Achieving Speech & Language Targets is a practical resource book for Special Needs Coordinators (SENCOs), teachers, teaching assistants and speech & language therapists who are working with children who have significant language delay and who are in their first year at school.

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Achieving Speech & Language Targets is a practical resource book for Special Needs Coordinators (SENCOs), teachers, teaching assistants and speech & language therapists who are working with children who have significant language delay and who are in their first year at school. Checklists provide professionals with a shared reference from which both broad special needs areas and specific speech and language targets can be identified. The authors emphasise the crucial role of play in language development and the book offers more than 200 games and activities to help children achieve their targets for each stage using a simple, structured layout.

232pp, A4, wire-o-bound

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Contents Introduction; How to use this book; Activities for understanding language; Activities for using language; Discriminating, making and using speech sounds; Resources.

About the authors Catherine Delamain is a paediatric speech & language therapist with 41 years experience. She has worked and collaborated closely with nursery, special and mainstream schoolteachers. She is now delivering a rolling programme of training for mainstream teachers in Key Stage 1 enhancing teacher ability to meet the needs of children with speech and language impairment. Jill Spring is a speech & language therapist specialising in child speech and language disorder. She has worked in a variety of paediatric settings including community clinics, assessment centres, opportunity playgroups and mainstream schools. She is currently Senior Clinician in a speech and language base providing an outreach service to pupils with severe speech and language impairment.

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