It’s official, Instagram is my favourite social media platform. I love the visual aspect of it. I love social side. AND I secretly love the fact it all looks nice and organised into little squares (#typeASLP). To me, Instagram has been a revelation; I’ve loved connecting with Speech Therapists and teachers all over the world! […]
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“I know she wants to tell me something, but I just don’t know what she’s saying”, “He always gets upset when I can’t understand what he’s telling me”, “He’s just being lazy; he can say it when I remind him”. Have you ever said that to a colleague, or heard that said, about a child?
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I really loved using these fun, brightly coloured, patterned stamper pens when I was younger. My sisters and I would make fabulous pictures full of unusual patterns and bright colours using these! Inevitably we’d all fight over our favourite one (hello yellow star, I’m looking at you!) and our mum would insist that we all
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Usually we Speech and Language Therapists like love having things organised. We see so many different students throughout the day that it’s vital that we can find the things we need straight away, but sometimes it can feel like a real battle keeping everything organised throughout the year! Also, I don’t know about you, but as much as I
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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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As a Speech and Language Therapist, I spend most of my days assessing children with speech sound difficulties and providing therapy to address any speech sound errors. When I begin working with a child I initially work on sounds that they can already produce and then we progress to sounds that are more difficult. After
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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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As a kid I always loved playing with blocks and bricks. I would build structures for hours and really enjoyed playing with my siblings and friends with them too. Now as I’ve got older, the sets have become even more awesome and thanks to my amazing job, I get to use Duplo all the time!
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