Primary School Intervention Groups

Zones of Regulation

The Zones of Regulation is a visual system that supports children to express and regulate their emotions. This is a six week virtual group for children in Year 3 and 4 that teaches categorisation of emotions into four Zones and how to use these to express how they are feeling.

The group includes:

• six virtual sessions led by a SaLT
• a follow up activity to complete at school or at home
• a strategy of the week to support emotional regulation
• an emotions check in board for school and home
• an end of intervention summary report summarising how each child performed against the group targets

DLD & Me

This is a 12 week programme to help children and young people with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) understand their strengths and needs, their diagnosis and how they can advocate for their own communication in everyday life. It focuses on building confidence in their strengths, understanding what helps them and how to share this information with others and works towards developing independence for the future. The group context also supports children and young people to know they are not alone with the difficulties they experience. 

This group includes:

• 12 weekly sessions delivered by a Speech and Language Therapist
• An introductory session for parents
• Follow up activities to be completed at school or at home
• an end of intervention summary report which details how the child performed against the group targets

Learning emotions with The Transporters

The Transporters is an animated series of short videos, each teaching a different emotion. This six week virtual group for children in Key Stage 1 helps learn 6 basic emotions (happy, sad, tired, excited, angry, afraid).

The group includes:

• six virtual sessions led by a SaLT
• follow up strategies
• a short activity to complete after each session
• an emotions check in board for school and home
• an end of intervention summary report of how the child performed against group targets

Primary Interact: Developing Social Interaction Skills

Interact is group that helps children develop their social interaction skills. This 6 week group for children in Year 3 and Year 4 is based on the Lego Therapy approach and supports the development of turn taking skills, giving instructions, listening to instructions, asking for help and working collaboratively.

The group includes:

• a pack of paper based resources posted prior to the group starting
• six virtual sessions led by a SaLT
• an end of intervention summary report summarising how each child performed against the group targets

Shape Coding

Shape Coding is an evidenced-based approach that uses shapes to help children form sentences and use grammar effectively.

This is a six week virtual group run by a SaLT that introduces the Shape Coding approach by teaching the key shapes and supports children to form four part sentences, containing information related to who? what doing? what? and where? questions. It also teaches present and past tense verb forms.

The group includes:

• six virtual sessions led by a SaLT
• A follow up activity is provided at the end of each session to complete at school or at home
• An end of intervention summary report summarising how each child performed against the group targets is provided after the last session
• Access to a short training for teachers and support staff on how to implement the approach in the classroom.