This post is in response to a question that someone asked. We had an email from someone on our mailing list who asked how they could encourage their child to imitate speech sounds. Here are some ideas. Start by copying them. Copy what your child does and the sounds that they make. This is something we […]
When teaching a speech sound in therapy, there are a number of things therapists do to help support the child. Equally, when you are helping a child generalise a sound into their speech at home or in the classroom, there are ways to help as well. Today I’m going to talk about cueing. Now […]
We have just published a set of 90 photo picture cards for the ‘g’ sound. We also have packs for the ‘c/k’, ‘s’ and ‘f’ sounds as well. ‘g’ is another sound that we work on frequently. This pack comes as a pdf download. Add it to your shopping cart, check out and pay, and […]
Mumbling or unclear speech is something that we come across most frequently with school aged children. They normally have all the expected speech sounds, but when chatting are just harder to understand. Some may speak quietly, others may speak too quickly, but overall they are just mumbling! This reduced intelligibility can stop children participating in […]
This is the first in a series of posts about how to teach specific speech sounds. Today we are going to start with the “c/k” and “g” sounds. These are probably the sounds that I work on most often! When should a child be able to say c/k and g? It is very normal for […]
Last week, Elizabeth started explaining how to help children who find the ‘th’ sound difficult. First of all, we need to work out exactly what the problem is, then the child needs to practise listening to the f and th sounds when you say them to make sure that they can consistently identify which one […]
The ‘th’ sound is one that speech therapists are asked about all the time; children saying fank you rather than thank you or calling thumbs, fumbs. ‘th’ is one of the last sounds to develop in English and it is still within normal limits for a 6 year old to say fumbs. This can be […]
We have just published a set of 90 photo picture cards for the “f” sound. This is a sound that we work on quite frequently – you say it by putting your top teeth on your bottom lip and some children find it difficult to get the hang of! This pdf download contains:- – 6 […]
We have just published a set of 108 photo picture cards for the “c/k” sound. You can find them here. We chose this sound as it is probably the one that we work on most often in therapy – some children find it tricky to get the hang of these sounds which are made with […]
This is part of a series of posts on phonological awareness (listening to sounds). This is a really important skill when working on speech sounds. You can read our other posts on auditory discrimination and rhyming. Today I’m going to focus on identifying the number of syllables in a word. Syllables are the parts […]
