Please see the resources below which are designed to support your child’s Communication and Eating and Drinking development. It is recommended that you only access the resources suggested to you by a Speech and Language Therapist.
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.
Early Communication Resources
- Anticipation Play
- Creating Opportunities for Communication
- Intensive interaction
- Lets Get Talking Video Strategies
- People Play – With Toys
- People Play – With Toys: More Ideas
- 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
Speech Sound Information
- Advice about Children with Speech Sound Difficulties For Primary School Teachers
- Listening to Sounds
- Listening to Sounds in Words
- Speech Sound Development by Age
Speech Sound Resources
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
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
- 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
Stammering
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
Eating and Drinking
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
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
Voice
Bilingualism
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
Useful Websites
Links to websites to support your child’s communication and eating and drinking development.
- ACE Centre
- Action for Stammering Children
- Afasic
- BBC Tiny Happy People
- Bild
- 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
- STAMMA
- Stories with Signs
- Talking Point
- Widgit
- Words for Life