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Workshops padlet

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Term 4 2026 Power of Music & Song Presentation

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Term 4 2026 Power of Music & Song Presentation

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Term 4 May 2026 Power of Music & Song session recording

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Term 4 May 2026 Power of Music & Song session recording

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2 0Communication Champion Collaborative Conversation Term 4 20260513 151635 Meeting Recording 1

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Removing barriers to learning Term 2 November 2025

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Removing barriers to learning Term 2 November 2025

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Recording - Removing barriers to learning

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Creating a language and communication supportive environment

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Removing barriers to learning -  presentation 25 November 2025 Term 2

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Removing barriers to learning -  presentation 25 November 2025 Term 2

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Presentation - Removing barriers to learning

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Using digital tools to overcome barriers to developing listening and talking skills - presentation

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Using digital tools to overcome barriers to developing listening and talking skills - presentation

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What will you take back to share with your team?

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Communication Champion Introduction Training Session 1 - Pre-course reading

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Introduce the role of the Communication Champion in ELC Settings

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Term 2 November 2025

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Break room activity and question prompts

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Break room activity and question prompts

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Term 2 November 2025

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Collaborative Conversation - ASN 30.04.25

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Collaborative Conversation - ASN 30.04.25

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Collaborative Conversation - ASN

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Communication Champion Term 4  30 April 2025

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webinar Developing spoken vocabulary in Early Years - Bing video

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Webinar: Developing spoken vocabulary within Early Years settings

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Session 1 Communication & Language   Communication Champion

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 Using digital tools to overcome barriers to developing listening and talking skills - Recording Part 1

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 Using digital tools to overcome barriers to developing listening and talking skills - Recording Part 1

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Communication &L session 5 - Create and share your videos with Clipchamp

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Watch videos made with Clipchamp, the best video maker for everyone.

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Top Tips For Reading To Children - Author Neil Griffiths - ELC

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Quality Interactions Part 1 - presentation

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Quality Interactions Part 1 - presentation

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Top tips for sharing books with babies and young children

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There’s no right or wrong way to share a story – the most important thing is to have fun together. Here are some tips to get you started, but see what works best for you and your family.

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Quality Interactions part 2 - presentation

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Quality Interactions part 2 - presentation

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Quality Interactions - Peer Supported Learning

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Quality Interactions - Peer Supported Learning

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TALLY CHART Peer Observations Quality Interactions

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Back

NHS Tayside CYP Speech & Language Therapy - YouTube

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NHS Tayside CYP Speech & Language Therapy

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Share your videos with friends, family, and the world

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Click here to access resources to create your own story basket.

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Giraffes Can't Dance story basket Resources

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Giraffes Can't Dance story basket Resources

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Maths Week Scotland - The Squirrels Who Squabbled Resources

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Maths Week Scotland - The Squirrels Who Squabbled Resources

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Story questions

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Get little ones ready to explore with Bookbug!

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1. Contact the DWF Regional Director that covers your area

Central & Southern England, Wales - Helen Hastle - [email protected]
Scotland - Kirsty Hill - [email protected]
North England and Northern Ireland - Meg Fletcher - [email protected]

Let them know you are interested in bringing the Imagination Library to your community

Ask any questions

Get our Memorandum of Agreement and Partner Information Sheet - the two documents that we'll put in place to outline our relationship and capture key information.

2. Begin building a support team.
Key roles you should consider:

Chairperson - a person to coordinate the effort

Fundraising - to identify and secure local sustainable funds

Enrollment - plan where and how to enrol children, oversee registration brochure distribution (if using) and marketing campaigns

Database - entering new registrations, accepting pending online registrations, updating addresses, utilising reports in the Book Order System (BOS)

Community Outreach - collaborate with other local organisations and coalitions. Also may collect undeliverable books from local post office

Family Engagement - plans efforts to encourage parents to better engage their children through DPIL books and read more often

*TIP - Also consider engaging other community partners to build coalitions and collective impact strategies. Ask your Regional Director for help with ideas.

3. Get Fundraising effort underway.

Engage your support team for contacts

Consider putting together an advisory council to assist

Identify potential funding partners and begin meeting with them

*TIP - At this point you should have a good plan outlined: an idea of the funds you will need, community details/facts and partners who are willing to help - this will all help make your ask more clear and direct.

4. Complete and Submit Partnership Docs

Return completed Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) and Partner Information Sheet (AIS) to your Regional Director

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United Kingdom - Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library launched in the United Kingdom in 2007 and today serves England, Northern Ireland and Scotland.

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Scottish Book Trust Reading Lists by Age

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Looking for some new reading suggestions? Browse our carefully selected book lists to find something new for you, your family or your classroom.

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Communication and Language 20230119 150321 Meeting Recording

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Additional Support Needs practice sharing - recording

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Additional Support Needs practice sharing - recording

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Additional Support Needs practice sharing - presentation

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Additional Support Needs practice sharing - presentation

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 Communication Champion Collaborative Conversation Term 1 18.09.24

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Communication Language Collaborative Conversation - Term 1 18.09.24

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Adapted Play Strategies - Reference Sheet

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Teddy Talk: Supporting EAL Children in Nursery

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Parents and children chatting together, singing songs and sharing books in their home language is a fantastic way to support children's development at this time.

The Time Together booklet is a colourful and easy-to-read guide that is full of suggestions for how parents can support their young child's learning at home. It has been translated into 22 different languages for you to share with the multilingual families in your setting or community.

