Language Support - Communication Interaction Team

How we can help you

The CIT Language Team supports children with Speech, Language, and Communication Needs (SLCN) as well as children, at a more specialist level, with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) as part of the graduated approach to inclusion.

How the CIT Language Team supports schools

If you have students with SLCN/DLD at your school and you feel specialist advice is needed, support can be accessed via:

• Plymouth Early Help and SEND Advice Line where you can book a phone consultation
• Signposting and resources from the Communication Interaction Team
• The Ordinarily Available Provision resource
• Discussions at your termly Planning and Consultation meetings (PCM) with your schools link Education Psychologist
• Children's Speech and Language Therapy Service; call 01752 434844 to discuss a request for help. More information can be found on Livewell Southwest's website.

We are continuing to develop the Resource Directory and a link to this will be shared with schools soon.

If you would like to discuss this further, please contact kate.farrow@plymouth.gov.uk

How the CIT Language Team currently supports secondary schools

If you have students with SLCN/DLD at your school and you feel specialist advice is needed, support can be accessed via:

• Plymouth Early Help and SEND Advice Line where you can book a phone consultation
• Signposting and resources from the Communication Interaction Team
• Using the framework: a graduated approach to Inclusion
• Discussions at your termly Planning and Consultation meetings (PCM) with your link Education Psychologist
• Children's Speech and Language Therapy Service; call 01752 434844 to discuss a request for help. More information can be found on Livewell Southwest's website.

Language resources

Parents and carers

• Transition from early years to school [PDF, 296KB]
• Transition from primary school to secondary school [PDF, 298KB]

Professionals and settings

• Graduated Approach (PDF, 140 KB)
• Developmental Language Disorder (PDF, 131 KB)
• Learn more about DLD, access resources and find out how to raise awareness
• Activities to develop attention on and listening skills [PDF, 517KB]
• Colourful semantics early years ideas [PDF, 340KB]
• Colourful semantics secondary some ideas [PDF, 733KB]
• Curriculum vocabulary [PDF, 623KB]
• Speech, language and communication advice [PDF, 102KB]
• Receptive language [PDF, 260KB]
• Communication [PDF, 486KB]
• Expressive language [PDF, 949KB]
• The Communication Trust Catalogue [PDF, 3MB]
• Round Robin [PDF, 91KB]
• SLCN Specialist [PDF, 208KB]
• SLCN Targeted [PDF, 186KB]
• SLCN Universal [PDF, 152KB]

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