If you were looking for permission to be really silly - here it is. Doing the unexpected is a wonderful way to spark your child's interest, get the...

When a Speech and Language Therapist talks about 'speech', they mean the sounds that words are made up of (not the words themselves). A child with...

Many of your little ones may have already developed a special interest. A special interest is just something that they love and are drawn to. For A...

When a Speech and Language Therapist talks about 'speech', they mean the sounds that words are made up of (not the words themselves). A child with...

Language is everywhere and there's an infinite amount of new words that your little one has the potential of learning. Remember - language isn't in...

ALL CHILDREN drop syllables from longer words at some point in their development. Its called 'weak syllable deletion' - and it just means that the...

Autism Spectrum Disorder is just that; a spectrum. Its not a straight line from 'not autistic' to 'very autistic', it's a vibrant colour palette o...

My heart hurt as I wrote 'hokey tokey' for my fellow kiwis. It's 'hokey cokey' in the UK (where I'm from) and I've learned it's 'hokey pokey' in th...

Some sounds are harder to say than others. If you haven't already, check out my first 2 posts on the 'early eight' and 'next nine' speech sounds th...

Some sounds are harder to say than others. If you haven't already, check out my first post with 'the early 8' to learn which speech sounds typicall...

Some sounds are harder to say than others, so we don't tend to hear children say them until they're older. Knowing WHEN sounds typically develop wi...

I hear SO MANY people missing the teaching opportunity by saying "good boy" or "good girl". If this is you - don't be offended! I can FEEL the exc...