The Speech and Language therapists offer

• Systems to integrate into the classroom
• Total communication environment
• Training to staff and parents
• Speech and Language Therapy groups in class and input into lessons

• Assessment
• Support with target setting
• Eating and Drinking
• Alternative and Augmentative Communication
• Teaching of specific communication skills / strategies

• Use of sign to develop understanding and use of language
• Developing understanding of the environment through symbols, pictures and objects
• Encouraging motivation to communicate and providing methods to initiate and request.
• Introducing switches and computers to develop understanding of cause and effect.
• Supporting social interaction through play