order if watching for the first time.

Please download the vocabulary webinar handout to use with this video: Vocabulary webinar handout Sept 2023

Part 1 introduces what we mean by ‘vocabulary’ and why it is important. We also talk about a child’s vocabulary learning journey.

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Part 2 looks at vocabulary difficulties, including word finding difficulties, and the impacts this can have.

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Part 3 discusses resources, activities and ideas to support with vocabulary skills, relevant for children and young people in reception year and upwards.

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This webinar looks at the impact of attention and auditory memory on language development, how attention and auditory memory develops over time and strategies to support areas of difficulty through education and beyond.

It looks at what we mean by attention and auditory memory, the impact this has on language development, supporting strategies and interventions across the key stages and shaping the environment.

It’s divided into four parts to make it easier to watch. We would recommend you watch all four parts in order if watching for the first time.

Download the attention and auditory memory webinar handout to use with these videos:

Part 1 introduces what we mean by attention.

https://youtu.be/4Me69HBjCgA

Part 2 introduces universal and targeted activities for attention and listening.

https://youtu.be/1IwAr5Q3Fqo

Part 3 Introduces what we mean by auditory memory

https://youtu.be/PtaksotLwMA

Part 4 looks at shaping the environment a child or young person is in

https://youtu.be/JjvTm-99icc

This webinar looks at how to support narrative development across all age ranges and across the curriculum. It is divided into three parts of 10-15 minutes each to make it easier to watch.

We would recommend you watch all three parts in order if watching for the first time.

Part 1 provides the background knowledge that you will need to support children’s development of narrative skills. It introduces narratives and why they’re so important, as well as how children learn narratives and how they are structured.

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Part 2 looks at how we can support children’s narrative development from ages 4-16 years and some of the resources that are available.

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Part 3 discusses setting targets that are relevant to the curriculum.

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Downloadable resources:

• Narrative webinar handout
• Example narrative targets

Details of resources referred to in the webinar:

• ‘Reception Narrative Pack’ by Black Sheep Press
• ‘Speaking and Listening Through Narrative’ by Black Sheep Press
• ‘From Oral to Written Narrative: A Pack of Activities and Ideas Aimed at Key Stage 2’ by Black Sheep Press
• ‘Narrative Intervention Programme’ by Victoria Joffe
• ‘The SHAPE CODING™ System’ devised by Susan Ebbels

This webinar looks at how to support understanding and development of pragmatic language across all key stages, but with more focus on key stage 2 and above.

It’s divided into 5 parts of 5 to 10 minutes each. We recommend you watch all five parts in order.

Webinar part 1: What do we mean by Pragmatic Language?

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Webinar part 2: What do we mean by non-verbal communication?

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Webinar part 3: Language for Behaviour and Emotions – theory to practice

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Webinar part 4: Inference, sarcasm, ambiguous and non-literal language.

While watching part 4 of the webinar you’ll be asked to pause the webinar and watch a couple of other YouTube videos that illustrate the points being made.

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Here are the links to those other videos on YouTube mentioned in the 4th part of the webinar:

• Sarcasm Sign – The Big Bang Theory HD
• “Was That Sarcasm?” – Sheldon Cooper – The Big Bang Theory
• I haven’t had sex in six months – The Big Bang Theory

Webinar part 5: Rounding off, target setting, and beyond therapy.

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Downloadable resources:

• To therapy and beyond handout
• Receptive language part 3 pragmatic language handout

This webinar is for parents/carers and early years practitioners who want to learn more about the best ways to support early language skills in young children. The child/children you support will be communicating using a combination of sounds and gestures.

The webinar goes through how to support children’s early language development using ten simple strategies you can practise at home or where care is provided.

It has been broken down into five parts of 10-15 minutes each to make it easier to watch. We recommend you watch all five parts in order if watching for the first time, but you could dip in to relevant parts if you wanted a refresher.

Part 1 introduces the ten top tips and covers the first three tips 

• Follow your child’s lead
• Be face-to-face and get your child’s attention first
• Put your child’s message into words

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Part 2 covers tips 4 and 5

• Build opportunities to communicate
• Make language learning fun

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Part 3 covers tips 6, 7 and 8

• Copy your child’s sounds and actions
• Use simple repetitive language
• Use gestures, actions and demonstrations

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Part 4 covers the final two tips 9 and 10

• Offer choices
• Ask fewer questions

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Part 5 summarises the 10 tips and how to practise them within special time.

It also covers how to expand your child’s language as a next step, and how to access the speech and language therapy service.

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Information to accompany early language development training:

• 10 top tips for talking. 
• Top 10 tips – video links and further information