Download the appropriate translated booklet from this page and let us know how you are using them to support multilingual families by emailing earlyyears@literacytrust.org.uk

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Time together - support for multilingual families | National Literacy Trust

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The easy-to-read Time Together guide comes in 22 languages and is full of suggestions for how parents can support their young child's learning at home.

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EAL PKC Primary Padlet Songs and Stories

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EAL PKC Primary Padlet Songs and Stories

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EAL PKC Primary Learning padlet 2 - Songs and Stories

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Click on links to listens to songs and stories to help you learn English.

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Word Aware Stephen Parsons February 2022

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Word Aware Stephen Parsons February 2022

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Building a Literacy Rich Environment Padlet - Inset Day 12.02.25

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Building a Literacy Rich Environment Padlet - Inset Day 12.02.25

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All of the resources form the Building a Literacy Rich Environment sessions can be accessed here.

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Welcome to NHS Tayside's Children and Young People's Speech and Language Therapy Service. We are a dedicated team working with children and young people with a range of speech, language, communication and swallowing difficulties. We work with our partners in a variety of settings including: clinics, schools, nurseries, clients' homes and hospitals.

We offer universal services for all children and young people and provide targeted input when required.

Hi! Our names are Rhyming Robin and Chatty Charlie. We are here to guide you through our CHAT website. Here you will find lots of information and tips which we hope will help you to understand speech, language and communication development in children and young people. We hope you will be able to use the tips to support a child if they need help with any area of their communication development.

Our Service

We have transformed our service to provide parents, carers and professionals with more ways to access support from a Speech and Language Therapist.
We have created a Service Guide to help you understand more about these changes. Please click on the image to see the full guide.

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Education Scotland Early Reading Resource

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Education Scotland Early Reading Resource

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The ‘Building a literacy rich environment’ section aims to support all educators from ELC and primary sectors. The ‘Developing skills for reading’ and ‘Building independent and engaged readers’ sections may be more relevant to primary teachers.

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Education Scotland is a Scottish Government executive agency responsible for supporting quality and improvement in Scottish education.

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Using data. Speech Sounds. Identifying interventions.

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Using data. Speech Sounds. Identifying interventions.

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2023.24 Communication Champion ELC PKC Term 1 (1)

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Inset 14 February 2024 Presentation includes SLT Workshops

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Inset 14 February 2024 Presentation includes SLT Workshops

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If you have any concerns regarding your child's communication and/or feeding, you can access our services by:

As a first point of access, we'd highly recommend using our Advice Line where you can speak directly to one of our Speech and Language Therapists.
Call our Advice Line on 01382 740317 Tuesdays 9.30am - 11.30am and Thursdays 4pm - 6pm

Have a look at our Facebook and Twitter pages to find hints, tips and any upcoming training. Our Social Media Team are on hand to answer any questions between 9am and 5pm. We do ask that you refrain from posting personal details and would suggest you send a private/direct message regarding specific children.
Click on the the logos to take you to these sites.

A drop in is an open session for families and professionals working with children where you can speak to a Speech and Language Therapist face to face about any concerns you may have about speech, language, communication or swallowing. You can bring your child along to this if you wish. You can see upcoming Drop ins by clicking on the image or by visiting the 'Events' section of our Facebook page

Once you have contacted us, you may be advised to attend a Chat & Play Session. This is a fun and relaxed session for parents and carers with children
under the age of 5yrs to discuss any concerns around your child's communication such as:

- the number of words your child is using for their age
- your child is not yet joining words together
- your child does not understand what you are saying to them
- your child seems disinterested or finds it difficult to communicate
- your child's speech is not as clear as you would expect for their age
- your child seems disinterested in interacting with family members,
family or peers

What to expect at the session:

During your visit, we will plan together how to best
support your child's communication. We will have experienced SLT's on hand to play with you and your child in a small group.

We would prefer you to contact us directly using our Advice Line, Social Media or Drop in sessions before completing our Request for Assistance form.
Our RFA form has been updated as of 2019. You can download it from the tab below.

We have an open RFA system which means parents/carers, as well as professionals, can complete and return a request should there be a concern regarding a child's communication skills.

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Zip File Mini Birds  - Strategies when interacting with children 

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It is designed to show the many different areas of speech, language and communication and can be useful to explain to a family what SLT do. Talking together with a family about the different aspects of their child's communication can help you and them consider both what their child can do successfully, as well as areas they would benefit from developing further.

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Children learn sounds by listening to people speaking around them. Babies begin by playing with sounds first of all and then start to babble. This babble develops into longer strings which uses a wider range of sounds.

All children make speech errors whilst they are learning to talk. Speech sounds usually develop in a predictable pattern. This means that children cannot say all sounds straight away - some sounds develop later than others.

Speech Sound Norms

By the age of 2½ your child's speech should be understood by their close family.

By the age of 3 your child's speech should be understood by familiar adults outside the home but it will not be perfect.

By the age of 4 your child's speech should be understood most of the time.

Taken from ELKLAN's 'Lets talk with under 5's'

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Term 2 2023 Assessment & Moderation of Speech & Language 

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Term 2 2023 Assessment & Moderation of Speech & Language 

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Term 2 Collaborative Conversation Recorded session -Focus- Assessment and moderation of speech, language & communication.

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Term 2 Collaborative Conversation Recorded session -Focus- Assessment and moderation of speech, language & communication.

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High quality interactions in the Early Years - The ShREC approach

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Communication and Language Session4 - Communication Champions 20220825 - Create and share your videos with Clipchamp

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Watch videos made with Clipchamp, the best video maker for everyone.

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NHS Tayside CYP Speech & Language Therapy

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nhs tayside speech and language therapy - Search Videos