Before three-year-old Aimee Stoppard gained a place at an I CAN early years centre, her notes were full of incidents of disruptive behaviour. Since then, Aimee has blossomed into a different child and is now described by her teacher as warm and outgoing, with a lovely personality.
This transformation is a source of great joy to Aimee's parents and teachers and is testimony to the success of the I CAN approach to dealing with speech and language difficulties.
Aimee succeeded in gaining a place on the programme in the nursery at Buckland Infants School in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, at the beginning of last year because her speech problems were severe.
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