Adapting mental health support for young people with speech and language challenges

Our Lightning lesson Adapting mental health support gives practical advice for how to make changes to mental health support so it is more accessible for young people with speech and language challenges.

Intended audience

Staff who work with secondary-aged young people. This could include teachers, teaching assistants, SENCos, speech and language therapy assistants and other staff working in health or education.

Time commitments

This Lightning lesson will take approximately 20 minutes to complete.

Pre-requisite Knowledge

This Lightning lesson is part of our “going further” series. It is assumed that professionals have either completed Introduction to speech, language and communication course on the Speech and Language UK Learning Centre, or have equivalent knowledge and skills gained through other formal or informal learning, and/or relevant experience working with children and young people.