Is your school taking part in No Pens Day Wednesday on 4th October? In case you haven’t heard of this, it is an initiative started by The Communication Trust which does just what it says on the tin – a whole day of teaching when no-one picks up a pen! This year will be the […]
Last week Helen wrote about attention and listening skills in younger, preschool children. You can read that post with some great ideas and strategies here. When children get older and start school, good listening skills are a key factor in academic progress. If you can’t listen to information and instructions, learning is much harder. By […]
Does your child find the “f” sound hard? Now let’s be clear, we are talking about the sound ‘ffff’ not any rude words! This is the second in our series of posts about making specific speech sounds. You can read the first post about teaching the “k” sound here. When should a child be able […]
Nobody wants to keep doing something they know they struggle with. Children are no different. Therapy and practise can take a while and we really need to keep the child motivated. It is important to keep sessions positive and fun. So when you are planning your sessions or thinking about how to help a child, remember to […]
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 […]
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 […]
Before I get into the subject of the post today, I just wanted to let you know that we have created a new free e-book called “How to support a child with speech sound difficulties”. To get it, you just need to sign up and join our mailing list. Click here or on the link […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
