Apply for an Elklan course: Supporting Children with Unclear Speech

A practical training course for those of you who would like to learn how to take children through an effective therapy programme to help them speak clearly

Course Dates

Day of Week	Date	Start Time	Finish Time
Monday	17th March 2025	6:00 pm	7:00 pm
Monday	24th March 2025	6:00 pm	7:00 pm
Monday	31st March 2025	6:00 pm	7:00 pm
Monday	7th July 2025	6:00 pm	7:00 pm

Times are shown as in the UK

This course is delivered by way of interactive e-learning materials, completed in the learner's own time, together with live online webinars via Teams at the set times above.

Price

This course is priced at £270.00 plus VAT per person.

About the course

Our highly successful accredited training course, Supporting Children with Unclear Speech, is available through blended web-based learning. Uniquely, this has an interactive component of which we are very proud.

This course is best suited to those working with children over 4 years of age who have delayed speech sound development and who would be able to implement a speech programme with one child.

The course programme involves:

Online modules which are completed through self-study at a time that suits you but should be completed before the live webinar
Live webinars which are an hour long (webinar 2 is one and a half hours) and are pre-arranged at specific times

Whilst it is advisable that applicants have completed a Core Elklan course first, this is not a requirement.

Activity	Content
Webinar 1	An introduction to the course and an opportunity to meet colleagues
Module 1.1	To be completed in your own time before Webinar 2 Different groups of speech sounds and how they are articulated Different kinds of speech disorders General strategies to support a child with unclear speech Specific strategies to support a child aged four years or above with targeted sounds Strategies to encourage the child to use new sounds in everyday situations
Module 1.2	To be completed in your own time before Webinar 2 Typical patterns of speech delay Causes of speech delay Different kinds of speech difficulties General strategies to support children with unclear speech When to refer to SaLT What a SaLT is likely to do during an assessment The possible outcomes of an SaLT assessment
Webinar 2	After module 1.1 and 1.2, to explore the content. Please note this webinar lasts 1.5 hours.
Modules 2.1 – 2.4	To be completed in your own time before Webinar 3 How to implement a typical programme that a therapist is likely to suggest for a child over four who has a simple delay with their speech development 2.1 – Stage 1 of the programme: Listening to speech sounds 2.2 - Stage 2 of the programme: Discriminating between speech sounds in words 2.3 – Stage 3 of the programme: Using speech sounds in words 2.4 – Stage 4 of the programme: using speech sounds in sentences
Webinar 3	After modules 2.1 - 2.4, to explore the content and to prepare to support a child through a speech programme over the following 3 months.
Module 3	This course module and the following webinar is usually completed after implementing a speech programme so there is a gap of 3 months. To be completed in your own time before Webinar 4. This module will help you to: Explore ideas to support children where progress is slower Focus in detail on developing accurate listening skills Consider the impact persisting difficulties with speech processing can have on other aspects of a child’s learning Share ideas and trouble-shooting
Webinar 4	To share the successes of implementing the speech programme with the child you supported, and discuss strategies when expected progress isn’t made.

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Information about accreditation, levels and credits

By applying here, you will not complete a Learning Log or gain accreditation.

If you are able to implement a speech programme with one child and would like to gain accreditation, please click here for more information and to apply.

If you apply using the form on the right of this page but subsequently find you are able to work with a child, you can complete a Learning Log and gain accreditation but due to the extra administration particularly in finding an assessor specifically for you and the marking involved there will be a charge of £100 plus VAT for a late application to complete a learning log. This means you will pay a total of £370 to complete the online sessions and attend the live webinars now and then complete a learning log at a later date rather than £330 when all activities are completed at the same time.

Find out more about Supporting Children with Unclear Speech - e-learning and its content here.

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Supporting Children with Unclear Speech - e-learning

17th March - 7th July 2025

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