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Speech, Language and Communication for Health Visiting

Audience: Health Visitors
  • Foundation

This E-learning course will support your understanding of the development of communication and language for children 0-5. It will provide you with strategies to promote all children's development, and enable you to identify when children are at risk of delay. This course has been jointly written by the Equality and Inclusion, and Speech and Language Therapy teams

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  • Increase knowledge of the developmental stages of speech, language and communication in children aged 0-5 years.

  • Consider the importance of the home learning environment and how this can support communication and language.

  • Understand the importance of quality adult interactions can have to support children's language development.

  • Understand a range of strategies used to monitor and support speech, language, and communication development.

A greater understanding of how children develop language, resulting in more communication friendly practice and the confidence to identify children earlier who may have a SLCN.

  • Communciation, what is it?
  • National Priority
  • Development of Language
  • Skills of Language and Strategies
  • Home Learning Environments and Interactions Matter
  • What is Next?