This is the second in our series of posts with quick and hopefully simple ideas for you to try this weekend. We all know that life gets busy and although we all have the best intentions of helping with home work and practising targets, it can be really hard to find the time, get everything […]
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 […]
Helen had a fantastic idea for a new series of posts. We all know how busy life gets and although we all have the best intentions of helping with home work or practising targets, it can be really hard to find the time, get everything ready, for your child to be in the right mood […]
Well we are half way through December, although I’m not sure how that happened! We are at that tricky time when as an adult I am now where near prepared for Christmas day, but all the children are over excited and completely ready for the school holidays to start. So what do you do, when […]
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 […]
“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, […]
When speech and language therapists assess younger children’s understanding of language, we often talk about “key words” or “information carrying words” – ICW’s. ICW’s is a term originally used by the Derbyshire Language Scheme, 1982, Knowles, W and Masidlover, M. What both of these terms refer to, are the number of words in a sentence […]
This is the fourth in our series of posts about teaching sounds. You can read the post about teaching the “k” sound here and the “f” sound here. A few weeks ago, Helen wrote about the “s” sound. As Helen explained, there are more common errors we hear with the “s” sound, but there are also […]
We have written a lot about how you can use everyday toys in speech therapy. You don’t need special resources to work on language and communication – with a bit of thought and planning, you can use the toys you have around the house or around your school or nursery. For more ideas about using […]
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 […]
