[senco-forum] specific language difficulty

average non verbal IQ, but poor language ability. He has poor

The children that I have worked with who were assessed as having such
difficulties had been referred to SALT, sometimes by GPs, sometimes as a
result of our EP obsserving and assessing them.  All of the useful and
effective materials that were provided for us to use in school came from
the SALT therapist working with each child and were specifically aimed at
individual needs.  Some came from Black Sheep publishing, I think.

We found that therapists varied in what they would offer as feedback, but
that if we asked how we could help, they were only too pleased to provide
resources.  One very good one said that they often felt that teachers had
enough to do without them expecting extra, but that they felt more was
gained when they could work with schools.

Perhaps your local SALT team could help with this boy?

Regards

Jean

S Wales

 We have a 10 year old boy with specific language difficulty/impairment  -
> average non verbal IQ, but  poor language ability. He has poor
> phonological
> processing. I've just read a research paper of Maggie Snowlings about the
> differences between SLI and dyslexia, and how they should be looked upon
> as
> different things but it didn't go into intervention. Do any of you teach
> children with specific language impairments and if so have you found
> anything particularly useful - this boy has a reading age of about 7
> years.
>
> Fiona
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