I think that the content of the course was very useful. I can't think of any training that I have completed that will have as much impact as this training will. I now feel so much more skilled in supporting and building children's language. I feel much more confident when talking to colleagues, parents and other specialists. The course really has raised my confidence.

I have learnt so much about how to support children's speech, communication and language in a range of ways. The Language Builders book is so useful and will be referred to continuously as I continue to make further adaptations to my practice.

I have really enjoyed the course and it has given me so many new strategies that are so easy to be implemented into my practice to support the communication of our children. I look forward to completing the Level 4 (Communication Friendly Settings) and sharing these with my staff more and seeing us all using the strategies and see it have a great impact on our children.

I have enjoyed this course and will use all of the areas learned now and in the future. I can see how the assessment tools and the methods of support can come together like a jigsaw puzzle, making a bigger picture of skills to develop a stronger and more efficient level of communication and speech.

It’s been brilliant from start to finish, the only thing I would say is the webinars should be a little longer, even just by half an hour.

A really informative and enjoyable course, thank you. The ability to discuss with colleagues and share ideas has been really beneficial. The break down of the course allows knowledge and learning to build and you come away with a great overview of language development in young children and lots of new strategies to try in your setting. The learning log is a great way to reflect on changes made to practice and impact on the children

After over 20 years of teaching experience I kept asking myself why I hadn't completed this course beforehand. I feel that the knowledge and strategies developed throughout this training will help me to engage and support my learners even further. I would highly recommend the course to all practitioners who work with young children.

I found this course to be highly informative, offering a wealth of clearly explained strategies that can be integrated into daily classroom practices to support and enhance children's language and communication .After each session, I was able to apply the knowledge I gained to support the children in my class, leading to positive outcomes. I now feel more confident in sharing this knowledge with colleagues and have engaged in numerous professional discussions about identifying and supporting children with language and communication needs. Additionally, I have shared the information and strategies from this course during a whole-school staff meeting and plan to lead CPD sessions to further pass on these strategies across the school.

The course has been amazing and has really opened my eyes to taking my teaching right back to basics and ensuring that all children within my class are fully capable of understanding and communicating their thoughts and ideas. It has provided me with a wealth of activities and assessments to help identify my children's needs and support them as much as I possibly can. These skills have been amazing and really opened my eyes. After ten years in teaching I feel I have really learnt something new and I am enthusiastic to try some of the activities and ideas and push my children on further and help them in any way I can.

This course has been brilliant and I feel like I have gained so much information that I can use in my everyday practice.

I have thoroughly enjoyed this course and believe it to be really beneficial for all early years professionals. I have took lots of information, knowledge and strategies away with me and will be sharing this with my colleagues.

I just thoroughly enjoyed course. It was so informative and helpful. Yes it was quite a lot of work, but was totally justified when you reach the end and leave armed with such fantastic knowledge, tips and strategies, which I am positive are going to help the children in my class everyday. In addition to this the staff in my class and parents of the children too. My tutor was so kind, approachable, calm and helpful, which I appreciated very much. My Language Builders book will be a permanent fixture in my class.

This is one of the most useful courses I have attended in my many years of teaching. I thank you ever so much for making me reflect on and adapt my practice to help my pupils communicate. Due to my pupils having additional learning needs and additional diagnosis some of the strategies will be adapted slightly and may take a slightly longer time to see progress, but undoubtedly this was a very worth while course and I thank you greatly for all your knowledge and support shared with me.

The tutor was so knowledgeable and supportive. Being trained by a speech therapist has opened my eyes and really helped me to understand therapists that speak to me at school and also gave me the confidence to speak to parents about communication issues with a little more clarity and knowledge.

I found this course to be highly informative, offering a wealth of clearly explained strategies that can be integrated into daily classroom practices to support and enhance children's language and communication .After each session, I was able to apply the knowledge I gained to support the children in my class, leading to positive outcomes. I now feel more confident in sharing this knowledge with colleagues and have engaged in numerous professional discussions about identifying and supporting children with language and communication needs. Additionally, I have shared the information and strategies from this course during a whole-school staff meeting and plan to lead CPD sessions to further pass on these strategies across the school.

