Description
Achieving Speech & Language Targets is a practical resource designed for Special Needs Coordinators (SENCOs), teachers, teaching assistants, and speech & language therapists working with children who have significant language delays in their first year at school. This book provides a range of checklists, games, and activities that help professionals identify and address both broad special needs and specific speech and language targets.
The authors highlight the vital role of play in language development and offer more than 200 structured games and activities to support children in achieving their speech and language goals. The resource is laid out in a clear, simple format, making it easy for educators to follow.
Key features of the book include:
- Advice on creating effective Individual Education Plans (IEPs)
- Checklists to help identify issues in language understanding, spoken language, and speech sounds
- A wide variety of games, songs, and rhymes for targeting specific speech and language skills
- Teaching ideas, target lists, and key vocabulary for each stage of development
- A resources section with photocopiable activity sheets, games, rhymes, and a booklist
- Techniques used by speech & language therapists to promote language understanding and usage
- A dictionary of speech & language terminology
This essential tool is ideal for busy teaching staff, offering activities that can be easily incorporated into the everyday curriculum. Most of the activities use materials readily available in early years classrooms, making learning dynamic and engaging through play.
