To find out more about what we have been up to in the 2023-2024 year in Speech Bubbles please take a look at:
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If you would like to catch up on what we’ve been doing in 2022-2023 you can read all about it here:
download pdf of our annual report
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In this piece of research carried out by Dr Jonathan Barnes he looks at the impact Speech Bubbles has on Teaching Assistants who help deliver the sessions. Well worth a read!
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Happiness matters and it matters hugely to learning. In England today however, it is clear that many children do not have positive experiences of school. Significant numbers feel un-connected, unconfident, and unhappy. This study looks at the impact of Speech Bubbles especially on Teaching Assistants who are often the staff giving emotional support in school to pupils.
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We are delighted to present this impact report from our Recovery Programme funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation. This was an adapted version of the highly effective Speech Bubbles programme for children whose communication skills had been negatively affected by the pandemic.
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In this article Jonathan Barnes explores more about Speech Bubbles hearing and honouring children’s invented stories provoking their participation and building skills in confidence, listening and oracy.
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by Dr Jonathan Barnes, Visiting Senior Research Fellow at Canterbury Christ Church University.
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If you would like to catch up on what we’ve been doing in 2020-2021 you can read our annual report:
download pdf of our annual report by Adam Annand
or download pdf of our impact report by Elizabeth Kennedy
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In this article Dr Barnes examines the long term benefits of taking part in Speech Bubbles.
by Dr Jonathan Barnes, Visiting Senior Research Fellow at Canterbury Christ Church University, First Published in the journal of the RSPH. September 2020. Thank you to Grange Primary (SE1) for support with this research.
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Report by Pro Bono Economics (Ernst & Young) provides an economic evaluation of the costs and benefits of the Speech Bubbles programme.
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Report from Dr Heather Price, Psychosocial Research Group, UEL, 2015-17
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In this 2015 report, Dr Jonathan Barnes (Sydney De Haan Research Centre for The Arts and Health, Canterbury Christ Church University) evaluates the extended Speech Bubbles programme funded by The Shine Trust.
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Speech Bubbles’s Adam Annand explains how drama workshops are helping children who are selectively mute to overcome their shyness
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Find out just what happened in Speech Bubbles before, during and after the coronavirus first lockdown.
by Adam Annand, London Bubble, August 2020
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A chapter about Speech Bubbles is included in this book Edited by John Coventon; Pub Trentham Books;Oct 2011
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