Negatives are a really important thing to understand and always a high priority for me to target if a child is struggling with them. If you don’t know that there’s a difference between “push” and “don’t push” you can immediately see that it can lead to all sorts of problems! The first thing to do […]
We were recently approached by Pentagon Play about hosting a guest post. We have written a number of posts about the importance of play and getting outside to help language development. Pentagon Play make some beautiful children’s play equipment and also have an interesting blog. We liked Sam’s post about adapting the playground to help […]
We have written about working your speech and language targets into normal, day to day activities before. You can read our tips for bath time, trips to the park and trips to the beach. So today, I am going to talk about working your targets into meal times. Now, if meal times are really hectic […]
Adjectives are really important words in a sentence. For example, think about these three sentences: The man took a walk through the forest. The old man took a long walk through the dark forest. The elderly man took a meandering walk through the gloomy forest. The first sentence makes sense but the adjectives (describing words) […]
The last week has been a bit of a blur, as I was organising my daughter’s birthday party which was on Saturday! Maybe there are people out there who can manage to do this without it taking over your whole week?! If so, hats off from me! There always seems to be so much to […]
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 […]
This is the next in our series of posts about narrative therapy. You can see the introduction, Part 1 – Who/character and Part 2 – Where/setting by clicking on the links. Today we are talking about the “when” or time of stories. Talking about the time in a story is important as part of setting […]
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 […]
We all struggle to talk about how we feel. It’s complicated and often difficult to find the words that most clearly express what we want to say. This is even more difficult for children, and especially children with language difficulties. There are so many words to describe feelings and they often have subtly different meanings […]
One of the parts of my job that I really enjoy is working with a range of different people, in different settings and of different professions. I truly believe that multidisciplinary working is the way forward for both children and professionals. I was talking through a programme with a particularly fantastic TA in one of […]
