We talk a lot about using visual strategies to support language skills. We have talked about other visual strategies in the past – see this post about why visuals help, this post about signing, a handout on the freebies page, and this post about visual timetables. Today, I’m going to talk about social stories. This is […]
As speech and language therapists, we work with a wide range of children, of different ages and with different needs. Some children love every game that you offer them, happily join in with most activities and are easy to keep focussed. Others take a little more creativity and get bored more easily! Some children (particularly, […]
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 […]
Elizabeth and I were fortunate enough to be sent some more games by Orchard Toys to review. We love these games and you can see our previous reviews of Pigs in Pants, Slug in a Jug and Dominoes here. I travel around to all my clients, so my resources tend to get a little battered […]
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 […]
