This is the sixth and final part of our series on understanding your child’s speech and language therapy report. Check out parts one, two, three, four and five if you missed them. Today focusses on social skills (or pragmatic language). This is a huge area, so this will only be a very brief whistle-stop tour […]
We are joining up with Jenna again this week for her ‘Love it and list it’ linky. This month the list was for language apps. I found it really hard to just pick 5 as there are some fantastic apps out there! So, in no particular order… Splingo’s language Universe. This app supports comprehension of […]
It often surprises people that I am a huge advocate of signing with children. People often think that, since speech therapists are trying to encourage children to talk, we think baby signing and similar approaches will hold back verbal language. Actually, nothing could be further from the truth! Of course, children with hearing difficulties may […]
I have attended the TES show for years now and love going. A group of us travel up together and make a day of it. I’m very lucky that this year my friend, who is a specialist teacher, came with me. I love looking at resources with her, as I look at them with SLT […]
This is the 5th part in our series about understanding your child’s speech and language therapy report. If you have missed them, there is an overview, a post about attention and listening, one about comprehension and one about expression. This post is going to look at speech sounds sometimes called phonology or articulation. This section of the […]
We’ve talked before about our love of Orchard Toys, here and here. They are good, sturdy games which look great , last well around enthusiastic children who like to test pieces out in their mouths (!) and are great fun too. A couple of weeks ago, Elizabeth posted about the Pig in Pants game. You […]
Today we are joining in with the Linky started by Jenna at Speech Room News. The question is about our top 5 resources for working on vocabulary. This is a great question as I spend a lot of time doing vocabulary work. So many children with receptive and expressive language problems of all ages have […]
This is part 4 of our series on understanding your child’s speech and language therapy report – if you haven’t seen the other posts, you can read the over view here, a post on attention and listening here and the last post on comprehension here. So, this post is going to look at expressive language […]
A few days ago, we took our daughter to see a health professional for an initial assessment. As someone who sees families regularly to take a case history and assess a child, it was interesting being on the other side of the process. I should point out before I start that we were really happy […]
I have written before about my love of Orchard Toys. You can read my post about their fantastic dominoes here. I now have quite a collection, but was thrilled when Orchard Toys asked me to review one of their new games – Pigs in Pants. I was sent a free copy to review. Pigs in […]
