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Squirrel Story and Peter and the Cat assessments – a review
I think every UK SLT has heard of Black Sheep Press. They are a staple of every clinic room! If you haven’t seen the fantastic resources they produce, go and check out their website here. Helen and I...
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Pizza, Pizza! game review
Helen and I have been given some great resources to review over the Easter Holidays – lucky us! Helen reviewed the fab Orchard Toys games – Frog party and Match and Spell earlier in the week. You...
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Narrative Therapy
What is narrative therapy? When we talk about ‘narrative’, we are referring to the ability to tell a story or series of events with precision and clarity. For younger children this will happen...
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Opinions – Having them and talking about them!
We have started a series of posts looking at high level language skills. As children get older, language and its demands become more sophisticated. It is often around Junior school age that these more...
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Games to improve auditory memory
Our auditory memory is our ability to retain and recall information we hear. It allows us to process and understand longer, more complex instructions, attend and listen and acquire new information....
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Narrative Therapy – Where
This is the third post in our series on narrative therapy. If you haven’t read the others you might want to go and have a quick look first! Read the introduction here and ideas for teaching who here....
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Minecraft in Speech Therapy?!
So, Minecraft!! Have you heard of it? Do your children constantly talk about it? Are you a bit confused by what all the fuss is about? If you aren’t interested in computer games and don’t have...
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Podcasts for speech and language therapists
As a travelling therapist, I spend a lot of time in my car, driving between appointments. This can get a bit frustrating sometimes and feels like a lot of time is wasted, when I could be writing...
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Narrative Therapy: What happened?!
So here is the next in our series on Narrative Therapy. If you haven’t seen the others it might be an idea to have a look first! You can read about the introduction, who/character, where and when....
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It’s raining cats and dogs! – Ideas for teaching idioms.
Well, in typical British bank holiday form, it is indeed raining cats and dogs today! But I thought I would grab the bull by the horns, put pen to paper and write this post. These are just some of the...
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Top 10 games for a travelling therapist
I work with children between the ages of 2 and 11 years old and we work on a range of targets. I may see an eleven year old and work on higher level language skills and inferencing, my next child may...
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Working on prediction skills
Helen recently wrote about working on inferencing skills. You can read her post here. Today I am going to write about prediction skills. You are likely to see inferencing and prediction skills spoken...
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Narrative – The whole story!
Helen and I have been writing a series of posts about using narrative therapy. If you haven’t read those yet I recommend that you go and have a look first. Today I am going to write about bringing...
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10 tips for using an iPad in therapy sessions.
The use of technology with children can be a little controversial. But love it or hate it, you can’t escape technology in one form or another nowadays. For most children, touchscreens are rather...
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Why speech therapists should use social media.
I think almost everyone knows what social media is these days! And if you don’t, then you’re unlikely to be reading this post!.. However, you may just be using social media for personal stuff and not...
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Writing targets and speech therapy programmes
One thing that we do quite a lot of as speech therapists in Britain is writing targets and programmes for school staff and/or parents to work on. I am fortunate enough to see most of my clients on a...
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What formal assessments don’t tell you.
I remember sitting in my university’s library, reading assessment manuals before clinical placements. We tried to work out which pictures went with which sentences and how to score them and which...
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Top 10 games to use as motivators
For me, a critical part of therapy is keeping it fun! For a child to learn and then generalise any new skill they need to practise, practise, practise. To help keep them motivated during the practise...
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How to use Dinosaurs in Speech Therapy!
Roar! I love dinosaurs and so do many of the children I work with! I was excited when they were included in the Key Stage 1 curriculum – what a great engaging topic! It never ceases to amaze me, the...
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5 things I wish I had known as an NQP
Helen recently found this article from the Dabbling Speechie. Felice wrote about 5 mistakes you make in your first year. So we thought we would continue this idea and think of the 5 things we wished...
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