Mumbling or unclear speech is something that we come across most frequently with school aged children. They normally have all the expected speech sounds, but when chatting are just harder to understand. Some may speak quietly, others may speak too quickly, but overall they are just mumbling! This reduced intelligibility can stop children participating in […]
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Several times over the past few weeks, I’ve been talking to parents about how they can use visual support to help their children’s communication. This is one of those things that speech and language therapists bang on about all the time (!) but I don’t know how much sense we make to other people sometimes. […]
It’s that time again – we are joining up with Jenna at Speech Room News with her Love it and List it Linky: Articulation apps. This was trickier as there aren’t as many speech/ articulation apps around. Speech Stickers I love this app and so do the children I work with. It is designed for single sound […]
A couple of weeks ago, Elizabeth shared a review of SpeakColorsHD. You can read her review here. I was lucky enough to be given a free copy of SpeechCards to review. I have been given nothing else for this review and these opinions are my own. SpeechCards is a great and very versatile little app. […]
Rebecca Bright from Therapy box very kindly contacted Helen and I and offered us two of their apps to review on our blog. This is a review of the minimal pairs app, and Helen will be reviewing the sort it out app in the next few weeks. Although Rebecca very kingly gave me a free […]
Many children have difficulty saying certain sounds clearly. Sometimes, it is a normal developmental stage and will improve on its own; at other times they may require some direct help from a Speech Therapist. Parents often ask what they can do at home to help. Eating Talking and eating use many of the same muscles, […]
One of the questions I often get asked is “my child can say a particular sound in sentences when I remind him, but he still doesn’t use it while he’s talking. Why?” There can be several reasons for this. First of all, he might not really hear or recognise his own errors when he’s talking, […]
