Training

Everybody Talks promotes the use of targeted level (tier 2) interventions, such as BLAST Programme, within schools and nursery settings to support children with milder attention and language challenges.

Our qualified speech and language professionals can train setting staff in how to run targeted level interventions. Settings can then be confident in supporting a greater number of children.

Targeted level interventions are not designed to replace specialist speech and language therapy delivered by qualified speech and language therapists. These programmes offer schools and nurseries an evidence-based approach for supporting the children on their roll with milder language and attention needs. However, with adaptations and guidance from a qualified speech and language therapy professional, they can often be used to support children with higher levels of need also.

For some children this may be all they need. Others will still require the specialist input from one of our qualified speech and language therapy professionals.

Contact us to find out more about the interventions we provide training in, and how we can help your staff learn how to deliver them best.

HOLLA (Holistic, Oral Language, Listening and Attention) is Everybody Talks’ own targeted level intervention, developed through our years of experience running specialist attention and language group sessions.

HOLLA has a more explicit focus on developing children’s underlying attention skills. It incorporates best practice teaching approaches, such as the utilisation of movement breaks between table-top activities and further focuses in on underlying core strength skills which often underpin ‘attention’ skills.

• HOLLA, being holistic by nature, includes activities designed to improve core strength as well as language and attention.
• The focus is always on learning through fun and incorporating different learning styles throughout each session.

We’ve delivered HOLLA in our partner schools to children between the ages of 4 and 8 years old with notable improvements observed through the varied and fun activities included in the programme.

Vocabulary development is key to understanding and communicating effectively and efficiently.

We strive to keep up with best-practice vocabulary teaching strategies and encourage our school partners to implement these across their settings. Our speech and language therapists can offer informal training and support to implement these strategies in classrooms and across schools.

We recommend a number of published targeted level vocabulary interventions to support children’s vocabulary development and word finding skills in Key Stage 1-3. Additionally, we have taken the time to differentiate these programmes to make them more accessible to children who would not otherwise be able to access them in their published form.