Promoting the communicative participation of children with speech, language and communication needs

十分之一的儿童在发出语音、理解或使用语言或遵守社交对话规则方面存在持续的困难。这些孩子通常在学校得到老师、助理和卫生专业人员的额外帮助，如言语和语言治疗师和心理学家。然而，许多孩子的需求没有得到认可，其他孩子没有在正确的时间得到正确的帮助。孩子们、他们的家人和支持他们的专业人士都同意，任何投入的最重要结果是孩子们更容易和独立地交流，并利用他们的沟通技巧参加家庭、学校和社区的活动。但是，儿童的进步通常是通过他们所说的声音和他们使用和理解的语言来衡量的。许多干预措施也侧重于这些狭窄的交流领域。该项目将把有言语和语言困难的儿童、家长、教育和卫生领域的研究人员和从业人员聚集在一起，推动研究，促进儿童成功的日常交流。它旨在帮助识别有困难的儿童，并确保他们在正确的时间得到正确的帮助，这样他们就能够在想要的时候表达自己的想法。新的研究网络将覆盖英国和爱尔兰共和国。为了确保孩子和家长乐于表达他们的观点，在项目开始时将专门为他们设立小组。英国和爱尔兰的家长小组将由有语言障碍儿童的家长领导。儿童小组将由经验丰富的研究人员领导。小组领导将把来自家长和儿童小组的知识、信息和观点反馈给更广泛的研究网络。经验丰富的家长研究人员还将为家长和儿童小组的成员提供支持，帮助感兴趣的成员加入更广泛的网络会议。拥有家长和儿童小组，以及核心研究网络，将使我们能够收集有各种语言，语言和沟通困难的儿童及其家庭的更广泛经验。在第一年，该网络几乎每隔一个月举行一次会议，最后一次实体会议计划于2021年7月举行。会议将集中于：1.；建立一个强大和可持续的网络。定义从幼儿园到中学的孩子成功的日常交流需要什么？创建英国和爱尔兰儿童沟通技巧的工具、干预措施和专门知识的信息资源库。决定研究的重点，以促进儿童在日常沟通方面的发展和评估。了解如何将在教育、卫生和社会保健方面收集的信息联系起来，以评估对联合王国和爱尔兰交流参与的长期影响和影响。计划一个大规模的研究项目，以解决我们对英国和爱尔兰儿童日常交流的了解中最重要的差距。为网络子组确定较小规模的研究项目网络将提供帮助：儿童和他们的家庭通过提供信息来帮助儿童设定目标，与老师和治疗师沟通，并评估干预的成功是有意义和重要的。通过提供资源库和新的评估和干预研究，教育和卫生专业人员。委托提供下列服务的人员：如何根据对言语和语言困难儿童及其家庭重要的方面来衡量他们的进步；哪些干预措施会对沟通产生有意义的影响？学生专业人员（教师，言语和语言治疗师等）通过强调干预措施的长期有意义的结果，并协同工作，以调动研究成果和证据

One child in ten has persistent difficulties producing speech sounds, understanding or using language, or following the social rules of conversation. These children often have extra help at school from teachers and assistants and from health professionals, such as speech and language therapists and psychologists. However, many children's needs go unrecognised and others do not get the right help at the right time. Children, their families and the professionals supporting them agree that the most important result of any input is that children communicate more easily and independently and use their communication skills to take part in activities at home, school and in their communities. But, children's progress is often measured by the sounds they say and the language they use and understand. Many interventions also focus on these narrow areas of communication. This project will bring together children with speech and language difficulties and parents with researchers and practitioners from education and health to drive research to promote children's successful everyday communication. It aims to help identify children with difficulties and make sure they get the right help at the right time so they are able to communicate what they want to, when they want to.The new research network will cover the UK and Republic of Ireland. To make sure that children and parents are happy to express their views, groups will be set up specifically for them at the beginning of the project. Groups for parents in the UK and Ireland will be led by parents of children with speech and language difficulties. Groups for children will be led by experienced researchers. Group leaders will feedback knowledge, information and views from the parent and child groups to the wider research network. Experienced parent researchers will also provide support for members of the parent and child groups to help interested members join meetings of the wider network. Having the parent and child groups, along with the core research network, will allow us to gather the wider experience of children with a diverse range of speech, language and communication difficulties and their families. In the first year the network will meet virtually every other month, with one final physical meeting planned for July 2021. The meetings will focus on: 1. Building a robust and sustainable network 2. Defining what successful daily communication entails for children from preschool to secondary school 3. Creating an information resource bank of the tools and interventions and expertise on children's communication skills in UK and Ireland4. Deciding on priorities for research that can promote the development and evaluation of children's success in daily communication 5. Finding out how to link information collected in education, health and social care to evaluate long term influences on and impacts of communicative participation in UK and Ireland6. Planning a large scale research project to address the most important gap in what we know about children's daily communication in the UK and Ireland7. Identifying smaller-scale research projects for network subgroupsThe network will help: 1. Children and their families by providing information to help set goals for children's communication with teachers and therapists and evaluate the success of intervention that is meaningful and important2. Education and health professionals by providing a resource bank and new research on assessment and interventions 3. People who commission services by providing guidance on: how to measure the progress of children with speech and language difficulties, in terms of what is important to them and their families; which interventions meaningfully impact communication 4. Student professionals (teachers, speech and language therapists etc.) by highlighting long-term meaningful outcomes of interventions, and working collaboratively to mobilise research outputs and evidence