Alice Thornton – Symbolic understanding and its vital importance for early language development

In young children, symbolic language is the foundational ability to use one thing—like a word, gesture, or object—to represent something else. When young children are learning and developing language, symbolic understanding is vitally important.

During this session, Alice Thornton, Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist, will enable us to explore:
• each specific stage of pretend play development
• the cognitive shifts required in a young child’s brain
• how each stage links with and is needed for the stages of early language development
• impact on behaviour
• how to identify and support each level of progress within every day setting life.

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⭐️ About the speaker⭐️ 

Alice Thornton

Alice is a speech and language therapist. In her 34 years of working she has mostly focused on under 5s. This has included preventative work such as Sure Start and ECAT, from Talk to your Bump up to nursery. She has also worked with children showing features of DLD in a specialist early years setting.

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