Making therapy f...
Nobody wants to keep doing something they know they struggle with. Children are no different. Therapy and practise can take a while and we really need to keep the child motivated. It is important to keep sessions positive and fun. So when you are planning your sessions or thinking about how to help a child, remember to […]
Supporting children with unclear speech train...
Helen and I have been very busy creating our first online training course and it is now available! We are really pleased with it. From our work with nursery/ school staff and parents we know there are many people out there who are looking for training, especially to help children with unclear speech. We decided […]
Working together with other therapi...
In today’s blog post we’re welcoming a guest contributor, Gemma Moore. Gemma works for the NHS in Portsmouth and is a specialist in hearing impairment. Gemma and I have written this post together. There are various reasons why more than one therapist may end up working with a child. We’re not going to go into […]
Irregular past tense verbs – Ideas on how to teach t...
Before Christmas, Helen wrote a post about teaching children to use the regular past tense. Once the child has mastered this, the next fun step is all the irregular verbs! As with nearly all grammatical rules in English there are always exceptions. We didn’t ‘blowed’ out the candles on the birthday cake yesterday we didn’t ‘sleeped’ and […]
Tips for talking to children with language difficulties about their school ...
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 […]
20 stocking fillers for speech and langua...
Have you finished your Christmas shopping yet? If not, this post may be for you! I often get asked for Christmas present ideas of things which will help support speech and language skills. So here are 20 ideas of stocking fillers. I’ve tried to keep them both small and fairly inexpensive. Most of them are […]
Why and how to talk to your b...
We talk a lot here about how to communicate with toddlers, preschoolers and school-age children to help develop their language skills. However, the building blocks of language start developing right from the earliest days of a child’s life. Children understand language before they can use it, and even though most children are not saying words […]
Big or little? Ideas for teaching size conce...
We have written posts about teaching other early concepts – colour and prepositions. But today we are going to think about the early size concepts of big and little. Just before I start, there are a couple of points I want to run through. Firstly, there is the choice of words. Speech Therapists all tend […]