How can I ensure my child receives the support they need in nursery?

Every nursery or early years' setting will employ someone responsible for special educational needs and your child is likely to have a keyworker who is regularly monitoring your child’s progress. You can approach the setting’s manager if you are unsure. 

Part of this person's role is to coordinate the support for your child’s learning and overall development, including speech, language and communication needs, social-emotional well-being and mental health. You can talk to them about any concerns you might have regarding your child’s stammer or speech development.

You can talk to the early years practitioner about keeping a record of how a stammer presents at nursery, how it is affecting them and let you know anything they have noticed that is helping.

Early education staff can also work with your child’s Speech and Language Therapist for staff awareness training, to discuss the best strategies to use in school and monitor how the strategies are helping.

If you are concerned about your child's speech, language and communcation developmnt, you can access professional support from speech and language therapy. If you need help finding out about your local service or making a referral, then you may find the links below helpful:

• Making a referral to speech & language therapy
• How do we access speech & language therapy?
• What is Speech and Language Therapy?