After a month, to enable him to settle and gain confidence and after discussion with his parents, Damian was referred to the Speech and Language Therapy Department for a detailed assessment and advice. A programme of support was developed with his father, keyworker, SENCO and speech and language therapist. Initially this focused on developing his attention and listening skills. Damian was encouraged to take part in a range of activities at home and school involving visual and aural attention and memory skills. The activities used resources that particularly interested Damian including cars, Bob the Builder and a train set.
Staff also wanted to help develop Damian's level of comprehension. Language was modelled to him during his chosen activities, with the adults describing his actions as they played alongside him. His own spoken language was repeated in an extended form to model more complex sentence construction.
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