Children can have speech sound problems for all sorts of reasons. Sometimes these can be resolved fairly quickly, but for others, they need speech therapy over a very long period of time. One cause of severe speech sound problems is verbal dyspraxia (known in most other countries as Childhood Apraxia of Speech). It’s a diagnosis […]
Our latest post for Special Needs Jungle went up today. The post is about what questions to ask when you visit schools, especially if your child has special educational needs. You can read it here. If you find the post useful we have created a hand out with all the questions on. If my technical […]
This time last year, Elizabeth and I were thrilled to become regular columnists on the fantastic Special Needs Jungle website. On the off-chance that you haven’t already come across this website, do go take a look at the wealth of information about anything and everything to do with SEN. In particular, if you need advice […]
One of the things I most commonly get asked about is toddlers who are slow to start talking. I have written about this before, but I felt like there was quite a bit more to say on the topic, so I thought I’d tackle it again. How many words should my child be using? Just […]
We are delighted to have Rachel Sambrooks from Chatterblocks writing for us this week. Rachel talks about her experiences of trying to get help for her daughter who has a Specific Language Impairment (SLI). Unfortunately, Rachel is not alone in her experiences and I have heard many similar ones over the years. We all need […]
Helen has already reviewed the fantastic new Colour Match game from Orchard Toys this week. You can read her review here. I had another new one – Catch and Count game, very kindly sent to us from Orchard toys. This game is designed for children aged 3 and over and for 2-4 players. It is […]
I was so busy sharing this post on Facebook and Twitter yesterday, that I forgot to blog about it! Our latest column on the Special Needs Jungle website went up yesterday morning. It’s about the importance of differentiation for children with SEN, in response to Liz Truss’ speech where she says differentiation is about having […]
Our latest column on Special Needs Jungle is up today. This time my topic is when and how to refer to speech and language therapy. You can check the post out here. Do let us know what you think, either here or over there.
I had a real life experience of vocabulary learning this week. We have been musing for a while on the idea of changing this little blog into a self-hosted blog to give us the opportunity to do more with it. I may have lost some of you already?…. Having decided that now was the time […]
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 […]
