Liverpool Children and Young People’s Services provide additional resourced facilities at several schools to meet the needs of pupils with severe and specific speech, language and communication needs. The emphasis of the provision for primary pupils is to ensure early identification and intervention. This is achieved through a system of joint clinics involving a range of professionals. Children requiring intensive intervention are identified early and allocated appropriate provision within the range of schools available.

 The resourced provision offers specially trained and qualified teachers and regular access to Speech and Language Therapists. Each child has an individually tailored programme of support and curriculum work with speech and language targets that are differentiated and modified to match the pupil’s needs. The pupils are encouraged to be part of the mainstream school community and the aim of the early intervention is to enable pupils to successfully integrate into their local mainstream schools.

 For those pupils with longer term communication needs, a secondary resource base is also available. Places are allocated by multi-agency review in Years 5 and 6, following close liaison and discussion with parents and carers.