How to use “My Play Home” in ther...
I first discovered the app My Play Home when I was looking for apps for my daughter. She adores this app and plays it all the time! As I watched her playing it though, I realised that it has all sorts of possibilities for speech therapy. My Play Home is essentially a doll’s house on […]
Teaching the function of an obj...
Object function – that is a real speech therapy term! What I mean is linking a verb to an object e.g. what do we cut with? – scissors, what do we sleep on? – a bed. So we are linking a function or verb to an item. This is an important step in language development […]
7 games to encourage listening in a gr...
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 […]
Top 10 useful tools for a speech therapi...
What tools do you really need when you are working as a speech and language therapist? We have written before about resources, games and assessment, but what are the other go-to things we use day in and day out? These are the bits you find out about along the way, and that I find myself […]
Using stacking robots in ther...
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, […]
k photo ca...
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 […]
How to use nerf guns in speech thera...
Love them or hate them, a number of young boys (and girls) LOVE nerf guns. I know my young man does! I understand that some families don’t allow toy guns or nerf guns and if so this post won’t be for you. However, if you have some foam/dart/nerf guns, here are some ideas about using them in […]
Top tips for building rapport with child...
When I was a newly qualified therapist, there was so much to think about whenever I assessed a child – which assessment to use, transcribing speech correctly, asking the right questions in the case history, making the right decision about what to do next!… But there is one aspect of doing an assessment which is […]
Tips for setting up in independent pract...
Both Helen and I started our careers in the NHS before moving to independent practise. It was after finishing my maternity leave, that I started to work independently as well. Although being in charge of the money aspect was always a little worrying, the flexibility that it offers a working parent is great. You can read more […]
How to teach negati...
Negatives are a really important thing to understand and always a high priority for me to target if a child is struggling with them. If you don’t know that there’s a difference between “push” and “don’t push” you can immediately see that it can lead to all sorts of problems! The first thing to do […]
