Supporting parents of children with communication difficulties: a model.
The project focuses on 'shared listening' from a structured developmental framework of 'sound/no sound awareness' to basic 'phonological awareness' linking it to the Foundation Curriculum: Early Years Goals (Department for Education and Employment 2000) and National Literacy Framework (Department for Education and Employment 1998). The project is based around parents borrowing topic bags where their children have been identified by speech and language therapy/specialist language and communication support teachers as having listening/phonological difficulties. Following a simple screening assessment parents borrow the bags weekly for a potential 30 weeks. These have been shown to have an effect on both parental attitudes to helping listening (practically-based and focused) and their children's listening skills.
Stevens
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Sunderland Learning Support Service, Stannington Centre, Stannington Grove, Sunderland, SR2 9JT. leslie.stevens@onyxnet.co.uk
Watson
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Dodd
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D003147:Communication Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D007808:Language Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D010290:Parents