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 […]
Helen recently found this article from the Dabbling Speechie. Felice wrote about 5 mistakes you make in your first year. So we thought we would continue this idea and think of the 5 things we wished we had known when starting work as a speech and language therapist. We both started work for the NHS. […]
The use of technology with children can be a little controversial. But love it or hate it, you can’t escape technology in one form or another nowadays. For most children, touchscreens are rather captivating. It does amuse me when you see a toddler walk up to a TV screen and prod and poke it, then […]
Our auditory memory is our ability to retain and recall information we hear. It allows us to process and understand longer, more complex instructions, attend and listen and acquire new information. Children with reduced auditory memory can find it very challenging to follow instructions and retain learning. Helen wrote about memory and strategies to support auditory […]
Exams are a reality for every child going through education. Things have changed a lot in recent years and a lot is done through teacher assessment and coursework, but sooner or later, everyone has to pass an exam. This is a stressful situation for any student, but a child with a language difficulty has even […]
Many children I work with are very confident communicators even though their speech is not clear or they struggle to get across what they want to say. This is great to see and helps to reduce their frustration. For some children however, the speech or language problem has a real knock-on impact on their confidence […]
Recently, I have been given quite a few reports about children on my caseload which have been written by other professionals – Occupational Therapists, Educational Psychologists and Specialist Dyslexia Teachers for example. It’s always really useful to read these to get a better picture of a child and incorporate ideas and suggestions into my own […]
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 […]
We have put quite a few app reviews on this blog, and many of them are really great apps which I love. If you have an iPad which you ever use in therapy, make sure you read this review as we both absolutely love this app! Elizabeth and I were lucky enough to be contacted […]
I had a real life experience of vocabulary learning this week. We have been musing for a while on the idea of changing this little blog into a self-hosted blog to give us the opportunity to do more with it. I may have lost some of you already?…. Having decided that now was the time […]
