How’s your Christmas shopping going? Better than mine, I hope! I always refuse to think about it until December and then panic that I will never get it done in time!… Whatever is on your Christmas shopping list this year, I can pretty much guarantee that something you will end up with in the house […]
Helen and I LOVE the Orchard Toys games. I have so many of them I have lost count. It’s always great to see their new products and releases. One of their new games is called Can You Guess and involves acting out or making sounds for a range of different things or actions. I am really […]
Memory is a complex thing and has been the subject of lots of research. We all find some types of information easier to remember than others. Some people are great at remembering faces, others seem to have an almost inexhaustible capacity to remember dates. I’m sure most people reading this can identify things they find […]
I spent a few years working in a school with children with specific speech and language difficulties. When the summer holidays came round, parents often asked for homework to do over the summer. I think kids do enough formal work during the school year, and the last thing I want to do is give families […]
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 […]
With Easter just around the corner and some fantastic ideas out there, we thought we would have an Easter therapy ideas round up this week! Colour matching eggs I found this idea via pinterest from pink and green mama. A simple idea that can target both comprehension and expression of colours and at a simpler […]
A couple of months ago, this game caught my eye in the Early Learning Centre, and I thought it looked good for language work. I managed to get it cheaply with multiple half-term offers, and most of the kids I work with (and my own daughter) love it so I thought I’d tell you all […]
We’ve talked before about our love of Orchard Toys, here and here. They are good, sturdy games which look great , last well around enthusiastic children who like to test pieces out in their mouths (!) and are great fun too. A couple of weeks ago, Elizabeth posted about the Pig in Pants game. You […]
Play is a really important skill that children need to learn and practise. It helps with language and vocabulary development, sequencing, creative thinking, attention and listening skills, social skills, turn taking – I could go on! You can help your child’s play develop, whatever their age. You don’t need hundreds of expensive toys; you just […]
Happy Easter weekend everyone! Most schools here only finished yesterday for the holidays, so Easter seems to have come around very suddenly this year and I found myself last minute shopping for Easter eggs yesterday morning! As I looked at all the shelves and the different sizes and colours of eggs, I realised how much […]
