Supporting Children’s Speech, Language and Communication Needs

Susan McCool is a speech and language therapist whose career has combined clinical practice, university education, supervision and mentoring, consulting and advising, research and writing. Susan has extensive experience supporting children who have complex profiles, taking account of relational and contextual considerations. Her teaching and writing focus on communication support in contexts involving neurodevelopmental differences and social, emotional and mental health. She has a special interest in resilience. She is currently a Principal Teaching Fellow at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.

• List of contributorsIntroductionSusan McCoolPart 1: Understanding and supporting children’s speech, language and communication needsChapter 1: Understanding and supporting children’s speech, language and communicationSusan McCoolChapter 2: A ‘whole systems’ approach to meeting speech, language and communication needsMarie GascoigneChapter 3: Inclusive communicationKim Hartley KeanChapter 4: Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)Janice MurrayChapter 5: Communication partnersHayley MorokeChapter 6: So what? And Prove It! Evidencing impactMarie GascoignePart 2: SpeechChapter 7: Speech Sound Disorders (SSDs)Joanne Cleland and Helen StringerChapter 8: VoiceWendy CohenPart 3: LanguageChapter 9: Promoting early language developmentSheena Reilly and Cristina McKeanChapter 10: Developmental Language Disorder (DLD)Courtenay Norbury and Susan EbbelsPart 4: CommunicationChapter 11: Severe and profound learning disabilities (a school-based approach)Rachel Sawford and Ann MilesChapter 12: StammeringBen Bolton-GrantChapter 13: Neurodivergent children: a neuro-affirming lens on autism, ADHD and beyondLynne Bremner and Marion RutherfordChapter 14: Social, emotional and mental health needs: trauma-informed and anxiety-aware care?Susan McCoolPart 5: Selected populations with specialist needsChapter 15: Deaf childrenSarah Beazley and Judy HaldenChapter 16: Cleft lip and palateStephanie van Eeden and Julie DaviesChapter 17: Acquired Brain Injury (ABI)Katherine Buckeridge, Helen Cullimore, Lucy Cuthbertson and Rhiannon HalfpennyChapter 18: Childhood onset eating, drinking and swallowing difficultiesDiane Sellers, Ailish Harrison, Sally Morgan and Mari Viviers

“I’m so glad this book has been written. In a profession where the knowledge and curriculum develop so rapidly, it is quite remarkable to have a reliable source of such contemporary information. The authors provide holistic understanding of everyone supporting a child with SLCN, ultimately resulting in highly informed readers, readily able to enable the best outcomes for children and families. Doing so within evidence and impact-based frameworks ensures strong foundations and secure progression for research, service provision and especially, individuals”. - Shona Corker, Programme Lead, MSc Speech and Language Therapy, York St John University, UK"Supporting Children’s Speech, Language and Communication Needs” is impressively succinct in covering a breadth of complex topics and sharing this detail in a way which is easy to understand and absorb. It will be a very reassuring aid to developing Speech and Language Therapists as well as those who have been in practice for even longer.” - AnneMarie MacRae, Clinical Lead Speech and Language Therapist