Many young people with face a “life-long legacy of lost opportunities” after falling through the gap when they leave school, a report warns. The influential Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said it was “shocking” that almost a third of young adults with a statement of special educational needs (SEN) at age 16 are not in [...]
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Archive | Speech and Language
SEN pupils ‘falling through gap’
Posted on 24 February 2012.
Posted in Adhd, Autism, Dyslexia, Learning difficulties, Special Needs, Speech and LanguageComments Off
Essex primary school gives pupils elocution lessons to stop them sounding like TOWIE | Mail Online
Posted on 29 January 2012.
The Essex accent has long attracted ridicule and disapproval. But primary school teachers say it also has a damaging effect on children’s spelling and grammar. So they have introduced elocution lessons in an effort to improve pupils’ written work. The children are learning to say ‘computer’ instead of ‘computa’ and ‘aren’t’ in place of ‘ain’t’ [...]
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BBC News – National Storytelling Laureate was ‘selective mute’ as a child
Posted on 28 January 2012.
A Birmingham woman who had “issues with language” as child has been appointed the National Storytelling Laureate. Katrice Horsley said: “I would have been classed as a selective mute by today’s standards I suppose.” She said that telling stories became “her salvation” and she planned to make people aware of the importance of storytelling and [...]
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