ELSEC for professionals
ELSEC is a DfE pilot programme, with education and health professionals working together to build capacity amongst schools, settings and parents to improve the outcomes for children with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN).
Locally, we're using Talk Boost as the main intervention to identify and support children with language needs in year 1, reception and the pre-school year. Additionally, the ELSEC team offer a dedicated HLTA for intervention, training and support in every setting involved, with a specialist teacher or speech therapist leading communication audits and parent workshops.
Additional specialist interventions include Building Early Sentence Therapy (BEST), Concept Cat and the narrative pack.
Overall aims of the programme include:
- Early intervention to address SLCN, thus increasing life outcomes for children and young people
- To increase capacity amongst school and nursery staff to meet the needs of children with SLCN
- Increased understanding of and access to the universal offer for parents to support their children with SLCN
- A reduction in the number of speech and language referrals so that the most appropriate referrals can be seen in a timely manne
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