Being able to listen to what is being said to you is an important pre-cursor to language. Like most skills, this is one that develops over the early years of life from babies who can only focus on one thing for a few seconds to a child of 6-7 who can switch their attention between […]
Today’s blog post is a review of an e-book written by Alex Trichilo. Alex is an Australian speech and language therapist and has a fantastic blog called The SpeeL which you should definitely check out. It’s full of great ideas and advice for parents, teachers and speech and language therapists and has some lovely handouts […]
A little while ago, Elizabeth posted an introduction to narrative therapy – what it is, why it’s important and some suggested resources to help work on these skills. You can read that post here. There, she talks specifically about the Black Sheep narrative packs. These packs use a particular framework for teaching narrative. Who? Where? […]
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 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 […]
Over the past few weeks, I have been into several schools/nurseries to observe children. It’s something speech and language therapists often do, especially at the assessment stage, but I can understand that it probably seems like a strange thing to spend a session doing, sitting and watching! So I thought today I’d write about what […]
This is the sixth and final part of our series on understanding your child’s speech and language therapy report. Check out parts one, two, three, four and five if you missed them. Today focusses on social skills (or pragmatic language). This is a huge area, so this will only be a very brief whistle-stop tour […]
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 […]
Today we are joining in with the Linky started by Jenna at Speech Room News. The question is about our top 5 resources for working on vocabulary. This is a great question as I spend a lot of time doing vocabulary work. So many children with receptive and expressive language problems of all ages have […]
