Stats from a recent presentation from our superb youth justice service: over 60% of yp in contact with youth justice have difficulties with SLCN. Only 5% had these needs identified at an earlier stage.
Often young people displaying unexpected behaviours have undiagnosed #DLD. Try asking 'could it be language?' when getting to the route of the issues #devlangdis#DLDday@deStafford
Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) is persistent. People do not grow out of it. Let's provide appropriate support to people with DLD as they grow. #DLDday October 14th 2022. Find out more at https://t.co/2jeOnP2Km3
What a fantastic day! I can’t produce sensible responses to the later sessions - too much to process. But my brain is fizzing with ideas. So grateful to all who contributed! #DLDSEMHStudyDay2022
Feeling a bit overwhelmed by the amount of information this morning at #DLDSEMHStudyDay2022 It does feel amazing though to be (virtually) among so many peers. I often feel like the odd one out in my local team, so great to have a day with so many with shared interests.
Such an inspiring session from @lilacCourt at the #DLDSEMHStudyDay2022 Taking confidence, evidence and useful wording away from this. Such a welcome and clear drawing together of this topic. #DevLangDis
So much to reflect on from the first session with @JudyClegg2 at the #DLDSEMHStudyDay2022 Such a rich session in terms of thinking about research and practice. I will be following up with lots of reading.
We are giving away 100 free licences to our brilliant science #vocabulary resources. All you need to do is go to https://t.co/X25Yz0WIme, sign up and enter the code: lift_lesson_100. Make a teacher happy and share this tweet #STEM#StemEducation
Fostering and developing first language skills are crucial to students' sense of identity, belonging and second language acquisition.
Having a strong foundation in a first language acts as a springboard for second language acquisition.
#EAL#edutwitter#multilingual#equity
@JillBrennanSLT Yes, I just pick and choose what I need to use from it, but find the activities at a good level for lots of my KS3/4 students who need support in that area.
A message I want to share with adults who work with #ADHD kids is: pushing them the way that you push neurotypical kids harms them for life.
Here’s what I mean.
When I start working clinically with an adult who has ADHD, one of the first things we do /1
@JohnBaldLangLit@solomon_teach You might also be interested in our checklists for teachers to help identify and support children with language disorders
@JillBrennanSLT Talkabout Theory of Mind? Widget very handy as gives the flexibility to make bespoke resources, also consistent images for vocabulary work.