Helen recently wrote about working on inferencing skills. You can read her post here. Today I am going to write about prediction skills. You are likely to see inferencing and prediction skills spoken about together and there are similarities between them. It is also highly likely that if you find one hard, you will also […]
I work with children between the ages of 2 and 11 years old and we work on a range of targets. I may see an eleven year old and work on higher level language skills and inferencing, my next child may need to practise using the k sound and then I might be working on […]
Well, in typical British bank holiday form, it is indeed raining cats and dogs today! But I thought I would grab the bull by the horns, put pen to paper and write this post. These are just some of the fantastic idioms we have in the English language and that can cause real confusion for children […]
So here is the next in our series on Narrative Therapy. If you haven’t seen the others it might be an idea to have a look first! You can read about the introduction, who/character, where and when. Then today I am going to concentrate on what happened. This is main part of the story. You […]
As a travelling therapist, I spend a lot of time in my car, driving between appointments. This can get a bit frustrating sometimes and feels like a lot of time is wasted, when I could be writing notes, or making resources or seeing children, or anything more productive than driving really! However, I’ve found a […]
So, Minecraft!! Have you heard of it? Do your children constantly talk about it? Are you a bit confused by what all the fuss is about? If you aren’t interested in computer games and don’t have people in your household who are, it might all seem a bit baffling. But I find it useful to […]
This is the third post in our series on narrative therapy. If you haven’t read the others you might want to go and have a quick look first! Read the introduction here and ideas for teaching who here. Helen did mention that the order you work through the questions may alter between younger and older […]
Our auditory memory is our ability to retain and recall information we hear. It allows us to process and understand longer, more complex instructions, attend and listen and acquire new information. Children with reduced auditory memory can find it very challenging to follow instructions and retain learning. Helen wrote about memory and strategies to support auditory […]
We have started a series of posts looking at high level language skills. As children get older, language and its demands become more sophisticated. It is often around Junior school age that these more subtle language difficulties can become apparent. You can read Helen’s post about understanding and supporting words with multiple meanings here. Today, […]
What is narrative therapy? When we talk about ‘narrative’, we are referring to the ability to tell a story or series of events with precision and clarity. For younger children this will happen verbally, but it also transfers to written work for older children. This is a very complex skill that requires remembering what happened, […]
