Nursery World - 10 top techniques to develop children’s speech and language

I CAN's speech and language expert Jon Gilmartin shares his tips for early years practitioners

With the best summer we’ve had for many years giving us all a good excuse to slow down and snooze in the shade, let’s not forget that we can create opportunities to support children’s speech and language development whatever the weather, wherever we are and have fun while we do.

Here are I CAN’s 10 top techniques to develop children’s speech, language and communication skills in an early years setting or classroom.

Jon has been a qualified speech and language therapist (SLT) for over 14 years. He is a member of I CAN’s Advisory team of specialist teachers and speech and language therapists. Jon’s work includes specialist provision for services working with children with severe to profound speech, language and communication needs. He helped to develop the licensing scheme for the launch of I CAN’s award nominated intervention Talk Boost and worked with the evaluation team on the development and roll out of I CAN’s early years intervention, Early Talk Boost.

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