“Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury. It is a necessity.” – Kay Redfield Jamison Play is vital for young children’s learning, and the main way in which language skills (and lots of other skills) develop. Through play, children make sense of the world, learn and use new vocabulary, […]
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Today is DLD Awareness day. I’m sure there will be people reading this who don’t know what DLD is, and that’s why we need an awareness day! It stands for Developmental Language Disorder, and it is when children have a specific difficulty with language processing, which affects their understanding of what is said to them […]
Developing speech and language skills through so...
“Where words fail, music speaks” – Hans Christian Andersen Songs are powerful – for many of us they evoke memories and express emotions. However, perhaps most of all, they can be fun! Children are no different. Many children love music and singing – and they usually don’t have the same inhibitions about doing it publicly […]
5 places to find online training for speech therapi...
I have been to some great training courses in person over the years that I have been a speech therapist. There is something really great about attending a course in person – you get totally immersed in the topic with no distractions, and you get to discuss the material with fellow attendees and with the […]
Understanding two key wo...
The language of following instructions can be very confusing for young children. As Elizabeth explained in this post, when you give an instruction, very often a child does not actually need to understand all the words to follow it. In fact, sometimes they don’t really need to understand the words at all – they can […]