This course has been of huge benefit, I wish I had done it years ago and our course tutor was amazing, approachable and full of good experience. It should be part of every teacher training course!

Amazing course I have learnt not just strategies but the knowledge behind why some children have Speech & Language issues.

Great course and recommend for schools to get on board.

It's been a brilliant and informative course that has helped to better understand information that speech and language therapists have provided and it has enabled me to better support the child I work closely with and shared this with other colleagues throughout the school that may have similar issues with other children.

I have learnt the importance of the overall communication chain of both receptive and expressive language and how to use a variety of strategies to help support all children including those with SLCN

I now have a valuable toolkit to assess and better understand a child's speech, language and communication needs and a vast range of strategies to support their development. I have adapted practice in a number of ways already, including reducing the number of questions I ask, using the 10 second rule to allow children time to process the information and respond and am more conscious of the ICWs I use in a sentence or a question.

It has been a really helpful course and has already made a huge impact to my daily practice and it has only been 10 weeks!

This will change the way we look at speech, language and communication in our school. It has been invaluable - thank you.

Thank you for such a great course, I continue to grow from strength to strength as well as the pupils. And I must also add my tutor Joanne was phenomenal and patient.

Thank you once again

Week after week I found I was applying each new skill to my practice, making me better at my role and supporting each child with more knowledge and strategies. I particularly liked the ten second rule and I am absolutely amazed at the difference with the response from the children. I have come away with trying not to over scaffold each child or group of children that I work with but will allow some sessions to be more child- led. It is a wonderful feeling coming away from a session, knowing that the child has not only enjoyed their session but has left with a feeling of success. Since learning the barrier game, I have now combined this in many of my auditory and instructional games and just watching the growth and engagement over the previous sessions has been phenomenal. Another great resource I have implemented into my sessions, is one sound at a time, this I have also found to be beneficial allowing the child to become familiar and confident with the sound. Learning at a pace to suit which allows the sound to become embedded with no pressure.

I have used new strategies to support children who have previously struggled to engage in learning. These strategies have empowered individual children to feel more confident and have a better relationship with learning.

I have benefited from this course by building my skill base and confidence in working with those children who struggle with communication and has made me interested in completing further courses to increase my skills further and I would like to thank all involved for this.

This is by far the best course I have ever attended. Each session was delivered in such a clear and concise way that it was really easy to follow. It has made me feel empowered to deliver language support in school and has provided me with a great skill set moving forward. I can't speak any more highly about this course. I wish every member of staff could do it.

I believe I have covered so much ground in this 10 week course and it has been an invaluable learning process which has given lots of practical strategies which I was able to test and employ to help pupils and make the new understanding and knowledge an intrinsic part of my practice.

I loved every element of this course, it has honestly been so useful and I'm so happy that I can improve my practice and help my children because of it.

Fantastic Course! It has helped me adjust my teaching with my SEN group. Amazing ideas to assist the children

This has been a very interesting course and I would highly recommend for Teachers and SENCOs as well as for TAs.

This was an amazing course, it is a shame that every adult working in education does not study it. My tutor, Gill Clarke, was incredible. She explains everything so well and was so knowledgeable and supportive.

I have absolutely loved my course, thank you. I have thoroughly enjoyed the content and I found the e-learning great. The resources were wonderful. My tutor has been really super - supportive and always easy to contact. I even had an IT issue and they were great too! thank you

I found the Elklan course really useful and from the training I am going on to the role of speech and language support for the whole school. Due to covid all the training was online, but I found the webinar meetings that were held every week really helpful. It was nice to talk to other practitioners and hear about their experiences. I would definitely recommend this course to everyone.

Having only recently begun my career in early years education, I have found the information and strategies taught by Elklan invaluable. The course, and materials are well thought through and provide the practitioner with tried and tested strategies that undoubtedly help identify and support children who benefit from interventions. The course has helped to develop me as an effective TA, and am confident in the continued support from Elklan and its tutors.

I just wanted to say how much the Elklan course has helped me in my everyday work. I have taken so many amazing skills away from it and have recommended the course to so many people!

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.

Thanks so much - this has been a really enjoyable learning experience. Not always easy on teams so well done for delivering such an engaging course. We are looking forward to rolling out some of the strategies to our whole school team.

Would totally recommend this course. There was so much information included.

I found it really interesting and useful. I have gained a lot of knowledge which I will be using everyday.

As the SENCo at a large primary school I work with many speech and language therapists, as well as the staff who deliver the programmes they write. The 5-11s course has provided me with a thorough and comprehensive overview of speech and language needs and strategies.

I found the course structure logical and accessible. I also liked the fact that many of the strategies discussed could be used as whole class or group teaching approaches, not just as 1:1 intervention – particularly the strategies around vocabulary and expressive language development.

The Language Builders manual is a great resource, providing clear information and worked examples. An excellent professional development opportunity.

Fantastic course, I have been recommending it to everyone. The Tutor has been fantastic too, always so helpful. Thank you.

My first e-course and I think the interactive slides etc are brilliant. My learners are all very enthusiastic so I think it will be a positive experience for us all.

Before I took this Elklan course, I thought I understood a decent amount of knowledge about speech. I was wrong! Now I have had a lot more understanding of some of the struggles the children I work with face everyday.

I returned to work after my morning session on the course and listened to the children in my class. Most can complete tasks without assistance, but some have needed lots of help. I have adapted the way I talk to the children, using shorter and clearer sentences to avoid confusion on their behalf.

I have used old methods of helping children such as timelines with much more success this time. Mind Maps and Word Snapshot were a favourite to use and I enjoyed it as much as they did!

I hope to use this new knowledge to help me be a better teaching assistant and to help others understand just how difficult ‘talking’ can be.

The course was probably one of the best decisions I've made in my 6 years as a Learning Support Assistant and I am hoping to do another Elklan course over the next academic year.

I have a son with speech problems so I thought I knew a fair bit about speech and language but this course has shown me how little I actually knew! After completing the course I am now able to look at both my own child and the children I work with from a completely different point of view. I know that what I've learnt on the course will change the way I do my job in the future.

The ability to stretch the course out over 10 weeks was really beneficial as it allowed me time to study each subject and to try and put into practice the skills I was developing. The online e-learning element was crucial to my learning process as it allowed me to choose when I studied throughout the week and to replay elements that I was unsure of. My tutor was always available if I had any questions and was very quick to respond (even over weekends and bank holidays!). Although it was sometimes hard work to balance studying with work and home life, it was well worth the effort and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend the course to my colleagues - in fact, I already have!

I would just like to say what a comprehensive course this has been - when you think of e-learning it can be a little daunting but each session has been presented in a way which is easy to access and very thorough. The joy of 'looking' at each session was the fact that you could stop at any time, restart and review anything, it was easy to follow. The Wednesday evening webinar sessions with Jo were also very well presented. She is a very good tutor and made all of us feel very comfortable. It was good talking to the others about their practises and settings in relation to what the topic was each week. The portfolio was also easy to follow and very well thought through and Jo was very quick at getting back to me if I had any queries.

Once again well done for such an excellent course, I will definitely recommend it to others and will look at further courses in the future.