Telethon Speech & Hearing’s Language Support Program is a structured and systematic program that supports early literacy development.
Talkabout Language Support Group is for Years 1, 2 and 3 students who are having trouble learning to read, spell, write and who demonstrate delayed oral and written language. We follow the Sounds~Write and Talk for Writing programs. Both are evidence-based approaches to literacy instruction and are recommended by Dyslexia SPELD.
Run in very small groups before/after school, our Language Support Groups are a convenient and positive way to build your child’s confidence and skills with literacy, language and school.
Talkabout Language Support Group runs for a block of nine to ten weeks (dependent on the school term). The weekly sessions are for two hours with one hour devoted to reading and spelling development and one hour devoted to oral language and writing development. Across the term, our sessions target:
- Phonological and phonemic awareness skills
- Explicit teaching of the alphabetic code
- Spelling at word and text level
- Reading at word and text level
- Polysyllabic words (reading and spelling longer words)
- Oral language development
- Written language development
- Story structure
A team based approach
Each Language Support Group is led by a Telethon Speech & Hearing teacher or speech pathologist who is Sounds~Write and Talk for Writing trained and certified.
Our teachers liaise with their students’ mainstream teachers to provide a team-based approach to each child’s literacy and language development and can share assessment results and student progress with mainstream teachers.
Talkabout Language Support teachers can also assist with setting Individual Education Plan (IEP) goals, share resources and learning strategies to be implemented in the classroom, and work with mainstream teachers to ensure the home workload between school and Talkabout Language Support Group is manageable and effective.