This is a rather different post from usual today. People often ask us to post more about running an independent speech therapy practise. This post is about a very specific but very important thing many independent SLTs are dealing with at the moment, alongside all other businesses in the EU – GDPR. This post contains […]
We just wanted to let you all know that we have exciting plans for the website over the next year! We can’t tell you everything right now as it’s not all finalized, but we wanted to let you know that we are half-way through our first e-book and we are very excited about it! We […]
If your child is receiving therapy, or you have been practising something at home, how do you know if it’s working? It can be hard when you are with your child every day to notice the small changes that happen and it can feel really disheartening if you think nothing is changing. So here are some ideas […]
What is Cued Articulation? Both Helen and I are massive fans of Jane Passy’s Cued Articulation. Cued Articulation is a signing system for all of the sounds used in English. All 49 phonemes have their own hand sign, showing where in the mouth the sound is made and how. As Speech Therapists we think about each consonant […]
Helen and I have been given some great resources to review over the Easter Holidays – lucky us! Helen reviewed the fab Orchard Toys games – Frog party and Match and Spell earlier in the week. You can read that review here. Today I am going to review another of Orchard Toys new games – […]
Children can have speech sound problems for all sorts of reasons. Sometimes these can be resolved fairly quickly, but for others, they need speech therapy over a very long period of time. One cause of severe speech sound problems is verbal dyspraxia (known in most other countries as Childhood Apraxia of Speech). It’s a diagnosis […]
When teaching a sound in therapy, there are a number of things therapists do to help support the child. Equally, when you are helping a child generalise a sound into their speech at home or in the classroom, there are ways to help as well. Today I’m going to talk about cueing. Now this is […]
Helen found this great article on how to make school plays deaf friendly from the NDCS. So we thought we would write about how to make plays and assemblies more accessible for children with speech and language difficulties. Every child should be included; you might juts have to think laterally about a few things! Don’t assume […]
Our latest post is up on Special Needs Jungle. The topic is – Tips for expanding language at Christmas. The first half of the post gives tips and ideas for children who have difficulties with change and find Christmas difficult. The second half of the post gives tips for expanding language through Christmas activities. You […]
One of the things I most commonly get asked about is toddlers who are slow to start talking. I have written about this before, but I felt like there was quite a bit more to say on the topic, so I thought I’d tackle it again. How many words should my child be using? Just […]
