2-3 years: What can I do as a practitioner? - More help

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Helping children to settle in your setting

Common topics for discussion and support in this age bracket may include responsive parenting, behaviour, sleep patterns, toilet training, oral health, play and ensuring a language-rich home learning environment.

Signpost parents to Health Visiting Team covering Stoke on Trent or Staffordshire Families and Wellbeing 0-19  service for information and advice on ways to promote optimal growth and development. 

Staffordshire SEND Local Offer and Stoke SEND Local Offer – provide information on local services and support available for children with a range of different needs. 

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Assess and monitor children’s communication development as part of the Early Years Foundation Stage.  If the child has English as a second language talk to parents about how the child performs in their home language.

Settings use screening tools to assess a childs needs, put in place a plan with targets using the Staged Pathway and Child Development Tool, sharing targets with parents and monitor this plan making a note of progress or ongoing difficulties.

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Consult with the SENCo – the special educational needs coordinator for the early years setting

Plan language and communication development into everyday activities and the curriculum using the Stoke Speaks Out Staged Pathway.

Speak to parents/carers to raise awareness of the importance of communication and language, share ideas on how they can help their child to develop communication and language skills, strategies they could use and share the work you are doing so it can be mirrored at home.

Use the Early Years Graduated Response Toolkit

Make a referral to speech and language service Speech and language therapists will assess the child and develop and intervention plan with targets to work on. Liaise with the speech and language service about the interventions required and what you can do to support these. It is good practice to attend the childs speech and language appointment to find out about the intervention plan and how this should be implemented throughout their learning.

Entrust Early Years Area SENCo  can  provide advice and guidance to early years providers to support children with special educational needs and disabilities and  signposting to other agencies.

Early Years Forum

The Early Years Forum - Staffordshire Early Years Forum can provide further advice, signposting and funding.

Some children need extra support to communicate by using signs, symbols, or communication aids. A speech and language therapist will be able to assess if this is necessary and support the child in accessing relevant support systems. This information will be shared with settings so it can be used throughout the childs learning.

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Carry out interventions/strategies provided by the Speech and Language Therapy Team and other professionals consulted.
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Re-screen to review progress. Provide feedback to parents/carers and Speech and Language Therapists

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