“Speech, language and communication are crucial to all children ... if a child does not benefit from early intervention, there are multiple risks which may become evident over a period of years – of lower educational attainment, of behavioural problems, of emotional and psychological difficulties, of poorer employment prospects, of challenges to mental health and, in some cases, of a descent into criminality.”
The Bercow Report: A review of services for children and young people with speech, language and communication needs (DCSF, 2008).
The links between underdeveloped speech, language and communication needs (SLCN) and negative life outcomes are well-documented and indeed provided the impetus for the governmental review of services for children and young people with SLCN that led to the Bercow Report.
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