An educational psychologist can offer advice if early years settings or families are having difficulty helping a child. Their job is to assess a child’s or young person’s needs and advise the parents or school about his or her:

• speech and language
• communication and relationships with others
• development, understanding and learning
• social relationships, making of friends and wellbeing
• physical skills, such as mobility and coordination
• vision, hearing or medical needs

They:

• offer suggestions about the best way to help your child’s learning
• look at how your child responds to things that are tried
• offer support to early years practitioners to help children who may be experiencing difficulties
• review the progress your child is making.