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 […]
Words such as long and short seem very simple, but actually they can be difficult for children to understand. This is because they are quite abstract words – the concept of “long” depends on what else is around it. So, a ruler might seem long if you compare it to a rubber and a pencil, […]
Last week, Elizabeth started explaining how to help children who find the ‘th’ sound difficult. First of all, we need to work out exactly what the problem is, then the child needs to practise listening to the f and th sounds when you say them to make sure that they can consistently identify which one […]
We have just published a set of 90 photo picture cards for the “f” sound. This is a sound that we work on quite frequently – you say it by putting your top teeth on your bottom lip and some children find it difficult to get the hang of! This pdf download contains:- – 6 […]
We were recently approached by Pentagon Play about hosting a guest post. We have written a number of posts about the importance of play and getting outside to help language development. Pentagon Play make some beautiful children’s play equipment and also have an interesting blog. We liked Sam’s post about adapting the playground to help […]
We just wanted to let you all know that we have exciting plans for the website over the next year! We can’t tell you everything right now as it’s not all finalized, but we wanted to let you know that we are half-way through our first e-book and we are very excited about it! We […]
Here at SpeechblogUK, we really like the Therapy box apps. We have reviewed a few of their apps before. You can read our reviews of the minimal pairs app, Sort it out and ChatAble. Today we are going to talk about their two new apps – Rhyming Bus and Phonics Keyboard. We were lucky enough to be provided […]
This is the next part of our series on narrative therapy. If you missed the other parts, you can find them here – Introduction, who, where, when, what happened and emotions and dialogue. Today, I’m going to talk about the end of the story. I’ve always found that children with language difficulties find this bit […]
This is the next in our series of posts about narrative therapy. You can see the introduction, Part 1 – Who/character and Part 2 – Where/setting by clicking on the links. Today we are talking about the “when” or time of stories. Talking about the time in a story is important as part of setting […]
We changed the clocks on Saturday night and now it’s officially British Summer Time. It will be Easter next weekend, and that must mean it’s spring. Yet I had my winter coat on today!… Time concepts are very difficult for many children to grasp, especially children with language difficulties. The vocabulary for the seasons and […]
