I can hardly believe it’s December tomorrow – it always creeps up on me so quickly. In a sudden panic after realising this, I have been rushing around trying to get my daughter’s advent calendar sorted out, and realising it’s time I got going with some Christmas shopping. Advent calendars are so varied these days […]
Helen wrote earlier in the week about my posts, so today I am going to return the favour! We have both found it interesting to see which posts get the most hits and which ones don’t, as it’s not always what we expect! Helen’s highest ranked post was Generalising speech sounds which has gained […]
So, Helen and I have been writing our little blog for nearly a year! Yay us. It’s been an interesting year with a sharp learning curve, which after attending Blogfest on Saturday, I realise we are still very much on! I love looking at the statistics for the blog; seeing which posts people like, how […]
This is the sixth and final part of our series on understanding your child’s speech and language therapy report. Check out parts one, two, three, four and five if you missed them. Today focusses on social skills (or pragmatic language). This is a huge area, so this will only be a very brief whistle-stop tour […]
It often surprises people that I am a huge advocate of signing with children. People often think that, since speech therapists are trying to encourage children to talk, we think baby signing and similar approaches will hold back verbal language. Actually, nothing could be further from the truth! Of course, children with hearing difficulties may […]
This is the 5th part in our series about understanding your child’s speech and language therapy report. If you have missed them, there is an overview, a post about attention and listening, one about comprehension and one about expression. This post is going to look at speech sounds sometimes called phonology or articulation. This section of the […]
This is part 4 of our series on understanding your child’s speech and language therapy report – if you haven’t seen the other posts, you can read the over view here, a post on attention and listening here and the last post on comprehension here. So, this post is going to look at expressive language […]
A few days ago, we took our daughter to see a health professional for an initial assessment. As someone who sees families regularly to take a case history and assess a child, it was interesting being on the other side of the process. I should point out before I start that we were really happy […]
I have written before about my love of Orchard Toys. You can read my post about their fantastic dominoes here. I now have quite a collection, but was thrilled when Orchard Toys asked me to review one of their new games – Pigs in Pants. I was sent a free copy to review. Pigs in […]
This is part three of our series on understanding your child’s speech and language therapy report – if you missed the first two, you can check them out here and here . Today I’m going to focus on comprehension (understanding). This is a big area, but I’m going to try and give you an overview […]
