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Speech and Language Link helps schools to support children with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN). They provide interventions, standardised screening assessments and training in the use of these tools. The program includes 26 intervention plans, online training for staff, interactive listening games for early literacy, and progress tracking tools. Everything offered is designed by their speech and language therapy team and backed up by a specialist help desk. Speech and Language Link work with individual schools, MATs, Local Authorities and NHS Speech and Language Therapy teams.
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Who is this resource designed for?

This resource is suitable for children with: Speech, language + communication difficulties

Age Group: 4 - 8

Intended outcome(s): Improve children's speech sound production. Enable early identification of speech sound difficulties. Enhance communication skills which support early literacy development.

Does this resource also support student health/wellbeing? No

Developed by: Speech Link Multimedia

This resource is: PAID FOR

Resource Delivery

Resource type: Practical training for staff, Education/information for staff, Practical strategies, Screening tools

Resource delivered by: Anyone

Training required: Course

Notes on training: The package includes training modules for school staff to help them effectively use the screening and intervention tools.

Evaluations

Has this resource been co-developed with the community? No

Educator
score

7.0

Evidence
rating

7.0

Educator Appraisal

When you start using the resource, you conduct a 15-minute assessment to identify issues, and this is nice and quick and looks easy to do. The ability to track children's progress using this test is helpful. The resource has lots of useful information for delivering strategies and helping to communicate with home. However, it is really expensive to use and may not provide much more knowledge that teachers are already likely to have. Schools who cannot fund the resource might get better value from less costly and time intensive training courses on identifying and supporting speech and language problems.

Evidence Rating

Speech and Language Link provide lots of separate studies utilising various methods to show that Speech and Language Link does improve outcomes for students and is well received by teachers. However, it is important to note that this evidence is provided by the developers themselves and is not peer reviewed, with minimal details of the methods used available, which means that while this points towards positive effects, the trustworthiness of the evidence can not be determined. The evidence is rated as applicable because there is not sufficient detail of control groups available to identify whether the studies were controlled appropriately or how baseline characteristics of participants may have varied across groups.