Oak National Academy January 2021 Update

The Oak National Academy website has some Speech and Language resources which may be useful for your child. The specialist area of the website now includes units for:

Attention and Listening

Interaction and Communication

Understanding Language

Using Language

Verbal Reasoning

Emotional Regulation and self esteem

Each unit contains several video lessons to help you support your child.

You can find these resources at the following address:

https://classroom.thenational.academy/specialist/therapies/speech-and-language-therapy

BBC Teach School Radio EYFS: Listen and Play.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/eyfs-listen-and-play-index/zrrvhbk

The episodes on this website are all designed to support speech and language development in Nursery and Reception children.

Further information and guidance is available at the bottom of the page.

Puzzles and Jigsaws

Playing puzzles with your child can help them to develop their receptive and expressive language (what they understand and what they say).

Playing a simple jigsaw or puzzle can develop many different communication skills, for example attention and listening, turn taking, verbal reasoning, description and positional language.

This website contains a number of different jigsaws ranging from easy to hard. You can use these puzzles as a starting point for a discussion.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/curations/cbeebies-jigsaw-puzzles

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/puzzles/type/puzzles-and-jigsaws#filter

Barrier Games

Barrier games help to develop both receptive and expressive language (what we understand and what we say). A barrier game can be played by two or more people. Each person takes in it turn to tell the other person (or people) what to do but because there is a barrier the game relies completely on communication.

The two videos below show how you can play barrier games at home.