Online training – Warrington Children’s Speech and Language Therapy
Verbal Reasoning
Verbal reasoning is a form of problem solving using language, it is commonly used in the classroom environment.
This training explains the four Blank Levels of verbal reasoning skills, and questions and activities you can use at each level to support a child to develop their skills further.
Working Together to Develop Social Communication Skills in Young Children
This training will explain what social communication difficulties are and why they might happen.
It will provide school staff and parents with resources and strategies to help support social communication difficulties experienced by young people.
Social Communication Training for Older Children
This training will explain what social communication difficulties are and why they might happen.
It will provide school staff and parents with resources and strategies to help support social communication difficulties experienced by young people.
Selective Mutism
This training will help you to understand what Selective Mutism is and the effect is has on a child.
It will provide you with strategies to support a child who is finding it difficult to talk confidently in specific environments.
Auditory Memory and Processing Skills
This training will explain what auditory memory and processing skills are, why difficulties in this area may occur and the impact these difficulties can have.
It will provide you with strategies to support the child / young person’s auditory memory and processing skills in everyday situations.
It will also provide you with resources for you to complete with the child / young person to help them to establish strategies they can use to support their auditory memory and processing skills independently.
Vocabulary and word finding skills
This training will explain what vocabulary and word finding skills are, why difficulties in this area may occur and the impact these difficulties can have.
It will provide you with strategies to use to support the child / young person’s vocabulary and word finding skills in everyday situations.
It will also provide you with resources for you to complete with the child / young person to help them to establish strategies they can use to support their vocabulary and word finding skills independently and develop these skills.
Talkabout
This training will briefly cover ‘social skills’ as a foundation for setting up the Talkabout Social Skills Groups.
It will provide school staff with the resources required for setting up the Talkabout groups including: use of the assessment materials; planning intervention; how to set up and run the groups; and how to support children to generalise the skills to the classroom and wider environments.
Working Together to Develop Early Social Communication Skills
This training will explain social communication difficulties in the early years.
It will provide Early Years staff with strategies to help support social communication skills through play and visuals strategies.
Strategies to support social communication and interaction
This training will develop understanding of social communication needs for verbal children in early years.
It will provide visual strategy ideas and strategies to support social communication and interaction skills through play.
Speech Difficulties in Young Children
Unclear speech in pre-school is not unusual. Difficulties can range from just one or two immature sounds to completely unclear speech.
Speech may be unclear for a number of reasons.
