questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the level of need for NHS health professionals to ask about children’s screen use and social media exposure during routine case histories; and whether guidance will be issued to support clinicians, including newly qualified speech and language therapists, in distinguishing between screen-related language delay and Developmental Language Disorder.
answerText: The Department recognises the issue of children’s screen use and social media exposure, and the role National Health Service professionals can play.Screen use guidance forms a core part of the Government’s response to online harms, complementing regulator...
heading: Speech and Language Therapy: Children