Anyone who reads our blog will know that we LOVE Orchard Toys games! You can guarantee that they will be durable, have great images that children love and as an added bonus can be used to meet Speech and Language Targets. The boot of my car has an entire storage box full of Orchard Toys […]
Today’s blog post is a review of an e-book written by Alex Trichilo. Alex is an Australian speech and language therapist and has a fantastic blog called The SpeeL which you should definitely check out. It’s full of great ideas and advice for parents, teachers and speech and language therapists and has some lovely handouts […]
So, Minecraft!! Have you heard of it? Do your children constantly talk about it? Are you a bit confused by what all the fuss is about? If you aren’t interested in computer games and don’t have people in your household who are, it might all seem a bit baffling. But I find it useful to […]
This is the third post in our series on narrative therapy. If you haven’t read the others you might want to go and have a quick look first! Read the introduction here and ideas for teaching who here. Helen did mention that the order you work through the questions may alter between younger and older […]
So, conjunctions… Technically a conjunction is an invariable grammatical particle, and it may or may not stand between the items it conjoins. (That takes me back to my linguistic lectures!!) You might call them conjunctions or connectives, but what we are talking about are those clever little words that link ideas and sentences together. Now […]
With Christmas only 31 days away (eek!), we thought we would start getting in the Christmas spirit with a Christmas toy review! Orchard Toys very kindly sent us a copy of their new game – Christmas Surprises to review. Although I was provided with a free copy of the game, the review and opinions are my own. […]
I love this time of year, except the getting dark really early bit! There are so many different things happening that prove to be great opportunities for discussion with children. We have just had Hallowe’en and Bonfire Night is only a few days away and then before you know it, Christmas will arrive! Then you […]
It was Helen who told me about Carrie Clark’s podcasts and website – Speech and Language Kids. I have just downloaded all the podcasts and have been listening to them whilst driving between appointments! The podcasts are FANTASTIC!! Go and listen to them. Even as an experienced therapist, Carrie has ideas that I hadn’t tried […]
Cars and trains are hugely popular toys! Many children love them, and for some, it can be difficult to get them to play with anything else if there is a car or train in sight! The clinic I used to work in had a train track in the waiting room. This was great, but sometimes […]
We write a lot of reviews of products and apps on this blog and share lots of exciting things we’ve found that are good for therapy. However, sometimes this can give the impression that you need to spend lots of money to support speech and language development and that’s really not true. You can use […]
