Being able to listen to what is being said to you is an important pre-cursor to language. Like most skills, this is one that develops over the early years of life from babies who can only focus on one thing for a few seconds to a child of 6-7 who can switch their attention between […]
Sequencing is one of the things I most commonly set targets on. It’s also one of the speech therapy words that we use that I think makes the least sense to people! Therefore, sequencing is the topic of today’s post! What is sequencing? Sequencing refers to the order of things. With children with speech sound […]
This is an issue that has come up for me a couple of times this week. I work with a couple of children who have comprehension difficulties but are making good progress and can now follow simple instructions in school as long as they are given 1:1. However, they struggle when instructions are given to […]
Today I’m going to talk about one of my favourite toys. I bought my first set of these about 5 years’ ago (they recently had to be replaced) and I’ve also bought them as birthday presents for quite a few birthday parties that my daughter has been invited to! Some toys or games I buy, […]
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 […]
Our latest column for Special Needs Jungle was published yesterday, and it’s a topic I think will interest a lot of people. Do your children tell you about what has happened at school? Most don’t really. It can be even more challenging to get any information if your child has language difficulties. There are some […]
You often find that children will develop expressive language to the point where they can produce short sentences e.g. The man is running, the lady is brushing her teeth. However they find it harder to develop longer, more complex sentences and vocabulary. They often need these areas to be specifically taught. As early as year […]
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 […]
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 […]
It’s the summer holidays, we’ve had a bit of sunshine and the kids want to play outside. Sometimes, with speech and language work, it’s easy to give the impression that children need to be indoors, sitting still and doing something paper-based. This is not true! There are so many ways to incorporate speech and language […]
