Social communication skills matter. In friendship, in school, and in society.<\/h2>\n
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Our research is refining a speech and language therapy intervention that will improve the communication skills of children with Social Communication Disorder (SCD). This has the potential to make a profound difference to the quality of their lives.<\/p>\n
[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_code admin_label=”Code: Spacing only” _builder_version=”3.17.6″] [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text: What is the Social Communication Intervention Programme?” _builder_version=”3.17.6″]<\/p>\n The Social Communication Intervention Programme (SCIP) is a speech and language therapy programme for children who have social communication disorder (SCD).<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text: SCIP delivery” _builder_version=”3.17.6″]<\/p>\n A team of researchers led by Dr Catherine Adams have developed the SCIP intervention through a series of research studies. The research has defined the content of the intervention and tested its effectiveness.<\/p>\n In a randomised controlled trial, SCIP was delivered by a team of research speech and language therapists (SLT) and specially trained therapy assistants to children aged 6-11 years old in their mainstream primary schools.<\/p>\n The programme worked: results<\/a> showed that SCIP brought about greater changes in the children\u2019s social communication and conversation skills when compared to the children in the control group who received treatment as usual.<\/p>\n The most recent SCIP research provided training and supervision to speech and language therapists, who are not researchers, to deliver SCIP to children with social communication disorder.<\/p>\n We have developed a new way to measure changes in communication skills that are meaningful to families.<\/p>\n We have also undertaken a survey to find out what SLT services children with language, pragmatic and social communication disorders are receiving.<\/p>\n If you are a parent, teacher or young person with SCD and you want to stay up to date with SCIP research then email Dr Catherine Adams using the link below.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_button admin_label=”Button: Email” button_url=”mailto:scip@manchester.ac.uk” button_text=”Email us” _builder_version=”3.17.6″ button_text_size__hover_enabled=”off” button_text_size__hover=”null” button_one_text_size__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_text_size__hover=”null” button_two_text_size__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_text_size__hover=”null” button_text_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_text_color__hover=”null” button_one_text_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_text_color__hover=”null” button_two_text_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_text_color__hover=”null” button_border_width__hover_enabled=”off” button_border_width__hover=”null” button_one_border_width__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_border_width__hover=”null” button_two_border_width__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_border_width__hover=”null” button_border_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_border_color__hover=”null” button_one_border_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_border_color__hover=”null” button_two_border_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_border_color__hover=”null” button_border_radius__hover_enabled=”off” button_border_radius__hover=”null” button_one_border_radius__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_border_radius__hover=”null” button_two_border_radius__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_border_radius__hover=”null” button_letter_spacing__hover_enabled=”off” button_letter_spacing__hover=”null” button_one_letter_spacing__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_letter_spacing__hover=”null” button_two_letter_spacing__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_letter_spacing__hover=”null” button_bg_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_bg_color__hover=”null” button_one_bg_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_bg_color__hover=”null” button_two_bg_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_bg_color__hover=”null”]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_button][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text: Toolkit icon & text” _builder_version=”3.17.6″]<\/p>\n The University of Manchester has a proud history of developing intervention programmes for children with social communication problems.<\/p>\n Dr Catherine Adams has conducted research in this area of speech and language therapy for over 25 years, helping numerous families along the way.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\nWhat is the Social Communication Intervention Programme?<\/h2>\n
Testing the programme<\/h2>\n
Training SLTs to deliver SCIP<\/h2>\n
Making it work for you<\/h2>\n
Keep informed<\/h2>\n
Experienced in SCD research<\/h2>\n
Further Reading about SCIP research<\/h2>\n
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Children who have Social Communication Disorder<\/a><\/p>\nBackground to SCIP<\/a><\/p>\n