Today is DLD Awareness day. I’m sure there will be people reading this who don’t know what DLD is, and that’s why we need an awareness day! It stands for Developmental Language Disorder, and it is when children have a specific difficulty with language processing, which affects their understanding of what is said to them […]
Is your school taking part in No Pens Day Wednesday on 4th October? In case you haven’t heard of this, it is an initiative started by The Communication Trust which does just what it says on the tin – a whole day of teaching when no-one picks up a pen! This year will be the […]
We have written several posts about encouraging children to say their first words and begin linking them together. For example, Help! My toddler isn’t talking, Top Tips for putting words together and Top Tips for verbs. However, some children get a bit stuck at this stage. They may have quite a varied vocabulary and be […]
Adjectives are really important words in a sentence. For example, think about these three sentences: The man took a walk through the forest. The old man took a long walk through the dark forest. The elderly man took a meandering walk through the gloomy forest. The first sentence makes sense but the adjectives (describing words) […]
A few weeks ago, Elizabeth posted about different ways that speech therapists use cueing to help children with speech sound difficulties. We can also use cues to support children with comprehension and expressive language difficulties as well. We thought it would be useful to share some of these here too. As I planned this post, […]
We started a series of posts a while ago on encouraging your toddler to talk. You can read the first two posts here and here. In the last post, I talked about trying to reduce the number of questions that you ask and commenting on what your child does instead. How long should these comments […]
I love this time of year, except the getting dark really early bit! There are so many different things happening that prove to be great opportunities for discussion with children. We have just had Hallowe’en and Bonfire Night is only a few days away and then before you know it, Christmas will arrive! Then you […]
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 […]
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 […]
My husband is a librarian – we have a lot of books at home! I also love books, and our daughter seems to be developing a love for them too! I don’t think it will be news to anyone reading this that books are a great tool for developing language skills or that reading with […]
