Talk Boost

Talk Boost KS1 is a targeted intervention for 4-7 year old children with language that is delayed, including children in Reception classes. The programme is delivered in primary schools by classroom teachers and teaching assistants and provides a structured programme that boosts children’s progress in language and communication by an average of 9 – 18 months after a ten week intervention.

Children who are selected to take part in the intervention will attend three sessions per week in small groups, each lasting 30-40 minutes delivered by the teaching assistant. The sessions include activities that cover the key elements of language: Attention and Listening, Vocabulary, Building Sentences, Telling Stories and Conversations. In addition, the teacher will run a weekly whole-class activity and there are activities that can be practiced at home.

Talk Boost:

• Supports children who are not achieving their expected levels of progress in their language development
• Can be used to demonstrate to Ofsted how you are focussing on developing staff skills
• Help to build relationships with parents, by reinforcing the language skills the child learned during the group sessions
• Demonstrates the effective use of your Pupil Premium allocation
• An all-in-one speech and language solution package
• Can be used by non speech and language specialists
• Proven to improve children’s language and communication through our evidence base
• Designed to be sustainable so you can deliver the intervention multiple times to new groups of children
• A dedicated team at I CAN to support you to maximise the impact of Early Talk Boost in your setting
• Identify, monitor and track children’s progress before and following the intervention with the online tracker