What is the WellComm Early Years Screening Toolkit? 

The WellComm Early Years Screening Toolkit enables you to quickly and easily identify children aged 6 months to 6 years who may benefit from speech and language support.

This course is an introduction to using the Screening Toolkit and prepares participants to be able to select individualised activities from the Big Book of Ideas.  As the Toolkit can be completed in around 20 minutes, this will allow participants to identify and address speech, language and communication needs early. 

The WellComm Early Years Screening Toolkit enables quick and easy identification of children needing speech and language support, making a crucial difference to confidence and attainment.  

• Quick and simple to use
• Requires no Speech and Language Therapist (SLT) expertise
• Can be used as many times as required 
• Instant reports are quick to digest, using an easy to understand traffic-light scoring format
• The full Toolkit Includes a “Big Book of Ideas” of 150 play-based activities so action can be taken straight away
• Activities can be used at home so effective support is provided whether referred to an SLT or not
• Supportive videos are available online showing you how to use the Toolkit, including examples of the reports 

Following this training, you may then wish to receive the WellComm Early Years – Big Book of Ideas training course which Communicate SLT can also provide. This training details play-based activities to support children’s speech, language and communication development. 

This online training package consists of 1 x 2 hour session delivered via Zoom. You will receive a welcome email from your trainer with joining instructions closer to the date of the training. 

In order to complete the training it is expected that each individual participant attends the full 2 hour session; you must already have resources in setting to participate in this training.  The WellComm Early Years complete set can be purchased for £470 from GL Assessment. You can purchase the Resource Pack directly from GL Assessment at: https://www.gl-assessment.co.uk/products/wellcomm/   

A reminder that we require a minimum of 3 participants to book onto this session in order for the training course to go ahead (hence the request for expressions of interest for now) and we will deliver this session to a maximum of 20 participants.   

Places on this session are available at the following rates:

• Free of Charge: Blackpool Health Visitors, Blackpool Community Health Practitioners, Blackpool Early Years Practitioners
• Subsidised at a rate of £15.00 per ticket inc. VAT: Other professionals working with children and young people in Blackpool
• Chargeable at a rate of £50.00 per ticket inc. VAT: All others interested in attending this course

If you are unsure as to what rate you may be asked to pay, please contact accounts@communicate-slt.org.uk or add your question to your Expression of Interest form and we’ll confirm this for you.

Please express your interest in this session by:

• adding one quantity ticket,
• completing the Expression of Interest Attendee Info form,
• reading, understanding and accepting the Terms and Conditions, then
• clicking the “Register now” button.

Please complete one form per participant (type over the questions with your answers), noting that the details you input should be about the person attending the course. Details of the person making the booking/that requires the invoice (if different) will be requested further along in the registration process.