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Developmental verbal dyspraxia (DVD), also known as childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) is a motor speech disorder and it is a subgroup of the diagnostic category called, speech sound disorder.

The summer holidays beckon, but it’s already a good time to start thinking about how schools can support children with coming back to school and settling into a new routine. Sophie shares ideas on what we should consider now in order to get the next school year off to a good start.

In the coming days school staff will be facing possibly the biggest challenge of their careers – ever. Soundswell give their top tips on how to overcome this.

With so much ongoing change and uncertainty in schools across the country, transition planning might feel daunting. Sophie shares her advice on how to work with what information and tools we do have to prepare children for the next academic year, whatever it might look like.

Senior speech and language therapy technical instructor and founder of Chatterpack (a voluntary-run, special education needs and disabilities hub) Claire Ryan talks about her own diagnosis of ADHD and how to help support children and young people who have ADHD.