AET Progression Framework

The AET Progression Framework is intended to assist practitioners in identifying areas where autistic pupils may require additional support, so that specific programmes can be planned and implemented. It can also provide evidence of the effectiveness of such support. It is recommended that, where possible, discussions about learning needs, interventions and progress involve the pupil, their parents or carers and all those who work with them. 

Free to download

Afasic

Afasic produces free downloads with vital information for parents and professionals about talking, understanding language and getting the right help. They offer free downloads, free parent support days and workshops, and useful links to mobile apps and other support

Free resources on website

Bedrock Learning

Bedrock offers Bedrock Vocabulary, a nine-year digital literacy and vocabulary curriculum designed for students of all abilities in KS2, KS3 and KS4 (Years 3-11), and Bedrock GCSE Literature schemes, a growing range of units to support learning of specific texts and terms for KS4 students.

Pricing on request

Bell Foundation

The Bell Foundation have an EAL assessment framework that can be useful for assessing young people new to English.

Free

Black Sheep

Black Sheep Resources for teachers and speech and language therapists working with young people with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) and speech, language & communication needs (SLCN).

Individual resources from £5.

Primary Bundle, £1796.00

Boardmaker

Boardmaker provides a wide range of symbol-based communication and visual supports which can be used around the environment, for displays and to create visual timetables.  

Tiered pricing depending on number of installations or packages.

Inclusive Solutions offer a 1 year subscription for multiple users to Boardmaker Online for £585. 

Boardmaker V6 is available for £203 and allows for two installations.

Brick by Brick Programme

The Brick by Brick programme by Play Included uses Lego to develop social connection and interaction and is recommended for use with autistic young people rather than Lego Therapy.

Building Friendships is a free whole-class resource for schools, to help develop social and emotional learning through collaborative LEGO® Play.

BVPS

British Picture Vocabulary Scale (BVPS) can be used to assess vocabulary development and identify any delay in language development.

£261 for the test kit and £20 for additional record forms

Bury Speech and Language Therapy Service

The Paediatric Community Speech and Language Therapy Team  provides treatment, support and care for young people who have difficulties with communication, or with eating, drinking and swallowing. Requests for assessments can be made by parents, GPs, Health Visitors, School Nurses, Paediatricians, Special Educational Needs Coordinators or other professionals involved with the young person.

Free – referral based.

Request form

Bury Inclusion Service

The Inclusion Service provide outreach support to schools to help them meet young people’s special educational needs.

Free

CAMHS

CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services) offer specialist mental health support to young people experiencing difficulties with their mental health in Bury.

Referral based service, free at the point of access.

Circle of Friends

Circle of Friends is an approach to enhancing the inclusion, in a mainstream setting, of any young person who is experiencing difficulties in school because of disability, personal crisis or because of their challenging behaviour towards others. Circle of Friends works by mobilising the young person’s peers to provide support and engage in problem solving with the person in difficulty. This intervention is aimed at young people aged 5 to 18 years.

Creating Circle of Friends Book £17.99

Contact Bury EPS, edpsych@bury.gov.uk for further information on their training package and intervention delivery.

Communication Trust

The Communication Trust offer a range of information and tools to enable practitioners to improve their practice, many of which are free to download. Their resources include the communication development pyramid. Staff can be trained in the pyramid and to understand how to adapt their communication cues so that they can ‘step up’ or ‘step down’ with a young person as necessary.

Free

Elklan

Elklan have a range of courses to suit you whether you are an early years worker, teacher or assistant working with young person with Speech, Language and Communication Need (SLCN). Their courses will enable you to develop the speech and language skills of ALL young people but especially those with speech and language difficulties. Delivered by local tutors throughout the UK they gives practical advice and strategies that are also suitable for young people with English as an additional language and other special educational needs.

Elklan courses are run locally by the Salford Speech and Language Therapy Service. Courses run regularly throughout the year and can also delivered for individual schools. Please discuss training with your Link SLT.

ICAN

ICAN children’s communication charity offering resources and training to support children with communication needs

Free resources on website.

Language Link (Secondary)

Secondary Language Link can be used to support young people (11-14 years old) with mild to moderate language and communication needs and those new to English.

£250 - £1095 dependent on number of young people

Makaton

Makaton is a language programme that uses symbols and signs alongside speech.

Products range from £7 - £40 Full collection available for £325

Mentoring

Mentoring involves pairing young people with an older peer or adult to acts as a positive role model) and to support with personalised goal setting. The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) provides a free toolkit to guide implementation in schools.

Free toolkit to guide implementation

Narrative Intervention Program

Narrative Intervention Program is a program to improve the story telling skills of young adults/young people in secondary school.  

