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Advice videos

Explore our free advice videos from EPUT Children’s Speech and Language Therapy Service. Supportive tips for parents, carers, and educators to boost children's communication.

EPUT Children’s Speech and Language Therapy Service have produced a range of advice videos which are free to watch. These videos are aimed at given universal advice about a range of speech, language and communication areas which may be useful for parents/carers, grandparents, school and settings. We hope you enjoy them.

If you have any comments about the videos or any suggestions please let us know using our email address [email protected]

This animated video gives advice about how to encourage the development of single word vocabulary for children and young people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX8ZGyzobIQ

This animated video give advice about how to support children and young people to transition from use of single words to use of short phrases at home and in setting.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59_J9JIwfWI

This demonstration video covers a range of different types of visual support that can be used with children and young people at home and also in settings. It covers subjects such as use of objects or reference versus photos and pictures, first and then boards, visual timetables, personalised visual schedules and suggested activities to introduce these.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL6whdhq7j4

This short video by one of our SLTs gives basic information about sound prompts we use and some hints and tips about how to encourage sounds and sequence sounds together.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9DQwb2R_wE

This video goes through a therapy technique used with some older children to help them learn to build sentences with correct grammar. This therapy technique was developed by Susan Ebbells and information about this approach can be found at https://shapecoding.com/

This video covers general advice about how to support children and young people if they present as reluctant to talk in certain situations.

https://youtu.be/V_h16kufF5E

This video covers how it might feel for a child or young person to have Selective Mutism as an example of a ‘lived experience’ for adults supporting them.

https://youtu.be/JTSad-YwdXU

This video highlights to value of trying to use more comments and less questions when talking with children and young people to support their communication development.

https://youtu.be/-eYCN6ysdU8

Talking about stammering can be daunting and this video gives some hints and tips.

https://youtu.be/nUb5kIrwxok

Giving time to talk can make a significant positive difference to a child’s presentation.

https://youtu.be/K8clSe-zHMY

Talking about stammering in the school/classroom can be daunting and these videos give some hints and tips.

Stammering in the classroom https://youtu.be/EXw-iG1H_Oo