This is the next part of our series on narrative therapy. If you missed the other parts, you can find them here – Introduction, who, where, when, what happened and emotions and dialogue. Today, I’m going to talk about the end of the story. I’ve always found that children with language difficulties find this bit […]
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Teaching emotion wo...
We all struggle to talk about how we feel. It’s complicated and often difficult to find the words that most clearly express what we want to say. This is even more difficult for children, and especially children with language difficulties. There are so many words to describe feelings and they often have subtly different meanings […]
How to support a child… at break ti...
The classroom can be a confusing place for a child with language difficulties. However, sometimes the playground can be even more confusing. Many children who have speech and language difficulties (though by no means all) also have difficulties with social interaction. The lack of structure at break times especially, can be a real challenge […]
Taking the mystery out of assessments: ...
I’m very busy at the moment writing annual review reports and hopefully explaining what all my assessments mean. So we thought it would be helpful to talk about the assessments we use and what the children have to do. In the UK, there are a few, main standardised assessments that Speech Therapists use. Particularly once […]
Using cueing to support children’s langu...
A few weeks ago, Elizabeth posted about different ways that speech therapists use cueing to help children with speech sound difficulties. We can also use cues to support children with comprehension and expressive language difficulties as well. We thought it would be useful to share some of these here too. As I planned this post, […]
7 tips to encourage confident communicati...
Many children I work with are very confident communicators even though their speech is not clear or they struggle to get across what they want to say. This is great to see and helps to reduce their frustration. For some children however, the speech or language problem has a real knock-on impact on their confidence […]
What’s in your Early Intervention bag? li...
We’re taking a little break from Christmassy posts this week – partly because I’m sure, like me, you all have Christmas overload, and partly because I spotted this linky from Kristin Cummings and thought it would be nice to join in as it’s a really useful topic – what’s in your Early Intervention therapy bag? […]