Before Christmas, Helen wrote a post about teaching children to use the regular past tense. Once the child has mastered this, the next fun step is all the irregular verbs! As with nearly all grammatical rules in English there are always exceptions. We didn’t ‘blowed’ out the candles on the birthday cake yesterday we didn’t ‘sleeped’ and […]
Happy New Year! Whatever you thought of 2016, it is now over. At this time of year, Helen and I like to look over our most popular posts. Interestingly there are some posts that remain popular every year, but there are some new ones in our Top 10 as well. What speech sounds should my […]
Our latest column for Special Needs Jungle was published yesterday, and it’s a topic I think will interest a lot of people. Do your children tell you about what has happened at school? Most don’t really. It can be even more challenging to get any information if your child has language difficulties. There are some […]
We have written posts about teaching other early concepts – colour and prepositions. But today we are going to think about the early size concepts of big and little. Just before I start, there are a couple of points I want to run through. Firstly, there is the choice of words. Speech Therapists all tend […]
Last week Helen wrote about some of the funny things that can happen when you are a speech therapist. You can read that post here. Whilst we were discussing last week’s post we also thought about some of the other ways our job impacts us as people. Now, I just want to make it […]
You often find that children will develop expressive language to the point where they can produce short sentences e.g. The man is running, the lady is brushing her teeth. However they find it harder to develop longer, more complex sentences and vocabulary. They often need these areas to be specifically taught. As early as year […]
Urgh! I have spent quite a few hours this weekend writing reports to be submitted as part of the EHCP process. I know this is a relatively new system, but I have been writing this type of report for over a decade now. I do know what I am doing! So why did I find […]
We have written a series of posts about phonological awareness. This is the ability to hear and tell the difference between sounds both in isolation and in words. You can read our other posts about listening to sounds, rhyme and syllables. Once a child can tell the difference between two sounds consistently, you can move on to […]
Helen recently found this article from the Dabbling Speechie. Felice wrote about 5 mistakes you make in your first year. So we thought we would continue this idea and think of the 5 things we wished we had known when starting work as a speech and language therapist. We both started work for the NHS. […]
When I see new toys I am always thinking of how I can use them in therapy. I love looking in the supermarkets and toy shops to see what is on offer! You can use nearly any toy in therapy, you just need to know what you are targeting. So today I am going to talk […]
