… This study has explored three types of provision; namely, language units, specialist language
schools and other special provision not specifically for children with language difficulties. …

… on specialist educational provision (namely, language units in England) and also to explore
opinions concerning language difficulties for young people, their parents and their teachers. …

… Language units are specialist provision within the mainstream schools that typically admit
children with SSLD from a wider area than the normal catchment area. They have been the …

… was whether children in specialist provision (IRs and special schools) had higher levels of
need than those in mainstream schools for measures of language and literacy across three …

… The issues raised impact directly on the ways in which the needs of children with specific
speech and language difficulties (SSLD) are addressed. This debate was reflected in a UK …

… The teachers comprised those working in specialist provisions, but also those in mainstream
schools. In this paper data derived from the interviews with the teachers, supplemented by …

… Lindsay G, Dockrell J, Mackie C, Letchford B (2005b) The roles of specialist provision for
children with specific speech and language difficulties in England and Wales: A model for …

… Planning SLT service provision not only requires information about the proportion of
children referred for assessment of speech and language difficulties, but also reliable data …

… The next extract is an example of an assessment where the practitioners attempted to
establish whether a “communication (language) difficulty” was a cause or an effect of some other “…

… But, in practice, most of the educational ‘business’ for children with primary language
difficulties takes places in pre-school facilities, mainstream nurseries, resource bases and …