York Road Language Unit
Name / Address / Phone Number
York Road Junior School and Language Unit
York Road
Dartford
Kent
DA1 1SQ
Language Unit Telephone –
01322 228669
Language Unit Fax – 01322 274490
Person in Charge
Mrs Mary Hamilton – Teacher in Charge
Age Range of Children Supported
5 – 11 years
Brief Description of Special Needs
catered for
They will comprise of 4 broad groups of
children whose language disorder is their primary difficulty, and whose
non-verbal ability is in the average range or above.
- Children with mainly phonological/
grammatical problems, this is, who have difficulty with the acquisition of
the grammatical structure of language, including word order and word endings
in expressive language.
- Children with problems parallel to
those in (1) above, but much ,more severe because they have difficulty in
understanding what is said to them their disorder is described as receptive.
- Children with problems mainly in the
areas of semantics and or pragmatics. These children are described as having
semantic/pragmatic difficulty.
- Children with developmental verbal
dyspraxia and who have difficulty in co-ordinating at will fine rapid tongue
and lip movements necessary for the production of complex sequences of
sounds used in speech. Sometimes there is a fluctuating hyper nasality
because of palatial inco-ordination.
- Children with Aspergers Syndrome and
similar mild Autistic Spectrum Disorders
How Parents Obtain a Place
Children must be statemented with York Road
Language Unit as the school named. Parents/carers can phone to arrange a visit
to view the Unit.
Website
www.york-road.kent.sch.uk (under
construction)
information supplied by York Road Language Unit February
2004