I often get asked about children who have learnt how to say a new sound, but don’t use it when they are talking. This can seem frustrating, but actually this is a huge step. There are a couple of reasons why this can happen. Firstly, he might not really hear or recognise his own errors […]
Many of the children I work with (especially those at junior and secondary age) have word-finding difficulties. It’s a term you often see written in speech therapy reports. But what exactly does this mean and how can you help? What is a word-finding difficulty? Basically, a word-finding difficulty is exactly what it sounds like – […]
This is the third in a series of posts with quick and hopefully simple ideas for you to try this weekend. Life can be busy and it can be so difficult to fit in practising your child’s speech and language targets in the middle of everything else. So the aim of these posts is to […]
Taking turns is something that all young (and some not so young!) children find difficult. It can be particularly challenging for children with language difficulties. Language delay can often mean that social interaction is a little delayed as well. Turn-taking is something I often suggest for nursery staff to work on with a preschool child. […]
Words such as long and short seem very simple, but actually they can be difficult for children to understand. This is because they are quite abstract words – the concept of “long” depends on what else is around it. So, a ruler might seem long if you compare it to a rubber and a pencil, […]
This is the next in our series of posts about how to teach specific speech sounds. We already have posts about how to teach “f”, how to teach “s” and “how to teach “k”. This post is about the “g” sound. Along with “k”, this is one of the sounds I work on most frequently. […]
Back in 2014, Elizabeth wrote a post about helping a child to understand the prepositions in, on and under. (I can’t believe it was that long ago!!) You can find that post here. Once your child is able to understand and use these in sentences, you may want to move on to other position words. […]
A rather belated happy new year to you all! I can’t believe it January 8th already! At this time of year, people tend to look back over the last year and forward to the next one. Here at Speech Blog UK headquarters (ie Elizabeth’s lounge!) we tend to do the same. It’s always interesting to […]
This week’s post is a guest post by my husband! Andrew got hearing aids for the first time in December 2015. Today he is going to share with us some of his experiences of the whole process. He uses a behind the ear hearing aid – Oticon Spirit Zest. Although he is an adult, and […]
Does your child find the “s” sound hard? This is the third in our series of posts about making specific speech sounds. You can read the post about teaching the “k” sound here and the post about teaching the “f” sound here. When should a child be able to say the “s” and “z” sounds? […]
