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 […]
We started a series of posts a while ago on encouraging your toddler to talk. You can read the first three posts here, here and here. I have talked about usual language development, what to expect at your speech therapy assessment and some strategies to help your child, such as reducing the number of questions […]
I speak to many parents of younger child who are worried about when those ‘first words’ will come. We are often asked when a child should start to talk and how many words they should have by what age. But it is really important to remember that communicating is much more than words. So before […]
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 […]
One of the things I most commonly get asked about is toddlers who are slow to start talking. I have written about this before, but I felt like there was quite a bit more to say on the topic, so I thought I’d tackle it again. How many words should my child be using? Just […]
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 […]
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 […]
It often surprises people that I am a huge advocate of signing with children. People often think that, since speech therapists are trying to encourage children to talk, we think baby signing and similar approaches will hold back verbal language. Actually, nothing could be further from the truth! Of course, children with hearing difficulties may […]
One thing that SLT’s become good at is looking at everyday children’s games and toys and thinking of multiple ingenious ways of using them! Everything you have in your therapy cupboard / bag needs to be fun and useful in a number of ways. In fact I love showing other SLT’s new resources and seeing […]
I love telling people what I do for a living, as it can start off some really interesting conversations. The initial comments are usually fairly predictable (usually, “I’d better talk properly then” or “do you see people who stammer then?”). However as the conversation progresses, many people are surprised when they find out what I […]
