Parent-Coaching

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5 Brilliant Alternatives to Common Toys for Early Intervention

Have you ever worked with a family that doesn’t have many common toys at home? Well, rather than taking toys or having families feel like they need to buy them, try these brilliant alternatives to common toys; they’re perfect for your early intervention sessions. The problem with taking toys We know that coaching parents/caregivers to […]

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6 Skills You Can Target Using ‘That’s Not My’ Books

I’m a huge fan of the ‘That’s Not My’ series from Usborne Books (written by Fiona Watt and illustrated by Rachel Wells). They’re great books to use to support early communication skills with your little ones. Here are ideas for 6 skills you can target using ‘That’s Not My’ books in your early intervention sessions.   1-

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Why & How to use Verbal Routines in Parent-Coaching

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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3 Tips for Building Strong Working Relationships in Parent-Coaching Sessions.

Have you ever worked with a family that you just don’t “gel” with? The one where the sessions feel awkward and a bit stilted? Yeah, me too.  It’s not your fault; we’ve all been there. And honestly? You won’t “click” with every single family that you work with, but it’s important not to take that personally. 

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5 Ways to Use Pumpkins to Support Early Language Skills

It’s that time of year again, and pumpkins are all around us! Pumpkins are a fantastic thing to use in your therapy sessions to support and develop early language skills with your little ones! Here are 5 easy and fun ways you can use pumpkins in your Speech and Language Therapy sessions to support early language skills,

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Why and How to use Communication Temptations to Support Early Language Skills

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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5 Ways to Use Toy Cars to Support Early Language

Toy cars are perfect toys to use to support early language skills with your late talkers, or preschoolers with language delays. You can target so many goals and use a range of language strategies with them during your therapy sessions and play-based therapy activities. I’m going to share 5 ways you can use toy cars

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Using Songs to Support Early Language- Includes a freebie

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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‘What’s in the Bag?’- A Fun Activity for Language Development

One of my favourite activities to use in play-based therapy is a “What’s in the Bag?” activity. My “feely bag” is full of toys and everyday objects which can all be used to elicit language from young children. Over the years I have found the “What’s in the bag?” activity to be a fun and

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Using Blocks to Support Speech and Language Skills

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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