I am lucky that I get to work regularly with my clients and their families and schools, so have the advantage that I get to know them well. But the first time I meet a child and am making my assessment, there is some really important information I need from the people that know them […]
We all know how useful and important books are for children’s learning. Helen wrote this post about using books to develop language skills. One of my favourite books to use with younger children is ‘Dear Zoo’ by Rod Campbell. It is a simple lift the flap book, but you can use it to target lots […]
Helen had a fantastic idea for a new series of posts. We all know how busy life gets and although we all have the best intentions of helping with home work or practising targets, it can be really hard to find the time, get everything ready, for your child to be in the right mood […]
Well we are half way through December, although I’m not sure how that happened! We are at that tricky time when as an adult I am now where near prepared for Christmas day, but all the children are over excited and completely ready for the school holidays to start. So what do you do, when […]
Object function – that is a real speech therapy term! What I mean is linking a verb to an object e.g. what do we cut with? – scissors, what do we sleep on? – a bed. So we are linking a function or verb to an item. This is an important step in language development […]
What tools do you really need when you are working as a speech and language therapist? We have written before about resources, games and assessment, but what are the other go-to things we use day in and day out? These are the bits you find out about along the way, and that I find myself […]
Nobody wants to keep doing something they know they struggle with. Children are no different. Therapy and practise can take a while and we really need to keep the child motivated. It is important to keep sessions positive and fun. So when you are planning your sessions or thinking about how to help a child, remember to […]
Helen and I have been very busy creating our first online training course and it is now available! We are really pleased with it. From our work with nursery/ school staff and parents we know there are many people out there who are looking for training, especially to help children with unclear speech. We decided […]
Last week Helen wrote about some of the funny things that can happen when you are a speech therapist. You can read that post here. Whilst we were discussing last week’s post we also thought about some of the other ways our job impacts us as people. Now, I just want to make it […]
Urgh! I have spent quite a few hours this weekend writing reports to be submitted as part of the EHCP process. I know this is a relatively new system, but I have been writing this type of report for over a decade now. I do know what I am doing! So why did I find […]
