Many of the children I work with (especially those at junior and secondary age) have word-finding difficulties. It’s a term you often see written in speech therapy reports. But what exactly does this mean and how can you help? What is a word-finding difficulty? Basically, a word-finding difficulty is exactly what it sounds like – […]
This is the third in a series of posts with quick and hopefully simple ideas for you to try this weekend. Life can be busy and it can be so difficult to fit in practising your child’s speech and language targets in the middle of everything else. So the aim of these posts is to […]
This is a rather different post from usual today. People often ask us to post more about running an independent speech therapy practise. This post is about a very specific but very important thing many independent SLTs are dealing with at the moment, alongside all other businesses in the EU – GDPR. This post contains […]
Taking turns is something that all young (and some not so young!) children find difficult. It can be particularly challenging for children with language difficulties. Language delay can often mean that social interaction is a little delayed as well. Turn-taking is something I often suggest for nursery staff to work on with a preschool child. […]
This is the next in our series of posts about how to teach specific speech sounds. We already have posts about how to teach “f”, how to teach “s” and “how to teach “k”. This post is about the “g” sound. Along with “k”, this is one of the sounds I work on most frequently. […]
Are you concerned about a child’s speech clarity? It might be your own child or a child you are working with. Have you noticed that they struggle to be understood? Do other children their age seem to speak much more clearly than they do? This post aims to give you 5 positive things to do […]
Back in 2014, Elizabeth wrote a post about helping a child to understand the prepositions in, on and under. (I can’t believe it was that long ago!!) You can find that post here. Once your child is able to understand and use these in sentences, you may want to move on to other position words. […]
A rather belated happy new year to you all! I can’t believe it January 8th already! At this time of year, people tend to look back over the last year and forward to the next one. Here at Speech Blog UK headquarters (ie Elizabeth’s lounge!) we tend to do the same. It’s always interesting to […]
Last year we published a list of 20 stocking fillers to help support speech and language development. You can find that list here. Here is an updated list for this year – some of the same ideas and some different ones too. Most of these are for younger children (under about 6) but many of […]
I didn’t think that would work! Sometimes children are in and out of therapy within a few weeks. However, other times, I can be seeing a child for a long time (years). They (naturally) tend to get a bit bored and I am constantly on the look out for new games and ideas to keep […]
