New online toolkit helps Australian teachers support students with communication disabilities
Australian teachers have welcomed the launch of the country’s first online resource designed to support…
Browsing: Speech, Language & Communications Needs
Research aims to help children with communication disorders gain a voice through apps
Researchers at the University of Central Florida and the University of New Mexico have been…
Stoke Speaks Out
Stoke Speaks Out’s Early Communication Screen won the Outstanding Achievement Award at this year’s Shine…
Review highlights continuing failures a decade after Bercow Report
Thousands of children and young people with speech, language and communication needs (SCLN) are being…
See Dyslexia Differently
The British Dyslexia Association (BDA) —the largest UK charity in the field of dyslexia —…
SLCN funding decision puts 1.4 million children and young people at risk, warn critics
The UK government’s decision to end a specialist contract for Speech Language and Communication Needs…
Speech, language and communication services suffer funding setback
The Communication Trust (TCT) is drawing up plans to significantly scale back its work after…
Texthelp’s Browsealoud falls victim to hackers
Thousands of websites that use Texthelp’s Browsealoud software to add speech, reading, and translation to…
Google announce step change in generating human-like text-to-speech
Google software engineers have announced Tacotron 2, a new version of the company’s text-to-speech (TTS)…
Independent evaluation confirms benefits of Talking Matters for early years language development
An independent evaluation of Elklan’s Talking Matters programme, undertaken by the Department of Human Communication…