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Training

We have training videos in the Children’s Speech and Language Therapy service. These videos are for parents, carers and educational settings to help their understanding of a child’s speech, language and communication needs, and how to support them.

Some videos are available to everyone. You can find the links to these videos below.

Other videos are only shared when they are needed. If any of these videos would help your child or young person, we will send you the link after you have spoken to someone from our team.

Training videos

Attention and Listening

This video tells you about:

what is attention, hearing and listening?
how attention and listening develops?
how to notice when your child and/or young person is finding it hard to attend or listen?
things to do to help attention and listening.

Link to the Attention and Listening video

Attention and Listening Training Handout

Games for Attention and Listening

Colourful Semantics

This training video tells you about how to use Colourful Semantics to support a child's understanding of question words, and the development of spoken sentence structure and vocabulary.

Link to the Colourful Semantics to the training video.

Resources to go with this training:

Colourful Semantics training handout

Colourful Semantics question cards

Hulk visual

Makaton signs for question words

Vocabulary symbols and pictures to describe

Sentence strip 5 (animal)

Sentence strip 6 (animal)

Narrative

This training video tells you:

what narrative is?
how to recognise when a child is experiencing difficulties with their spoken language?
why narrative skills are important?
how to assess a child's narrative skills and track their progress?
how to support the development of narrative skills at home and at school?

Link to the Narrative to the video

Resources to go with this video

Narrative training handout

Narrative training - extra information

Bookmark

Memory for communication

This training video tells you:

what do memory difficulties look like?
what is memory?
what can affect our memory?
how can we support children/young people with memory difficulties?

Link to the Memory for communication to the training video.

Handout for this training.

Self-restricted eating

This video is about:

Reducing mealtime anxieties
Supporting positive mealtimes
Providing advice on how to gradually start to increase the range of foods your child is happy to eat.

Link to Self Restricted Eating video

Supporting and developing vocabulary and concepts - early years

The video will help you learn about:

How children learn to talk
Why new words matter - and how learning lots of words helps children in school and in life.
Ways to help your child every day - ideas adults can use during play, mealtimes; and other daily routines.

Link to Supporting and Developing Vocabulary and Concepts in the Early Years training video

Vocabulary and Concepts in the Early Years Training Handout

Supporting and developing vocabulary and concepts - school age

The video will help you learn about:

Why new words matter - and how learning lots of words helps children/young people in school and in life.
How to spot children/young people who have gaps in their vocabulary
Ways to help the child/young person using every day activities
Ways to help the child/young person at school

Link to the Supporting and Developing Vocabulary and Concepts in School Aged Children training video

Vocabulary and Concepts School Aged Training Handout

Word Map

The Communication Chain

Supporting children with selective mutism

The video will help you learn about:

What selective mutism is.
Spot the common signs.
Understand how it develops.
Learn how children/young people get help in Shropshire.
Be able to help your child/young person while they are in their nursery or school.
Be able to help your child/young person at home.

Link to Supporting Children with Selective Mutism training video

Verbal Reasoning