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12th March 2021

Speech Sound Glossary

By Charlotte
Education / Parents / Speech and Language Therapy
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Maybe you have just attended your child’s first Speech and Language therapy session or read their first report, you knew that their sounds were not developing quite right but now you are leaving that appointment or finishing reading that report and you feel confused. You don’t understand what th

5th March 2021

Speech and Language Therapy Terms Explained

By Charlotte
Education / Parents / Speech and Language Therapy
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ACE 6-11 (Assessment of Comprehension and Expression 6-11)- An assessment used to look at a child’s understanding and sentences. It gives us an idea of where a child’s language abilities are compared with other children their age. Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC)- A range

26th February 2021

Speech and Language Hierarchy

By Charlotte
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When you first become concerned about your child’s speech and language, you are often concerned about a particular area. This could be anything from attention to speech. Whatever your concern, it is important for your concern to be listened to and understood by the Speech and Language Therapist. B

17th November 2020

5 Top Tips for NQPs

By Charlotte
NQPs / SLTs / Speech and Language Therapy
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So, all the hard work can finally be put into practice! Everything you’ve learned at University, you can now have a go at in real life…it can be a bit nerve racking at first, so here are our top tips for Newly Qualified Paediatric Speech and Language Therapists who are ready to start the

11th September 2020

Resource ideas

By Charlotte
Education / Parents / Speech and Language Therapy
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We have been putting different activities on Twitter (@ChatterboxesSLT) for different resources. Here they all are in one place! Give them a go and remember, these activities can be done at any time, with any age and any ability. Teddies: try to find a range of sizes of teddies/dollies/action figure

21st May 2020

Lockdown activity ideas

These have been crazy times in lockdown. We have been putting some activity ideas on Twitter (@ChatterboxesSLT) since the start of all this… here they all are in one place! Give them a go and remember, these activities can be done at any time – not just in lockdown! Role play a kitchen café –

9th April 2020

Building language into your everyday routine

By Charlotte
Education / Parents / Speech and Language Therapy
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We are all busy. There is loads going on and loads to do, especially with children around as well! Developing your child’s language does not have to involve finding time within the routine and sitting down at a table to ‘work’ on it. The best way of developing your children’s communication s

4th April 2018

10 tips for being an organised SLT

By Charlotte
Education / Health / Speech and Language Therapy
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Being organised is key to working as a Speech and Language Therapist. The caseloads are high and you often go to different settings every day. Here are my top 10 tips for keeping on top of it all. 1) LISTS! I love a list. I would recommend having a list for everything! Keep a client [&hell

1st March 2018

Stop questioning, start commenting!

As adults, and especially teachers, we use a lot of questions! “What’s this?” “What colour is it?” “What are you doing?” “Where are you going?” “What is he doing?” The list goes on. How much of an interrogator are you? Try to monitor how many questions you are using when talkin

31st January 2018

How can I use a Visual Timetable in my Classroom?

People are always recommending to use a visual timetable in the classroom, but how do you use it? Where can you get one from? Visual timetables will help all the children within the classroom, even the higher ability ones. Think about when you are at a train station…. You know that you are on the