Join this free online session to hear about the ‘DLD Together’ training courses being run by Afasic and NAPLIC. These courses bring small groups of parents together via Zoom to meet each other, learn about how Developmental Language Disorder impacts on their child, and how to support them. This event will be held using Zoom…
Are you an Education professional or an SLT student looking for fun and meaningful volunteering opportunities? Join Afasic’s Summer Transition Courses to work with children with SLCN, gain experience and make a difference! For more info contact our Schools Coordinator.
We are encouraging our supporters to take part in the Captain Tom 100 Challenge. To celebrate Captain Tom Moore’s amazing achievements and mark what would have been his 101st birthday, everyone’s invited to take part in a fundraising challenge between Friday 30th April and Monday 3rd May. Basically, you can do anything involving the number…
We need your help to ensure that our ‘Secondary Starter’ transition courses this summer for children with persistent communication problems facing the key educational move to secondary school can take place. At a time when there is more need than ever for these courses, we are struggling to get the funding to organise the number…
Guaranteed ‘Virtual’ London Marathon Places Available! Afasic has a few guaranteed places available for the ‘Virtual’ London Marathon on Sunday 3rd October. This takes place on the same day as the main event and basically you can run it anywhere you want, at any time during that day. You get a running number to wear…
The SWAN team at University College London (UCL) has developed a new tablet-based game that aims to help build number skills in children with Developmental Language Disorders. The project is looking for children with DLD to play this highly motivating game. They are keen to recruit parents and children who are between 5 and 7…
We are pleased to provide an update on the Engage with Developmental Language Disorder project and details of some recent research findings. For more information please click on the link below.
Please contribute to the survey launched recently by the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists. They want to find out how the pandemic has affected your access to speech and language therapy. The survey is available here: https://www.rcslt.org/learning/has-coronavirus-affected-your-access-to-speech-and-language-therapy There are actually two questionnaires so make sure you choose the right one! Most Afasic parents…