Helen and I have been very busy creating our first online training course and it is now available! We are really pleased with it. From our work with nursery/ school staff and parents we know there are many people out there who are looking for training, especially to help children with unclear speech. We decided […]
Posts in category Advice for parents
Irregular past tense verbs – Ideas on how to teach t...
Before Christmas, Helen wrote a post about teaching children to use the regular past tense. Once the child has mastered this, the next fun step is all the irregular verbs! As with nearly all grammatical rules in English there are always exceptions. We didn’t ‘blowed’ out the candles on the birthday cake yesterday we didn’t ‘sleeped’ and […]
20 stocking fillers for speech and langua...
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 […]
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 […]
Big or little? Ideas for teaching size conce...
We have written posts about teaching other early concepts – colour and prepositions. But today we are going to think about the early size concepts of big and little. Just before I start, there are a couple of points I want to run through. Firstly, there is the choice of words. Speech Therapists all tend […]
listening to sounds in wo...
We have written a series of posts about phonological awareness. This is the ability to hear and tell the difference between sounds both in isolation and in words. You can read our other posts about listening to sounds, rhyme and syllables. Once a child can tell the difference between two sounds consistently, you can move on to […]
Supporting children with unclear spe...
Unfortunately, due to a very high volume of enquiries, we are not able to send details to any more enquirers. If you have already received an application form, please do return it. Otherwise, we are closed for now. However, do watch this space for news of the final course when it is released! Do you […]
The best toys for early language developm...
I have recently been working with a number of younger children. As speech therapists we are regularly contacted by families seeking reassurance and assessment for their 2 year old who isn’t talking yet. One question that often comes up is “What toys or games will help my child?”. There are so many toys available for babies […]
Rhyme – advice and id...
Phonological awareness is a key skill in developing a child’s speech and reading skills. Check out Helen’s post about it here. As Helen said, phonological awareness includes a range of skills, including rhyme, but they all involve the ability to hear and discriminate sounds in words. Many of these skills are needed before a child starts to read […]