I think almost everyone knows what social media is these days! And if you don’t, then you’re unlikely to be reading this post!.. However, you may just be using social media for personal stuff and not for speech therapy. Many speech therapists I meet don’t realise how useful it can be for liaising with colleagues, […]
Children with speech and language difficulties often struggle with learning and retaining new vocabulary. This is an area I often work on, and I’m sure I am not alone! Here are some of my favourite resources for working on this skill. They are listed in no particular order. . Word Aware (Spiral Bind) If you […]
I bought a new game called Mental Blox a couple of weeks ago and I love it! Good language games are not always easy to come by, so I thought I would share it here in case it is of use to anyone. No-one has asked me to write this review and I bought the […]
We have written several posts about encouraging children to say their first words and begin linking them together. For example, Help! My toddler isn’t talking, Top Tips for putting words together and Top Tips for verbs. However, some children get a bit stuck at this stage. They may have quite a varied vocabulary and be […]
Often it can seem like you need to buy particular toys or take a child off into a corner alone to work on their speech and language skills. Time is short for all of us and it can be really hard to find time to do a specific “speech session” with your child, especially if […]
I’ll be honest – we’ve been putting off writing this post. Speech sounds are something we work with all day every day and we are constantly making judgements about whether a child’s speech clarity is within the average range or not. However, it’s difficult to summarize it in a post like this. I know it’s […]
This post is in response to a question I have been asked quite frequently by schools recently. “We have bought some iPads for the school (or SEN department). What apps should we get that we can use with lots of different children?” This is our guide to the best and most versatile apps for Infant […]
Hi everyone! Happy new year from Elizabeth and me! Hope you all had a lovely break over Christmas! One thing I always enjoy at the end of the year is that we get a report sent through by WordPress giving us some of our statistics for the blog over the last year. In 2015 we […]
There is so much information available online these days. Pretty much anything that you choose to put into a search engine will bring up a huge number of hits. However, we all know that just because something is on the internet, it doesn’t mean that it’s good information. Today, I thought I’d share with you […]
Adjectives are really important words in a sentence. For example, think about these three sentences: The man took a walk through the forest. The old man took a long walk through the dark forest. The elderly man took a meandering walk through the gloomy forest. The first sentence makes sense but the adjectives (describing words) […]
