Speech and Language Therapist Sinead Campbell gives some advice on making the most of interactions with your 12-18 month old to help their speech and language skills.

Western University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. Western University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA. Did you know that animal sounds can be crucial to ...

With pandemic disruption increasing the number of children experiencing speech and language difficulties, policymakers are stepping up early intervention efforts to address communication needs. The ...

Many students will arrive in year 7 with unidentified speech, language, and communication needs (SLCN) – and the older they get the harder they are to identify. One in 10 children and young people are ...

BBC Tiny Happy People is an initiative aimed at improving the speech, language and communication (SLC) skills of 0–4-year-old children across the UK. We help parents and carers truly believe that they ...

Speech therapy is a treatment for speech, language, and voice disorders. During speech therapy, you or your child works with a speech-language pathologist (SLP), who teaches you how to speak more ...

One in four children starting school now has a speech or language delay. It can hold back their learning, affect their friendships and harm their mental health. Speech therapists are struggling to ...

The north is facing an early years communication crisis as an increasing number of young children are unable to get speech and language therapy appointments, it has been warned. New figures from the ...

A guide to the early stages of communication by I CAN speech therapist and consultant Kate Freeman Babies are hardwired to communicate right from birth, but all children need help to learn to talk.

An East Belfast mother is calling for more awareness of Developmental Language Disorder, also known as DLD, which affects around 8 per cent of children in N. Ireland. Sue Bride from East Belfast has ...

More than 75,000 children in England are waiting for speech and language therapy – an all-time high, figures show. NHS England data from May shows 97,824 people in the community waiting for help ...