Verbal routines are a great language facilitation strategy to introduce in your parent-coaching sessions. They can be a powerful way to support young children to communicate and participate in activities. So it is really beneficial to coach parents and caregivers in how (and why!) to use verbal routines at home. What are Verbal Routines? Verbal […]
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Communication Temptations are a great strategy to use to support early language skills. It is one of the main strategies that I coach parents/caregivers to use to support their child’s language skills. This post explains why and how you can use communication temptations in your parent-coaching/early intervention sessions too. What are Communication Temptations? Communication Temptations is a
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Dear SLPs and Teachers, you are not alone if you are feeling stressed, overwhelmed, or “burned out” at work currently. With ever-increasing class/caseload sizes, workloads, and to-do lists; it’s no surprise that you are feeling this way. I want to share why and how you can incorporate self-care into your daily or weekly routine, as
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Why Use Songs for Early Language? Using songs in your sessions is an easy way to embed early language strategies. Strategies such as emphasising, repetition, and linguistic mapping are all reinforced with the nature of the songs. Singing them regularly and in the same situations means that they become verbal routines too, which supports language
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I’m sure we all have those days… the days where we haven’t had time to plan for therapy and we have a child (or group) working on speech sounds due any minute. We start frantically searching for some worksheets or games that we can use to fill the session while we practice our sounds. Well,
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I really enjoy celebrating Easter and Spring in my Speech and Language Therapy sessions! I often find that kids get quite excited about Easter and I think there’s something so lovely about the turn of a season! I wanted to share a few of my favourite activities and games which I do in my Speech
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