Books are great, aren’t they? I love that you can target a range of different goals with books. And really love that you can coach parents and caregivers to use language facilitation strategies while reading books too. In this post you’ll learn about 5 awesome books for teaching body parts vocabulary in Speech and Language …
Children with language difficulties need specific support in developing their language skills. In this post you’ll learn about 3 engaging activities for teaching verbs in your early intervention Speech Therapy sessions. Why is it important to teach verbs? As therapists, we know that verbs are a crucial part of language development. Children’s early vocabulary is …
It’s fair to say that I love no prep materials; with a busy caseload and busy home life, I can’t seem to find the time to prep materials like I used to. Plus, there is just something so convenient about printing and using a resource straight-away, without having to cut or laminate anything, right? Well, …
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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 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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