Nursery World - Standards set for language therapy

An accreditation scheme for providers of early years services is set to break new ground for helping children with speech and language problems to develop communication skills. I CAN, the education charity for children with speech and language difficulties, has devised a scheme of integrated therapy and education for children up to five years old which is the first of its kind in the UK. Early years services that adopt the ICANscheme can be regularly audited on a set of 150 standards and receive training and professional development for staff.

I CAN, the education charity for children with speech and language difficulties, has devised a scheme of integrated therapy and education for children up to five years old which is the first of its kind in the UK. Early years services that adopt the ICANscheme can be regularly audited on a set of 150 standards and receive training and professional development for staff.

Research at London's City University commissioned by ICANfound that, compared with children receiving routine speech and language therapy at NHS clinics, those undergoing work with I CAN made significantly greater improvements in productive vocabulary, language comprehension and social behaviour.

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