The charity said it wanted to make it easier for children, families and educational professionals that need help to be able 'to find us when they need us'.
From today I CAN will be called Speech and Language UK: Changing young people’s lives.
The charity said it was changing its name, vision and mission to ‘close the gap between the number of children it reaches and the number who need help’.
The rebrand follows a poll of teachers by the charity in June this year to look at the impact of the pandemic on children's language development, which revealed that as many as 1.7 million children are now at risk of not being able to talk or understand words at an age-appropriate level – equivalent to almost one in five school-age children.
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