I feel this course has been an eye opener for our setting and shown us what we need to support these children especially as there us currently a 2 year wait for the children in our setting to see a speech therapist meaning they wont get any extra support until they start school.

This course has been fantastic and I would highly recommend it. I have thoroughly enjoyed it and I will be looking at doing the 5-11s course in the future!

I thoroughly enjoyed the course and I will be and have already recommended the course to other professionals. I would love to do the 0-3 years course to support the younger children in my setting too and I will be looking into that in the near future. Our tutor was fantastic throughout and gave a high level of support to all of us. The course was well structured with lots of ways to receive the information clearly and simply so we could apply the knowledge into our practice straight away. I will miss our Monday evenings together and I wish the best of luck to everyone on the course.

Elklan has completely changed the way i approach most of my practice, I have a completely different view of working with children especially children that are EAL. I use the communication chain in nearly everything i do.

I really enjoyed the course and feel it has been extremely beneficial for developing the language of 3-5 year olds in my setting.

This course has been such a lovely experience and has expanded my knowledge greatly, I look forward to putting it all into my practice and seeing the changes it makes.

This has honestly been the best training I have ever completed! I have completed many training courses including SENCO and portage training but this has had the biggest impact on my practise. Being able to pass on knowledge to other practitioners and parents has also been so useful and has shown great results. Our tutor has been amazing, guiding us through each week and answering any queries. I would throughly recommend this course to every person working with 3 to 5 year olds as it really is so effective in providing help to children at a time when NHS speech and language wait times can be so long. This gives practitioners the knowledge to help decide if a referral is even needed or provide practical support and guidance to the children and their parents while waiting for professionals. It is also a course that applies to every child in some way which is just invaluable!

Incredibly useful course for Early Years practitioners which really gives you the insight into the development of speech and communication, understanding how to support children and ways to incorporate amendments to practice that makes a big difference.

It has been a really useful course. I have gained much more awareness of how I can support SLCN children in my setting and become more of a communication friendly setting. I have already started applying things I have learnt into my every day activities with the children an I have my list ready for what we can do even better next year!

This course really opened my eyes to speech and language for children and how as a practitioner I can have methods in place to support those that find language and speech more challenging. There are many things from this course that I want to share with my team and implement in the setting over time.

The course is very informative and has lots of great tools to help build a better communication friendly settling. It's nice to hear from other settings during the trainings to gather ideas to support children and what works well/not so well in their settings.

This has been a really worthwhile course for me to help my Nursery class with their communication, I would recommend it to other EYFS staff, thank you!

After completing the 10 week course with Elkan, I have a new found confidence in how to provide the appropriate support for the children in the setting to promote speech, language and communication. I have enjoyed the course and would definitely recommend it to other childcare providers. Thank you.

Completing this course has enabled me to analyse and consider how I support all children in their communication and language development in my setting. It has given me lots of ideas of ways to support children to enable them good progression with their language skills. It has also given me ideas of ways we can assess children and then ensure we are providing opportunities for the children to develop in those areas they are lacking. As a result of completing this course I am ensuring that we have better communication with our families to ensure that the children are being supported at home as well as at school to encourage good communication and language. The videos used could do with being updated as they are very dated and often it is hard to hear the child.

Wow, what an incredible course delivered so well by the tutor! She kept me engaged the whole time! Thank you so much!!

I have really enjoyed completing this course and have learnt lots of new strategies to help support children with communication difficulties

I feel so much more confident in the support I give the children, I give them plenty of time to respond and I am definitely more conscious of the activities I provided and how communication friendly the environment is

This course has changed the way I am as a Practitioner and I am able to use the skills learned on this course to my everyday work and understanding.

Absolutely love this course and would love to engage on others in the future ! Delivery of the course was fantastic, Hazel clearly has a strong knowledge and is very supportive.

The course has been very useful and informative. I would highly recommend it to others.

I really enjoyed every webinar sessions and all the resources were well provided and useful. The course content was easy to understand and the tutor has been very helpful, supportive and delivered the webinars very well.

Completing this course has enabled me to analyse and consider how I support all children in their communication and language development in my setting. It has given me lots of ideas of ways to support children to enable them good progression with their language skills. It has also given me ideas of ways we can assess children and then ensure we are providing opportunities for the children to develop in those areas they are lacking. As a result of completing this course I am ensuring that we have better communication with our families to ensure that the children are being supported at home as well as at school to encourage good communication and language.

