Attention and listening skills are incredibly important as they underpin all learning. If you aren’t listening, you won’t hear all the words and you may not get the whole message. If you aren’t paying attention it also makes learning very hard. We have written about how speech therapists talk about attention and listening skills in […]
Monthly archives for February, 2014
Top Tips for preparing for medical appointments by Elizab...
Our latest post on Special Needs Jungle is up today. Elizabeth has written about how to prepare for medical appointments and building good relationships between therapists and parents. You can check the post out here. There’s so much great information on the website generally – don’t forget to have a look around while you’re there!
Classroom observations by He...
Over the past few weeks, I have been into several schools/nurseries to observe children. It’s something speech and language therapists often do, especially at the assessment stage, but I can understand that it probably seems like a strange thing to spend a session doing, sitting and watching! So I thought today I’d write about what […]
They didn’t tell me that at University……. by Elizab...
Both Helen and I have written before about being a Speech and Language Therapist, how we ended up in this profession, the bits we love and the bits that aren’t so great. However after a rather random email between myself and the mother of one of the children I am seeing about the child’s inability […]