Children aged seven to eleven

Children aged seven to eleven

On this page are strategies devised by speech and language therapists for you to try to help your child aged seven to eleven years to develop their communication skills. They focus on supporting your child’s understanding, talking and social interaction.

Use the arrow on the right to scroll through the short videos. Then try the ideas shown whilst you go about your everyday routines and while you play with your child. It will be helpful to watch the videos and then choose one or two strategies to try at a time with your child.

Help with understanding

The videos below help you to support your child to develop their understanding of language.

Help with talking

The videos below will support you in helping your child to develop their talking as you go about your everyday activities and play together.

If you have any worries about your child’s understanding or concerns about your child talking, it can be useful to think about their understanding of language and social interaction first.

Help with social interaction

All brains are different. This means that people are ‘neurodiverse’. Some people are neurotypical and some people are neurodivergent. Neurodivergent children and young people will have differences in the way they sense and experience the world and communicate and interact with others. This video explains these differences and what we can do to understand and support them.

If your child is autistic or is under-going/awaiting an autism diagnosis the websites below provide support, resources, and advice.