CLICKETY BOOKS - Key Persons
Craig is a whirlwind of creative ideas and he is passionate about developing characters that children will love and stories they will want to hear again and again!
He created Clickety Books to provide engaging resources for his son who had speech and language difficulties. He drew on Sally Bates' speech and language expertise and the artistic talent of Sarah-Leigh Wills to create the first Clickety Books.
Craig then persuaded the talented Rik Mayall to read the first stories and a unique package was developed.
Since then Craig has continued to delight children with numerous new award winning Clickety characters and stories that continue to support the development of speech, language and communication.
Sally is a strong believer in the importance and value of sound play for early speech and literacy development. She is the author of our award winning Early Soundplay series and a member of the orginal Clickety Books editorial team where her blend of theoretical and clinical expertise underpins the development of all our books and resources.
Sally brings a unique combination of skills with her background in both phonetics and speech and language therapy. She is a senior lecturer in speech, language and literacy development. Her research interests include developmental speech sound disorders and the relationship between speech perception, speech production and early literacy development.
Her clinical experience includes working with children with specific language impairment and as part of a Sure Start project developing resources to promote early language skills.
As well as sound play, I love cycling and in fact have composed most of the Early Soundplay stories whilst riding along the cliffs where I live. I also love gardening and reading in the sun.
Sarah-Leigh Wills has been the illustrator for Clickety Books first two series - Sound Steps and Early Soundplay.
Her unique and slightly quirky style delights children and is appreciated by the adults who read Clickety stories again, again and again!
She has worked closely with the editorial team to ensure the illustrations support the text and add to our overall aim to enhance children's language development.
Wendy is a consultant speech and language therapist with LINGO. She has worked in schools and early years settings, higher education and national charities.
She was Professional Director at the Communication Trust until 2015 and has developed several successful programmes to support children's speech, language and communication skills.