BSA Primary Education Resource

Does your primary school child stammer?
- Words in this resource
- Is my child stammering?
- What causes stammering?
- What parents need to know about their child who stammers
- Outdated myths about stammering that parents might hear
- Summary
When your child continues to stammer
- Identifying a child who stammers at primary school
- How can speech therapy help my child
- Stammering need not hold you back
- Summary
Help in the home for your child who stammers
- Learn about stammering
- Understand what factors will affect your child's fluency?
- What can parents do to help?
- Simple tips to help your child
- How the family can help
- Helping your child to help himself
- How to prepare your child for speaking and listening activities in school
- Summary
How to help your child's learning
- Why parents should build up their child's language skills
- Building up vocabulary for the younger child
- Language development for the older child
- Interacting with your child
- Helping your child with reading and other media
- Summary
Speech and Language Therapy
- Finding a therapist
- Before your appointment with the speech and language therapist
- What happens when you meet the speech and language therapist
- What therapy involves
- Therapists working in partnership with the school
- Summary
Options in primary education
- Choosing primary education
- Further information
- State-maintained schools
- Independent schools
- Home Schooling
- Summary
Choosing a primary school
- When can your child start at a state-maintained primary school?
- Can summer-born children start the Reception Year later
- When can your child start at an independent school?
- When can your child start home education?
- Step 1: How do I decide between schools?
- Step 2: Judging for yourself
- Step 3: Collect information about possible school choices
- Step 4: Visit the schools you are considering and get the whole picture
- Step 5: Application
- Summary
What primary school staff need to know to help your child
- Your child's personal passport
- Preparing your child for primary school
- Summary
What is taught in a primary school
- The National Curriculum
- The importance of 'Speaking and Listening'
- Speaking: What do children have to do?
- Listening: What do children have to do?
- Group Work: What do children have to do?
- Literacy
- Assessment
- Summary
How to get support for learning for your primary school child who stammers
- What to do if you think that your child has a stammer
- The Special Educational Needs Code of Practice (SEN Code)
- Gifted and talented children who stammer
- How the SEN Code can help parents
- Getting support for your child through the SEN Code
- What happens when the SEN Code supports your child?
- Reviewing the Individual Education Plan (IEP)
- How the Equality Act can help your child who stammers
- Further action: Assessment and Statementing
- Summary
Teasing and bullying
- What to do about teasing and bullying
- Strategies to help your child
- Preventing your child being upset by others
- What you need to know
- When you are still concerned
- Summary
When you have to make a formal complaint
- Stage 1: Talk over your concern with the class teacher
- Stage 2: Putting concerns or complaints in writing
- Stage 3: What to do next
- Stage 4: External mediation
- Stage 5: Conclusion
- Summary
Options in secondary education
- Choosing secondary education
- Further information
- State-maintained schools
- Independent schools
- Home schooling
- Summary
Choosing a secondary school
- Starting secondary school
- Step 1: How do I decide between schools?
- Step 2: Judging for yourself
- Step 3: Collect information about possible school choices
- Step 4: Visit the schools you are considering and get the whole picture
- Step 5: Application
- Summary
When your child has complex needs
- Assessment and statementing
- Get more advice on the options available
- Statementing
- The assessment process
- After the assessment
- Statements - setting out your child's needs
- Annual review and meeting
- Speech and language therapy for stammering for children with a statement
- Summary
The BSA
Contact
Acknowledgements
Disclaimer
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The British Stammering Association
15 Old Ford Road
London E2 9PJ

Tel: 020 8983 1003
Fax: 020 8983 3591
Email: info@stammering.org
Website: www.stammering.org
How to get to us: Maps on the main BSA website.

Information and support service

See our information and support service web page on the main BSA website. This includes details of how to get a free information pack.

School-related queries

Cherry Hughes, Education Officer
Tel: 01606 77374
Email: ch@stammering.org

Media enquiries

See our media page on the main BSA website.

BSA Scotland

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