This post is in response to a question that someone asked. We had an email from someone on our mailing list who asked how they could encourage their child to imitate speech sounds. Here are some ideas. Start by copying them. Copy what your child does and the sounds that they make. This is something we […]
When teaching a speech sound in therapy, there are a number of things therapists do to help support the child. Equally, when you are helping a child generalise a sound into their speech at home or in the classroom, there are ways to help as well. Today I’m going to talk about cueing. Now […]
I often get asked about children who have learnt how to say a new sound, but don’t use it when they are talking. This can seem frustrating, but actually this is a huge step. There are a couple of reasons why this can happen. Firstly, he might not really hear or recognise his own errors […]
We have just published a set of 90 photo picture cards for the ‘g’ sound. We also have packs for the ‘c/k’, ‘s’ and ‘f’ sounds as well. ‘g’ is another sound that we work on frequently. This pack comes as a pdf download. Add it to your shopping cart, check out and pay, and […]
This is the fourth in our series of posts about teaching sounds. You can read the post about teaching the “k” sound here and the “f” sound here. A few weeks ago, Helen wrote about the “s” sound. As Helen explained, there are more common errors we hear with the “s” sound, but there are also […]
Does your child find the “s” sound hard? This is the third in our series of posts about making specific speech sounds. You can read the post about teaching the “k” sound here and the post about teaching the “f” sound here. When should a child be able to say the “s” and “z” sounds? […]
Does your child find the “f” sound hard? Now let’s be clear, we are talking about the sound ‘ffff’ not any rude words! This is the second in our series of posts about making specific speech sounds. You can read the first post about teaching the “k” sound here. When should a child be able […]
This is the first in a series of posts about how to teach specific speech sounds. Today we are going to start with the “c/k” and “g” sounds. These are probably the sounds that I work on most often! When should a child be able to say c/k and g? It is very normal for […]
Last week, Elizabeth started explaining how to help children who find the ‘th’ sound difficult. First of all, we need to work out exactly what the problem is, then the child needs to practise listening to the f and th sounds when you say them to make sure that they can consistently identify which one […]
The ‘th’ sound is one that speech therapists are asked about all the time; children saying fank you rather than thank you or calling thumbs, fumbs. ‘th’ is one of the last sounds to develop in English and it is still within normal limits for a 6 year old to say fumbs. This can be […]
