We write a lot of reviews of products and apps on this blog and share lots of exciting things we’ve found that are good for therapy. However, sometimes this can give the impression that you need to spend lots of money to support speech and language development and that’s really not true. You can use […]
My husband is a librarian – we have a lot of books at home! I also love books, and our daughter seems to be developing a love for them too! I don’t think it will be news to anyone reading this that books are a great tool for developing language skills or that reading with […]
We have put quite a few app reviews on this blog, and many of them are really great apps which I love. If you have an iPad which you ever use in therapy, make sure you read this review as we both absolutely love this app! Elizabeth and I were lucky enough to be contacted […]
Since it’s half-term this week, we thought it was time to post some more reviews of products we love. This is the first of three reviews this week of products we have been lucky enough to be sent to review. Today, the Colour Match puzzles by Orchard Toys. This is a very simple set of […]
So, you have just received a set of targets from your Speech Therapist. The chances are there are words on there you don’t use everyday, although hopefully the therapist has explained them! We often talk about semantics, concepts, irregular tenses etc and how to help your child understand and use them. Prepositions are another target […]
A few weeks ago, my daughter wanted to play “teaching children to talk”! She had one of her teddies and said that he couldn’t talk and what could we do. I suggested teaching him to sign, but she said “don’t be silly mummy. Get my doctor’s set and I’ll give him some medicine!” If she […]
Attention and listening skills are incredibly important as they underpin all learning. If you aren’t listening, you won’t hear all the words and you may not get the whole message. If you aren’t paying attention it also makes learning very hard. We have written about how speech therapists talk about attention and listening skills in […]
We’ve talked before about our love of Orchard Toys, here and here. They are good, sturdy games which look great , last well around enthusiastic children who like to test pieces out in their mouths (!) and are great fun too. A couple of weeks ago, Elizabeth posted about the Pig in Pants game. You […]
Today we are joining in with the Linky started by Jenna at Speech Room News. The question is about our top 5 resources for working on vocabulary. This is a great question as I spend a lot of time doing vocabulary work. So many children with receptive and expressive language problems of all ages have […]
Are you listening….. Then I’ll begin – by Elizabeth Last week Helen started writing about the terminology we use when writing reports. Although we all try hard to explain ourselves as clearly as we can, we still have to use a certain amount of technical vocabulary, and things that make perfect sense to us may […]
