The easyspeak discussion group is open to anyone with an interest in children's language and communication difficulties, and how they are supported. This includes teachers and speech and therapists, other school practitioners, students and parents.
The group is entirely in accordance with the will, in the 1997 green paper on special education, to improve services for children with language and communication difficulties. It has been set up partly to make a contribution to that effort.
Easyspeak is an open discussion group. This means that anyone with an interest in this area is welcome to participate in the discussions. All discussions will be publicly available and when you post a message, your email address will be visible to registered users.
All messages sent to easyspeak are stored in a publicly available archive. Archives are provided as an additional resource to users and enables non members to browse the messages. The archive also means that you do not have to save every message you receive from this discussion group.
To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the easyspeak Archives.
To post a message to all the list members, send email to easyspeak@lists.becta.org.uk.
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