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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Working speech and language targets into everyday routines: Shopp...
I know personally that food shopping is something I dread. It’s busy and I hate the way supermarkets move things around so you can’t find them! I also know that for many parents the idea of taking children with you is even worse! But, sometimes if you can involve your children in the activity you […]