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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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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Do you have a favourite reference book? – Strange question, I know. But, I like having (and think it is important to have) reference books to guide my clinical practice. It helps me know that I am delivering effective, evidence-based interventions with my late talkers. But, with so many books to choose from, it can
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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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I am extremely passionate about early intervention, and in late summer 2019 I came to the realisation that we Early Intervention SLPs needed our own event! We needed something that celebrates the love we all have for this area of Speech Therapy! So, I gathered together 7 of my early intervention SLP friends and started #TheBigEIEvent.
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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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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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“He disturbs others while I’m talking!”, “She never listens!”, “He always does things wrong… but he can do it when I show him!” Do those statements remind you of a child in your class?? In the UK, it is estimated that around 10% of school age children have some form of Speech, Language and Communication
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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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