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- Outdated myths about stammering that parents might hear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
Feedback

Stammering need not hold you back

The BSA knows of adults in all these different types of jobs, some of which call for a lot of training and considerable talking in the job. This should reassure parents.

Acting in film, television and theatre
Air traffic Control
Armed Forces
Call Centres
Careers Guidance
Catering
Church Ministry
Civil Service
Company Director
Customer Service
Engineering
Fundraiser
Hair and Beauty Therapy
Hotels
IT
Laboratories
Law
Leisure
Libraries
Marketing
Medicine
Music
Nursing
Nursery Nursing
Police Officer
Politics; Member of House of Lords/Member of Parliament
Printing
Public relations
Reception
Recruitment
Retail
Speech and Language Therapy
Statistical Analysis
Stores Management
Teaching
Technical Work
University research/Lecturing/Professorships in both Arts and Science

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