Happy New Year! Whatever you thought of 2016, it is now over. At this time of year, Helen and I like to look over our most popular posts. Interestingly there are some posts that remain popular every year, but there are some new ones in our Top 10 as well. What speech sounds should my […]
Last week Helen wrote about some of the funny things that can happen when you are a speech therapist. You can read that post here. Whilst we were discussing last week’s post we also thought about some of the other ways our job impacts us as people. Now, I just want to make it […]
I remember sitting in my university’s library, reading assessment manuals before clinical placements. We tried to work out which pictures went with which sentences and how to score them and which assessment was best for the area you needed to assess. We spent ages working through them all! Once I had qualified and started working, […]
We have written about working your speech and language targets into normal, day to day activities before. You can read our tips for bath time, trips to the park and trips to the beach. So today, I am going to talk about working your targets into meal times. Now, if meal times are really hectic […]
We just wanted to let you all know that we have exciting plans for the website over the next year! We can’t tell you everything right now as it’s not all finalized, but we wanted to let you know that we are half-way through our first e-book and we are very excited about it! We […]
If your child is receiving therapy, or you have been practising something at home, how do you know if it’s working? It can be hard when you are with your child every day to notice the small changes that happen and it can feel really disheartening if you think nothing is changing. So here are some ideas […]
So, your child has been referred to speech and language therapy, and they have finally reached the top of the waiting list. Hurrah! What happens next? You will very likely receive an assessment appointment. Some departments have other ways of doing their initial contact, either through some sort of parent information session, or through a […]
So here is the next in our series on Narrative Therapy. If you haven’t seen the others it might be an idea to have a look first! You can read about the introduction, who/character, where and when. Then today I am going to concentrate on what happened. This is main part of the story. You […]
So, Minecraft!! Have you heard of it? Do your children constantly talk about it? Are you a bit confused by what all the fuss is about? If you aren’t interested in computer games and don’t have people in your household who are, it might all seem a bit baffling. But I find it useful to […]
The summer holidays have already arrived for some, and for others are only a day or so away – HOORAY! One thing many parents have asked me this week is how can we keep working on speech and language skills over the 6 week break? So we thought we would continue with our series – […]
