Speech and language training and workshops

Makaton is a way for you and your child to communicate. It is designed to help hearing people with learning or communication difficulties. Makaton uses signs, gestures and pictures with speech, in spoken word order. Find out more about our Makaton taster sessions

A workshop for staff and parents to help create a communication friendly environment for children. The workshop will teach you how to bring communication and interaction skills into different settings. This can be at home or in a education environment. 

This workshop is to help professionals understand how to use the early years communication and language toolkit. The toolkit is a screening tool for toddlers and preschoolers between 1 to 5 years old.

Storytelling and understanding narrative is important for children in day-to-day conversations. These skills will help them understand the order of events. They are used when they share news, talk about events or tell stories about their day. These stories can be from their imagination or repeating the events of the day. 

Lift off to language is a speech and language programme for early years education settings. It was made to help educators develop children's speech, language and communication skills.

A workshop to help parents and professionals create a communication friendly environment for children who have not started talking. The workshop will teach you how to bring communication and interaction skills into different settings. This can be at home or in a education environment.

Join this workshop to find out more about how to support children with speech sound difficulties. This workshop is for educational professionals in early years and school settings like nursery or school.

For early years professionals in Bedford Borough and Central Bedfordshire. Talk for all is an intensive course to help practitioners identify and address challenges in communication, listening, language, and phonology. Build skills, use strategies, and support bilingualism effectively.

For professionals in Luton. Talking takes off is the early years communication champion training in Luton. Find out more about communication champions and how you can help children with the speech, language and communication skill development.

Our blank’s levels of questioning workshop is for professionals wanting to learn more about the technique. It is used to help children with their verbal reasoning and abstract language skills. Find out more about the workshop and how to book.

Learn about how to help school-aged children with vocabulary challenges. This workshop helps professionals understand how kids learn words, the impact of vocabulary struggles, and strategies to help.