In this week’s blog we thought we would talk a little about our jobs. We both feel privileged to work with children and their families and hopefully help and give useful guidance. But the job entails much more than the face to face time spent with the children and as with any job there are […]
On looking back over our first year of blogging, we’ve been looking over our 58 posts. It’s interesting to see which posts we enjoyed writing the most, and which ones have had the most views (not necessarily the same ones). We thought, since we share this blog, that it would be interesting for us to […]
I have attended the TES show for years now and love going. A group of us travel up together and make a day of it. I’m very lucky that this year my friend, who is a specialist teacher, came with me. I love looking at resources with her, as I look at them with SLT […]
This is the 5th part in our series about understanding your child’s speech and language therapy report. If you have missed them, there is an overview, a post about attention and listening, one about comprehension and one about expression. This post is going to look at speech sounds sometimes called phonology or articulation. This section of the […]
I love being able to work regularly with the children on my caseload, see good results and help parents make a difference. One thing that can really help us as therapists and also help your child progress is ‘homework’. Yes, practising at home! Now, I’m a realist and know firsthand how hard it can be […]
Are you listening….. Then I’ll begin – by Elizabeth Last week Helen started writing about the terminology we use when writing reports. Although we all try hard to explain ourselves as clearly as we can, we still have to use a certain amount of technical vocabulary, and things that make perfect sense to us may […]
Verbs are the words that tell us what people are doing. These words are important for younger children, particularly when they are starting to link words together. A good range of verbs is also important for older children to help with literacy in school. Here are some ideas to help develop verbs. For younger children:- […]
I initially came across the idea of speech and language therapy as a career through my university careers office as I was coming to the end of my degree in English. It wasn’t a profession I knew much about, and, as I read, I became more and more excited about the idea of it, as […]
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 […]
