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 […]
A while ago I wrote about encouraging children who aren’t using language at all to start using words. You can read that post here. But what about helping them to move on to the next stage – moving on from single words to putting phrases and sentences together? When children have around 50 single words […]
This topic came up twice last week, once with me as the patient at the dentist and again with a parent of a child I see – what should you ask and when. I would like to say that my dentist was brilliant, considering it was the first time we had met and I am […]
Many children with language problems struggle with learning new words. And it’s something that they are constantly expected to do in every school subject, as well as in everyday life – even many out of school activities will use words which may be confusing for a child who finds it hard to remember words. For […]
