Speech Bubble

St Luke's and St Phillip's has funded a company called The Speech Bubble to work within our school setting to support the speech, language and communication needs of our learners. 

Our in house speech therapist is called Amema Rahman. She is an asset to our school and is able to assess speech and language needs, write reports, support staff to support children, provide training, and support teachers to accommodate the many diverse needs of our children in school. Alongside identifying need and giving advice and adaptive teaching strategies to our pupils, Amema and the Speech Bubble also organise many different interventions to support SALT progress throughout school. 

A list of programs that we currently run are: 

Speech sounds- the supporting of pronunciation of sounds. 

Pre teach vocabulary- the teaching of specific words that will be needed before a lesson to expand the vocabulary of learners. 

Phonemic agents- supporting children's understanding of phonological awareness- how they hear and process sounds. 

Narrative- expanding children's ability to tell a detailed sentence,  story or sequence in the correct order using 'First', 'Then', 'Next', 'After'. 

Word agents- being taught strategies to help with compartmentalising words into the correct categories ensuring that children how to store and recall words at the correct time in the correct place. 

Abstract agents- to develop children's abstract thinking skills so that they can develop their ability to explain, interpret, predict and justify scenarios, events and their understanding of concepts. 

Social detectives- Developing the awareness of what social skills are appropriate in situations and transfer those skills into the school and home environment. 

Recall agents- Develop strategies to support memory difficulties so that they have tools to use in order to remember conversation, new knowledge and language as a whole.