It’s almost the end of the school year! We may be still waiting for the sun to come out in the UK, but lots of us are winding down for the end of term and getting ready to go away! Whether you are at home or away during the school summer break, you are likely […]
Roar! I love dinosaurs and so do many of the children I work with! I was excited when they were included in the Key Stage 1 curriculum – what a great engaging topic! It never ceases to amaze me, the quantity and detail of information children can retain about dinosaurs, even if it’s not all […]
I know personally that food shopping is something I dread. It’s busy and I hate the way supermarkets move things around so you can’t find them! I also know that for many parents the idea of taking children with you is even worse! But, sometimes if you can involve your children in the activity you […]
Many children find the temporal concepts of before and after hard. They are tricky as they change depending on where in the sentence they are, making the rules harder to learn. You will also often find it set as a target. So how can you teach a child before and after? As before and after are […]
You don’t need to sit down at a table for half an hour to help your child with their speech and language skills. Often the best way is to just bring the targets into things you are doing day to day. Check out the other posts in this series – Laundry, Bath time, Meal times, […]
Our recent posts on speech sound development and the speech therapy process have proved popular. Speech and Language Therapists tend to use specific terminology when we describe a child’s speech. Although we all know what we mean by this, it isn’t clear to non speech therapists! We aren’t expecting you to be an expert. We […]
We have written a number of post in this series. The idea is to show you how to work on your speech and language targets during everyday activities. This can be really useful when you are trying to help new skills generalise and also to provide extra repetition. You can read our posts on trips […]
We have written about working your speech and language targets into normal, day to day activities before. You can read our tips for bath time, trips to the park and trips to the beach. So today, I am going to talk about working your targets into meal times. Now, if meal times are really hectic […]
Helen’s post last week talked about which sounds your child should be saying and when. If you haven’t seen that post you can read it here. So today, I am going to talk about what we actually do to help a child make and use those sounds. Before I start, please remember if you are concerned […]
Well, we are nearly there. Three more sleeps! Are you ready? I think I am, but that probably means I’ve forgotten something! Just to help get you in the Christmas spirit, Helen and I thought we would do a quick round up of some of our Christmas posts. Advent calendars and language skills. Helen gave […]
