Work Matters: Training: Speech and language - Observe, wait, listen ..

A speech and language training programme targeting deprived areas in South Wales has raised practitioner skills and boosted confidence when it comes to tackling communication problems. The courses have been rolled out by Merthyr Tydfil-based multi-agency project Flying Start, which provides free part-time childcare places with funding from the Welsh Assembly Government. Flying Start's speech and language therapist, and course facilitator, Beth Busani, says, 'The aim of the project was to make a difference to the life chances of children...