Understanding two key wo...
The language of following instructions can be very confusing for young children. As Elizabeth explained in this post, when you give an instruction, very often a child does not actually need to understand all the words to follow it. In fact, sometimes they don’t really need to understand the words at all – they can […]
Sequenc...
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 […]
Mumbl...
Mumbling or unclear speech is something that we come across most frequently with school aged children. They normally have all the expected speech sounds, but when chatting are just harder to understand. Some may speak quietly, others may speak too quickly, but overall they are just mumbling! This reduced intelligibility can stop children participating in […]
Dumm...
Dummies or pacifiers! – Whatever you call them, this is a subject that often comes up for speech therapists working with younger children. Are they a problem? Will they affect speech development? When and how can you get rid of them? So today I am going to try and answer some of these questions. This […]
Understanding 1 key w...
We have written before about key words or information carrying words. You can read that post here. We talk about key words when we describe a younger child’s understanding of words. When we talk, ask questions and give instructions, there are usually clues around us that help children understand. So even if they aren’t sure of […]
Teaching f vs th par...
Last week, Elizabeth started explaining how to help children who find the ‘th’ sound difficult. First of all, we need to work out exactly what the problem is, then the child needs to practise listening to the f and th sounds when you say them to make sure that they can consistently identify which one […]