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.
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Early Interventions Package
Ideas for professionals working with children under 5, to support their speech, language and communication development.
Early Communication
Resources
Anticipation Play
Creating Opportunities for Communication
Intensive Interaction
Lets Get Talking Video Strategies
People Play – Following Your Childs Lead
People Play Without Toys
People Play Without Toys: More Ideas
People Play With Toys
People Play With 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
Website Links
Intensive Interaction
Speech
Information sheets and activities to support your child’s speech development.
Speech Sound Development by Age
Advice about Children with Speech Sound Difficulties for Primary School Teachers
Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) Leaflet
Early Sound Play and Sound Awareness Activities
Early Sound Play
Listening to Sounds
Listening to Sounds in Words
Speech Sound Picture Sheets
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
/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
/j/ sound – Beginning of Words
/j/ sound – Middle of Words
/j/ 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
/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
/kr/ cluster- Beginning of Words
/gr/ 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
Language
Resources
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
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
Website Links
AFASIC- DLD Together
Developmental Language Disorder
Developmental Language Disorder and Me
Developmental Language Disorder: Educational Support
DLD and Me
Raising Awareness of Developmental Language Disorder
The DLD Project
Stammering
Resources
Information sheets and resources to support your child’s stammer and speech fluency.
Stammering General Facts
Stammering General Strategies
Stammering Demands and Capacities
Stammering in School Aged Children
Strategies to Support Teenagers who Stammer
Website Links
Action for Stammering Children
Michael Palin Centre for Stammering
STAMMA
Eating and Drinking
Resources
Information sheets, website links and resources to support your child’s eating and drinking development.
Information about Eating, Drinking and Swallowing Difficulties
Food Diary Template for Parents
Weaning and Development
Fussy Eaters advice from NHS
Advice handout regarding Fussy Eaters
Weaning Advice
Child Feeding Guide
Link to video on gagging
Children Born Premature
Bliss
Bliss- Weaning your Premature Baby
Elevated Side Lying Positioning for Bottle Feeding
Oral Care
Mouth Care for Children who are Non-Orally Fed
Mouth Care for Children with Eating, Drinking and Swallowing Difficulties
Reflux
Great Ormond Street Hospital- Information about Reflux
Food Textures
International Dysphagia Diet Standardisation Initiative (IDDSI)
Sensory Feeding Difficulties
Building up Tolerance
Sensory Play Toolkit
Messy Food Play
Financial Help for Food and Drink
Leicester City
Bill Help
Emergency Help for Vulnerable Families
Alice Hawkins Community Project
Leicester South
Leicestershire
Leicestershire County Council- Find help with the cost of living
Life Links- Food Banks
Rutland
Rutland Food Bank
Visual Supports
Resources
Visual supports to support your child’s speech, language and communication development.
Communication Boards
Communication Books
First and Then Boards
Objects of Reference
Communicating with Pictures or Symbols
Visual Timetables
Website Links
ACE Centre
Communication Matters
Electronic Assistive Technology Service (EATS)
Makaton
Signalong
Widgit
Voice
Information sheets and resources to support your child’s voice difficulties.
General Relaxation
Good Vocal Care
Introducing Relaxation
Learning how to Relax
Multilingualism
Information to support children with more than one language.
Growing up with more than one language
Website Links
Bilingualism – BDCT
Time together – support for multilingual families | National Literacy Trust
Autism
Links to websites and resources to support children with Autism.
Anxiety in Autism
Autism East Midlands
Autism Space
Chat Autism
National Autistic Society
Video Resources
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
Training
Links to training on speech, language and communication (SLCN).
For staff who work with children and young people in early years, primary school, secondary school and further education:
Elklan | Training for Practitioners
Speech and Language UK | Intro to SLCN
Mind Your Words – mental health e-learning course | RCSLT
The Box – free online training for professionals working in the justice sector | RCSLT
Training currently being delivered locally:
Further training dates for the Autumn Term 2025 are due to be announced shortly. Please check the website again towards the end of the Summer Term 2025 to book onto these.
For parents/ carers:
Elklan | Training for Parents/ Carers
In the Media
Listen to Kate Goodhew (Specialist Speech and Language Therapist) and Mili (Parent of a child with Developmental Language Disorder) raising awareness of Developmental Language Disorder (or DLD) on BBC Radio Leicester.
Correction: Kate meant to say ‘DLD is almost as common as dyslexia’. The prevalence of all Speech, Language and Communication Needs (SLCN) is the same as dyslexia (10%). DLD forms a large part of SLCN but not all. The prevalence of DLD is 7.6% (Norbury et al, 2016)
Other Useful Websites
Links to websites to support your child’s communication and eating and drinking development.
Information and Resources
BBC Tiny Happy People
Clear Pictoys
Dummy Use
Health for Under 5s
Health for Kids
Health for Kids | Healthy Communication
Health for Teens
Hungry Little Minds
Language for Behaviour and Emotions
Language for Thinking
Stories with Symbols
Talking to your child when you’re out and about | Words for Life
Word Aware
Words for Life
Services and Charities
Afasic
Bild
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS)
Cleft Lip and Palate Association
Communication Trust
Community Paediatrics Services
Do2Learn
Downs Syndrome Association
Early Help (City)
Early Help/ Family Help (County)
Early Help (Rutland)
Elklan
The Hanen Centre
Leicester City Local Offer
Leicestershire Local Offer
Mencap
National Deaf Children’s Society
Rutland Local Offer
Scope
Selective Mutism Information and Research Association
SENDIASS Leicester City
SENDIASS Leicestershire
SENDIASS Rutland
Solihull Approach Parenting
Speech and Language UK