Books are a must-have resource in any therapy session. Whether you’re working with language delayed toddlers or preschoolers, or with school-aged children; including books in your speech therapy session is always beneficial because you can target so many goals. If you have had to make the sudden move to delivering therapy/teaching via Teletherapy during this …
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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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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 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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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, …
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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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 …
