It’s the summer holidays, we’ve had a bit of sunshine and the kids want to play outside. Sometimes, with speech and language work, it’s easy to give the impression that children need to be indoors, sitting still and doing something paper-based. This is not true! There are so many ways to incorporate speech and language […]
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Visual timetab...
Many children who have speech and language difficulties benefit from using pictures, signs and other visuals to support their communication skills. Visual timetables are very frequently recommended. But who are these useful for and how do you use them? Who benefits from a visual timetable These are most often used for children on the autistic […]
Rhyming Bus giveaw...
On Tuesday, Elizabeth wrote about rhyme. If you missed it, you can read that post here. In it, she mentioned a lovely app from Therapy Box called Rhyming Bus. We have previously reviewed this app – you can read the review here. Therapy Box have kindly offered us 5 copies of this app to giveaway! […]
Listening to speech sou...
Phonological awareness can be defined as the ability to explicitly access and manipulate the sound structure of spoken words – Hatcher, Duff and Hulme, Sound Linkage, 2014 So, what on earth does that mean?! It’s probably easiest to explain it by talking about some of the skills that are involved in phonological awareness. These include:- […]
A Parent’s Guide to the Speech Therapy Proc...
If you have been following us on Facebook or Twitter, or you have subscribed to our mailing list, you will hopefully have seen updates about our e-book. The past 6 months or so have been incredibly busy, as between our full-time jobs, families and the blog itself, we have also been writing an e-book! We […]
How to have fun with children who don’t want to engage with ...
As speech and language therapists, we work with a wide range of children, of different ages and with different needs. Some children love every game that you offer them, happily join in with most activities and are easy to keep focussed. Others take a little more creativity and get bored more easily! Some children (particularly, […]