Resources
Please Note – Some of our resources are aimed at educational staff but can be accessed by parents. Please contact your child’s therapist should you require support with understanding or accessing any of our resources.
Ideas for professionals working with children under 5, to support their speech, language and communication development.
Early Interventions Package
Anticipation Play
Babbling with your Baby
Creating Opportunities for Communication
Intensive Interaction
People Play Following Your Childs Lead
People Play With Toys
People Play Without Toys
People Play Without Toys: More Ideas
Supporting Play and Exploring with a Common Object
Supporting Early Language Development
Talking Fun - 1 Year
Talking Fun - 2 Years
Talking Fun - 3 Years
Talking Fun - 4 Years
Information sheets and activities to support your child's speech development.
Advice about Children with Speech Sound Difficulties For Primary School Teachers
Listening to Sounds
Listening to Sounds in Words
Speech Sound Developmeny by Age
These speech sound resources can be used to support your child's speech sound development. The resources should be used under the guidance of your child's Speech and Language Therapist who will recommend the appropriate worksheets to use to support your child. We recommend that you don't use any speech sound resources which have not been suggested for use by your child's therapist.
/b/ sound - Beginning of Words
/b/ sound - Middle of Words
/b/ sound - End of Words
/ch/ sound - Beginning of Words
/ch/ sound - Middle of Words
/ch/ sound - End of Words
/d/ sound - Beginning of Words
/d/ sound - Middle of Words
/d/ sound - End of Words
/dg/-/j/ sound - Beginning of Words
/dg/-/j/ sound - Middle of Words
/dg/-/j/ sound - End of Words
/f/ sound - Beginning of Words
/f/ sound - Middle of Words
/f/ sound - End of Words
/g/ sound - Beginning of Words
/g/ sound - Middle of Words
/g/ sound - End of Words
/k/ sound - Beginning of Words
/k/ sound - Middle of Words
/k/ sound - End of Words
/L/ sound - Beginning of Words
/L/ sound - Middle of Words
/L/ sound - End of Words
/m/ sound - Beginning of Words
/m/ sound - Middle of Words
/m/ sound - End of Words
/n/ sound - Beginning of Words
/n/ sound - Middle of Words
/n/ sound - End of Words
/ng/ sound - End of Words
/p/ sound - Beginning of Words
/p/ sound - Middle of Words
/p/ sound - End of Words
/r/ sound - Beginning of Words
/s/ sound - Beginning of Words
/s/ sound - Middle of Words
/s/ sound - End of Words
/sh/ sound - Beginning of Words
/sh/ sound - Middle of Words
/sh/ sound - End of Words
/t/ sound - Beginning of Words
/t/ sound - Middle of Words
/t/ sound - End of Words
/v/ sound - Beginning of Words
/v/ sound - Middle of Words
/v/ sound - End of Words
/z/ sound - Beginning of Words
/z/ sound - Middle of Words
/z/ sound - End of Words
/bl/ cluster - Beginning of Words
/fl/ cluster - Beginning of Words
/gl/ cluster - Beginning of Words
/kl/ cluster - Beginning of Words
/pl/ cluster - Beginning of Words
/br/ cluster - Beginning of Words
/dr/ cluster - Beginning of Words
/fr/ cluster - Beginning of Words
/gr/ cluster - Beginning of Words
/kr/ cluster - Beginning of Words
/pr/ cluster - Beginning of Words
/tr/ cluster - Beginning of Words
/sk/ cluster - Beginning of Words
/sl/ cluster - Beginning of Words
/sm/ cluster - Beginning of Words
/sn/ cluster - Beginning of Words
/sp/ cluster - Beginning of Words
/st/ cluster - Beginning of Words
/sw/ cluster - Beginning of Words
Playing with Sounds - Full Pack
Playing with Sounds - the /b/ sound
Playing with Sounds - the /d/ sound
Playing with Sounds - the /f/ sound
Playing with Sounds - the /g/ sound
Playing with Sounds - the /k/ sound
Playing with Sounds - the /p/ sound
Playing with Sounds - the /s/ sound
Playing with Sounds - the /t/ sound
These language resources can be used to support your child's language development. The resources should be used under the guidance of your child's Speech and Language Therapist who will recommend the appropriate resources to use to support your child. We recommend that you don't use any resources which have not been suggested for use by your child's therapist.
Colourful Semantics
Following Instructions - 1 Key Word
Following Instructions - 2 Key Words
Following Instructions - 3 Key Words
Following Instructions - 4 Key Words
Sentence Building and Sentence Structure
Supporting a Child to Understand Language
Supporting a Childs Spoken Language
Supporting a Childs Vocabulary Development
Supporting Children with Word Finding Difficulties
Supporting Listening and Attention
Supporting Storytelling Skills
Understanding Questions
Word Games to Support Language Development
Information sheets and resources to support your child's stammer and speech fluency.
Stammering General Facts
Stammering General Strategies
How Stammering Can Progress
Demands and Capacities
Demands Talking
Hearing Complex Language
Interruptions and Waiting to Talk
Talking for your Child
Stammering - How to React to your Child
Stammering and Speech Sounds
Stammering - Tiredness and Consistency of Routine
Stammering and Low Confidence
Stammering - A Tricky Talking Day
Stammering - Information for Playgroups and Nurseries
Stammering - Information for Schools
Special Times Instruction Sheet
Information sheets and resources to support your child's eating and drinking development.
Bite and Dissolve Foods
Messy Food Play
Mouth Care for Children who are Non-Orally Fed
Mouth Care for Children with Eating, Drinking and Swallowing Difficulties
Visual supports to support your child's speech, language and communication development.
Communication Boards
Communication Books
First and Then Boards
Objects of Reference
Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) Introduction
Visual Timetables
Information sheet to support children with more than one language.
Growing up with More than One Language
The below resources can be used with children who have speech difficulties. Your therapist will recommend which ones to use.
Listening for the difference: sounds in words
Listening to sounds on their own: hearing the difference
Links to websites to support your child's communication and eating and drinking development.
ACE Centre
Afasic
BBC Tiny Happy People
Bild
The British Stammering Association
Child Feeding Guide
Cleft Lip and Palate Association
Communication Matters
Communication Trust
Developmental Language Disorder>Developmental Language Disorder and Me
Developmental Language Disorder: Guide for Teachers>Do2Learn
Downs Syndrome Association
Dummy Use
Electronic Assistive Technology Service (EATS)
The Hanen Centre
Health for Under 5s
Health for Kids
Health for Teens
Hungry Little Minds
iCan
Intensive Interaction
International Dysphagia Diet Standardisation Initiative (IDDSI)
Makaton
Mencap
Michael Palin Centre for Stammering
National Autistic Society
National Deaf Childrens Society
Raising Awareness of Developmental Language Disorder
Scope
Signalong
Stories with Signs>
Talking Point
Widgit
Words for Life