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
Resources
Anticipation Play
Creating Opportunities for Communication
Intensive Interaction
Lets Get Talking Video Strategies
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
Website Links
Intensive Interaction
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 Development 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
/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
/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
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
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
Website Links
AFASIC- DLD Together
Developmental Language Disorder
Developmental Language Disorder and Me
Developmental Language Disorder: Guide for Teachers
DLD and Me
Raising Awareness of Developmental Language Disorder
The DLD Project
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
Website Links
Action for Stammering Children
Michael Palin Centre for Stammering
STAMMA
Resources
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
Website Links
Child Feeding Guide
International Dysphagia Diet Standardisation Initiative (IDDSI)
Resources
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
Website Links
ACE Centre
Communication Matters
Electronic Assistive Technology Service (EATS)
Makaton
Signalong
Widgit
Information sheet to support children with more than one language.
Growing up with More than One Language
Links to websites and resources to support children with Autism.
Anxiety in Autism
Autism Space
National Autistic Society
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.
Afasic
BBC Tiny Happy People
Bild
Cleft Lip and Palate Association
Communication Trust
Do2Learn
Downs Syndrome Association
Dummy Use
The Hanen Centre
Health for Under 5s
Health for Kids
Health for Teens
Hungry Little Minds
Mencap
National Deaf Childrens Society
Reluctant Speaking and Selective Mutism Resource Pack
Scope
Selective Mutism Information and Research Association
Speech and Language UK
Stories with Symbols
Words for Life