Children need lots of skills to become good confident communicators. SLTs can help families support their child with all of these skills.

Please click on the areas in the pyramid to find further information and top tips about how you can help communication development.

SLTs can also offer support about Eating and Drinking, Stammering and – if your child is learning to use more than one language – Bilingual and Multilingual Development.

Barriers to communication such as glue ear, using dummies and television and other screen time can impact on children’s speech, language and communication development.