This article reports a series of interviews with education and health practitioners. The aims
were to identify interventions used in practice with children with speech, language and …

Background: The Child Talk study aimed to develop an evidence-based framework to
support the decision-making of speech and language therapists (SLTs) as they design and …

This research report was commissioned before the new UK Government took office on 11
May 2010. As a result the content may not reflect current Government policy and may make …

In this article, James Law, Marie Gascoigne and Nina Soloff, of the Department of Language
and Communication Science at City University, London; Geoff Lindsay and Sue Band, of the …

Children and young people with speech, language and communication needs raise
considerable challenges for professionals in terms of both the identification and nature of …

Background: Increased demand for access to specialist services for providing support to
children with speech, language and communication needs prompted a local service review …

The 100 or so delegates to the Children's Services event held in September 2004 enabled a
representative sample of the professional membership to discuss models of service delivery …

Objectives To test an alternative Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) service delivery
model based on partnerships between a University and local schools and charities, and to …

Background: Clinical services in the UK are increasingly delivering 'consultative'methods of
intervention rather than 'direct'intensive input for children with receptive and expressive …

Objectives The paper presents a research study investigating the effectiveness and
acceptability of community speech and language therapy provision for preschool children …