News - Communication Interaction Team

Mind your words

RCSLT is delighted to announce the launch of Mind Your Words, a new free online course to support all those working with children and young people with mental health needs.

The aim of this course is to improve understanding of children and young people who have both mental health needs (or social emotional and mental health needs, or SEMH) and speech, language, and communication needs (SLCN). This is made all the more important during the COVID-19 pandemic, as research suggests it has had an effect on everyone's mental health, including children.

This online training highlights the links between mental health and communication and outlines how professionals can work together to remove communication barriers and help these children and young people achieve their potential. The course consists of 15 modules, of which the first five apply to all settings.

The five core modules explain what speech, language, and communication needs are, what social, emotional, and mental health needs are, and how to recognise them. They also explain how they are interrelated and what strategies you can put in place. The remaining modules look in more detail at ways you can support children and young people, including getting support from speech and language therapy, working collaboratively, modifying risk assessment and de-escalation techniques, becoming a communication-accessible service, and much more.

To access this free resource, please visit the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists website.

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