Useful Documents, Advice & Guidance

This webpage has been reorganised to list documents, advice and guidance that you may find useful. They have been categorised by the areas of healthy child development and to reflect the broad areas of need by the SEND Code of Practice (Communication and Interaction / Cognition and Learning / Social, Emotional and Mental Health / Sensory and/or Physical), plus one category for systems and processes. Please use the buttons below to navigate to the area of training that you are looking for.

This new approach is a work in progress and we are hoping to make it easier to locate specific training from a number of providers by listing it all on this webpage.

If you are looking for SEND training, you can find it on this page: SEND Workforce Development

For any queries or feedback about this new approach, please contact enquiries@learnsheffield.co.uk.

Please use the buttons below to navigate this section.

Systems & Processes Communication & Interaction Cognition & Learning Social, Emotional & Mental Health Sensory/Physical/Medical

Communication and Interaction

Language and Understanding

Speech, Language and Communication Needs Toolkit

The Speech and Language Therapy team at Sheffield Children’s provides a specialist service to children who have significant and persistent speech, language, and communication needs (SLCN).

The following sections are designed to help parents/carers and professionals supporting the child by:

  • Directing you to information about children’s communication skills
  • Providing help and information that can be used with the support of other health care and education professionals, before making a referral to the specialist speech and language therapy team
  • Knowing when and how to refer to the specialist speech and language therapy team
  • The SCLN Toolkit contains information and resources on:
    • Communication development
    • Universal support
    • Targeted support
    • Screening Tools
    • Communication Support Framework
    • Communication Friendly Environment Tools
    • Training
    • Specialist support and referring to us