Have you finished your Christmas shopping yet? If not, this post may be for you! I often get asked for Christmas present ideas of things which will help support speech and language skills. So here are 20 ideas of stocking fillers. I’ve tried to keep them both small and fairly inexpensive. Most of them are […]
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Why and how to talk to your b...
We talk a lot here about how to communicate with toddlers, preschoolers and school-age children to help develop their language skills. However, the building blocks of language start developing right from the earliest days of a child’s life. Children understand language before they can use it, and even though most children are not saying words […]
Teaching past tense ve...
Grammar can be very tricky for some children. This is hardly surprising when you think about it – there are so many rules about how sentences fit together. A lot of these centre around verbs (action words). Take a simple verb such as “jump”. We change this depending on the sentence. You might say […]
You know you’re a speech therapist whenR...
Elizabeth and I were chatting about all the little things that happen in everyday life because we’re speech therapists. If you are a speech therapist, I wonder if you recognise any of these?…. You know you’re a speech therapist when…. You are in the supermarket and instead of pulling your purse out of your handbag, […]
Social stor...
We talk a lot about using visual strategies to support language skills. We have talked about other visual strategies in the past – see this post about why visuals help, this post about signing, a handout on the freebies page, and this post about visual timetables. Today, I’m going to talk about social stories. This is […]
Encouraging eye cont...
Sometimes, children with speech sound difficulties tend to give slightly less eye contact. This means that they don’t look as much at other people when they are talking. This is not always the case, but I have often had parents comment on it. Certainly, when I am doing speech sound therapy, I spend a lot […]