Supporting Sentence Development in Young Children – 2 Hours

Overview

In this practical two hour session, learners will have the opportunity to deepen their understanding and build confidence in identifying and supporting children who are using only a few words or who may be struggling to combine words and extend their sentences.

The session will focus on recognising both the communication strengths and areas of difficulty in a focus child. Using this insight, learners will then develop a communication profile that can inform both general and targeted strategies to support the language development.

Outcomes

• To understand the importance of foundation pre-verbal skills for robust communication development.
• Develop confidence to identify delays in understanding that could be impacting on sentence length.
• To be able to identify the vocabulary / words that are integral to extending sentence length.
• To be able to develop practical support strategies that can be used throughout the day within all interactions as well as targeted activities.