Top 10 Twinkl resour...
Do you have a Twinkl subscription? We both do – we’ve had them for years. In fact, I’ve had my subscription so long, that I sometimes forget to check what’s new in there. There is so much stuff – whenever I’m stuck for a resource to work on a particular target, Twinkl is one of […]
Top tips for supporting self-esteem in speech ther...
Speech and language therapy does tend to involve practising something that you find difficult over and over again. No-one enjoys doing that! It is particularly difficult if you realise that it is something other people seem to manage effortlessly, but you really struggle with it. It’s so important that we support children’s self-esteem while they […]
Fantastic fronted adverbials and where to find th...
Fronted adverbials. Conjunctions. Determiners. These are just some of the fantastic pieces of technical vocabulary that all children in the UK need to know for their year 6 SATS. Now unless you have taken a linguistics degree, the chances are you don’t know what these words mean, which can make helping with homework very hard. […]
Top tips for encouraging children to babb...
Today, I’m going right back to the earliest building blocks of language – babble. Parents are often (understandably) concerned about when their child said their first word. However, there are other stages of development that come before that. What is babble? Babies make sound from the moment they are born. Obviously, they cry! They all […]
How it feels to have a child with a speech disor...
Today, we are very privileged to have a guest post from a parent. Sarah Moriarty has a child with a severe speech disorder who attends a specialist centre. She has agreed to write about her experiences for us. I’m just going to hand straight over to her as I think her words say it all. […]
Guest post: Semantic feature analy...
Helen and I were thrilled when Sue O’Malley, Specialist Speech and Language Therapist offered to write a post about Semantic feature analysis. It isn’t something I have used ….yet, but it looks really useful and I will be trying this soon! You can find out more about Sue on her website www.chattertutor.co.uk. Here is her […]
New resourc...
I am very aware that I need to keep therapy fun. We are constantly asking the child to do the thing they find hardest – again and again. So to help keep a child engaged in therapy, many therapists use toys and games. However there are only so many times I can play Buckaroo in […]
Top tips for encouraging children to copy sou...
This post is in response to a question that someone asked. We had an email from someone on our mailing list who asked how they could encourage their child to imitate speech sounds. Here are some ideas. Start by copying them. Copy what your child does and the sounds that they make. This is something we […]
5 tips to help children link wo...
I often see children for assessment who are using a few words, but have a limited range of language. Often these children tend to just say one word when they speak, rather than linking 2 or more words together. So today I’m going to talk about when children start to move on from single words […]
Making plays and assemblies inclus...
It may still be November, but some of the schools I visit are already starting to practise their Christmas plays. So I thought I would write about how to make plays and assemblies more accessible for children with speech and language difficulties. Every child should be included; you might juts have to think laterally about a […]
