How I extend the reach (1): Preparing for independence
Author: Debbie Halden, Kirsty Ferguson & Jill Kennedy
Magazine issue: Summer 07
Page numbers: 24-25
Date: 28 May 2007
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Many school children with speech and language difficulties in West Lothian do not receive therapy because they are not sufficiently high priority or have been discharged for failing to attend clinic. One cluster of primary schools used its budget to fund two new graduate speech and language therapists for six months to prepare class teachers, school support staff and support for learning teachers to offer children increased opportunities to develop social skills, phonological awareness, vocabulary and play. Debbie Halden, Kirsty Ferguson and Jill Kennedy report.