£95

PASS

PASS (Young person Attitude to Self and School - Self report questionnaire identifying young people’s feelings towards school and learning

£2.75 per questionnaire

PECS

PECS [Picture Exchange Communication System] - an alternative/augmentative communication system in which simple picture cards are used to communicate simple needs initially, working towards more complex sentence structures.

£65 for training manual

Additional products £5 - £50

PODD (Pragmatic Organisation Dynamic Display)

PODD is a book or device that contains symbols and words to support communication between people with complex communication needs and their communication partners (family, friends or teaching staff).

Software bundles to create communication books start from £199

Proloquo2Go

Proloquo2Go. Young people and adults who cannot speak can use this Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) app for iOS as a daily communication tool and to build language skills. From the first time someone opens the app, a few taps are all it takes to start talking to the world.

£250

Racing to English

Racing to English have some useful activities to support young people who are new to English.

£45 + £5 postage

Raising Awareness of DLD

RADLD | Raising Awareness of Developmental Language Disorder gives free information and fact sheets about Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), as well as a range of helpful resources

Free resources on website

Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists

The RCSLT support speech and language therapists by providing leadership, setting professional standards, facilitating research and promoting better education and training.

Various training opportunities – some free and delivered online.

Sea Bridge

An online curriculum for for staff working with neurodivergent and autistic children aged 5-10 years. 40 ready make workshops focusing on communication skills and self-advocacy.

Can access a free 7 day trial

Free resources available

Selective Mutism Manual

The Selective Mutism Manual is a comprehensive and practical manual that is grounded in behavioural psychology and anxiety management and draws on relevant research findings as well as the authors' extensive clinical experience to provide guidance for the Early Years through to adolescence. 

£45.99

Sliding in Technique

The ‘Sliding in Technique’ is a process that can be used to support a young person to talk in front of new people, where the new person ‘slides in’ very gradually.

Free

Speech Link/Language Link

A Speech Link subscription allows you to carry out as many assessments and interventions as you wish across an academic year. It gives you access to online training for as many support staff as you wish and unlimited access to the interactive listening games.

Total cost in start-up year - £330

Cost in follow on years - £180

Social Thinking

Social Thinking gives strategies to teach essential life skills such as socio-emotional learning and self-regulation across all environments.

$60 plus P&P from US

Social Use of Language Program (SULP)

The SULP [Social Use of Language Program] is a framework for personal, emotional and social development from a communication and thinking skills perspective, providing multisensory activity sequences with interactive stories.

Free video links on website

TALC 2

The TALC 2 (Test of Abstract Language Comprehension) ELKLAN resource was designed to help speech and language therapists, education staff and the wider workforce to assess and develop the verbal reasoning skills of young people aged 11 and over.

£45 plus P&P

Talkabout (inc. Talkabout for Teens)

Talkabout is a complete programme for developing self-esteem, social and friendship skills.

£10 - £40 per book

Talk for Writing

Talk for Writing is a teaching framework that enables young people to imitate the language they need for a particular topic orally, before reading and analysing it, and then writing their own version.

One day training with a school or small cluster (from 9am to 3.30pm) costs £1250 plus expenses for up to 50 delegates. If numbers exceed 50, then there is an additional fee of £50 per person. A day’s consultancy from 9am to 3.30pm costs £850 plus expenses.

Resources £5 - £30 per book

Talking Maths

Talking Maths is a 10-week intervention programme which targets speaking and listening skills in the context of mathematical language.

EY – KS3 bundle, £45

Talking Points Progress Checker (ICAN)

These Talking Point Progress Checkers have been written by speech and language therapists, based on typical developmental milestones from 6 months – 11 years. Their resources can help you identify signs of a young person who is struggling to communicate, and ensure they get the support they need.

Free

TEACCH

The TEACCH approach aims to respond to the needs of autistic people using the best available approaches and methods known so far, for educating and teaching autonomy. It is not a single method and can be used alongside other approaches.

Free guidance on website

Widgit

Widgit provides a wide range of symbols that can be used to signpost around the classroom environment, for displays and to create visual timetables.

Widgit Essentials Bundle has tiered pricing depending on number of installations. £289 – 1 installation

Up to £1449 for 30 installations

Word Aware

Word Aware  is a structured whole school approach to promote the vocabulary development of all young people.

One day training currently £1100 plus expenses

WRAT

Wide Range Achievement Test - assess and monitor the reading, spelling, and maths skills.

£182.40 for a kit plus from £3.60 for additional forms and resources.

Zones of Regulation

Zones of Regulation is an intervention that supports the development of self-regulation and emotional control.

Free resources on website