Play is a really important skill that children need to learn and practise. It helps with language and vocabulary development, sequencing, creative thinking, attention and listening skills, social skills, turn taking – I could go on! You can help your child’s play develop, whatever their age. You don’t need hundreds of expensive toys; you just […]
On Monday we took our 3 year old daughter to the theatre to watch Room on the Broom and other tales by Julia Donaldson. She loved it, and it was obvious that many of the others did too. If you live in the UK and have children, I don’t think Julia Donaldson will need any […]
Something that has come up a few times this week with the parents and teaching assistants I have spoken to revolves around what children can and can’t do. For example I was talking about the concepts of hard versus soft and the TA said he couldn’t do it. So the first question I ask is […]
I love finding new apps that I can use with the kids I see. Like technology or hate it, there are few things that motivate as well as a really good app! I can’t take the credit for finding this one though – I did a joint session with another SLT recently and she had […]
You know how it is when you meet new people and introduce yourself, discuss family and where you live. Then the conversation often ends up being about work, “So, what do you do?”….It’s interesting to hear people’s responses when you answer this question. The most usual response is “I need one of those!” or “Can […]
A while ago I wrote about encouraging children who aren’t using language at all to start using words. You can read that post here. But what about helping them to move on to the next stage – moving on from single words to putting phrases and sentences together? When children have around 50 single words […]
This topic came up twice last week, once with me as the patient at the dentist and again with a parent of a child I see – what should you ask and when. I would like to say that my dentist was brilliant, considering it was the first time we had met and I am […]
You might hear lots of different words and terminology being used; stammering, stuttering, dysfluency or even normal non-fluency. They are all referring to the repetition of sounds, syllables, words and sometimes phrases when someone talks. Sometimes the sound can be elongated or exaggerated rather than repeated and sometimes the person may not be able […]
We’re really excited today that our first guest blog post has been published on the fabulous Special Needs Jungle website. This website is a wonderful resource for parents trying to negotiate their way through the Statementing process and we were really pleased to be asked to contribute a guest blog post. We have written giving […]
As we have mentioned before, looking at an everyday toy or game and thinking of lots of different ways to use it in therapy is an important skill. I also like to show parents that you don’t need specialist equipment; you just need to think about what you are targeting. One of my latest finds […]