We have trained many settings now across Hampshire and have seen fantastic outcomes. Practitioners always say how interesting the course is and how much their knowledge has grown since attending. They have been able to share their knowledge with their teams and the families they work with which in turn has had a huge impact on children's communication development! ELKLAN is a fantastic course which really helps to increase children's outcomes.

Having worked in childcare for around 30 years i feel that i may have become complacent with my practice and felt that i knew everything about children and child development. This course has re-opened my eyes and made me re-think about my practice and the children that i support at nursery. I have questioned myself so many times since starting this course, 'when im speaking to children, do i give them time?' 'do i use too many words, are my sentences too complex?' 'do i use enough vocabulary?' 'understanding what it actually takes for a child to process what is being said to them and the processes it takes for them to respond'. I have taken a big step back and started to put this new found knowledge into practice, and have been relaying the knowledge to my staff team, enabling a whole staff approach. I have been questioning other staff members and asking them to think about how and why children are responding, what barriers do we have to remove or change to help children with communication as a whole. Exciting times!

Such a great course with helpful and relevant information. My tutor was brilliant with leading conversation and was very supportive and encouraging throughout. I will miss our weekly meetings! I really enjoyed the course and got so much from it!

This course has been absolutely amazing. The content, the rescource materials the e-learning sessions have all been to an exceptional standard. The knowledge of my tutor is unparalleled and it has been a pleasure to have her teach me. She is so passionate about what she does and has so much empathy for her students working under difficult circumstances. I could listen to her speak for hours!

I have learnt so many strategies and understand so much more about the needs of children than I ever did before. More importantly, I have been given the tools to assess and checklists to carry out much needed evaluations to enable me to chart the progress of my own learning and that of the children I support. Thank you very much

I have really enjoyed taking part in this course and have found it very informative. I am confident that I will now have the knowledge and strategies to help promote children's communication skills within my setting. I am looking forward to sharing the information with my fellow practitioners.

This course has been absolutely amazing. The content, the rescource materials the e-learning sessions have all been to an exceptional standard. The knowledge of my tutor is unparalleled and it has been a pleasure to have her teach me. She is so passionate about what she does and has so much empathy for her students working under difficult circumstances. I could listen to her speak for hours!

I have learnt so many strategies and understand so much more about the needs of children than I ever did before. More importantly, I have been given the tools to assess and checklists to carry out much needed evaluations to enable me to chart the progress of my own learning and that of the children I support. Thank you very much! Louise

Such a great course with helpful and relevant information. Beth was brilliant with leading conversation and was very supportive and encouraging throughout. I will miss our weekly meetings!

Wonderful, thorough course. Explanations were simple to understand and effective in practice. Liz was a great facilitator who allowed for seamless sharing of ideas and opinions. I would highly recommend this course to those in the early years setting

I have spent some time exploring the e-learning modules for the 3-5s course. I love the feel of the learning and that it is genuinely interactive, reflective and high quality. I have done e-learning before but it really was glorified PowerPoints only. These modules inspired me to keep reading and looking (even though I have delivered the content of the course for years).

It was great for me to compare the delivery and style of course. It worked well and I thought the e-learning sessions were very good and clear. I liked the fact that it was interactive and challenged the delegates to think. As a tutor it was easy to follow and run the course.

This course is excellent! I have a first class degree in the study of language but I have learnt so much during the 10 weeks. I think this training should be part of every early years practitioner's training.

Everything that I learned on the course has helped me in my day to day practice as well as helping my colleagues.

The Elklan course was very good and so valuable for the nursery staff.

I found it covered all day to day difficulties in children's language. This has now given me a better understanding.

I think, of all the courses I've done in Early Years, this is the most useful. A SLT came this week, to see a child at the nursery and started to explain ICW's as one of the targets. I just had to say, "It's OK, I've done my Elklan," and she knew she would be understood!

I think of all the courses I've done in Early Years, this is the most useful. A SLT came this week to see a child at the nursery and started to explain ICWs as one of the targets. I just had to say "It's OK, I've done my Elklan," and she knew she would be understood!