Do you have a child with Auditory Processing Disorder in your class?
Auditory Processing Disorder (APD) is a diagnosis that has been around for a number of years but has gained a large amount of interest over the last 5 years. This post aims to..
How to help the child in your class with social difficulties
Social skills are on a spectrum, even for those amongst us are neurologically typical. We all know someone who has excellent social skills, which makes them charming, popular and..
Incorporating Oracy in Key Stage 2 Science
Oracy & dialogic teaching If you haven’t read my first blog, Everything you Need to Know about Oracy and Dialogic Teaching I recommend you go back and give it a read. It’s a good..
Everything you Need to Know about Oracy and Dialogic Teaching
In this blog series, I will give you everything you need to know about Oracy and Dialogic teaching. I work with children at Key Stage 2 so I will explain what is meant by dialogic..
Speech and language strategies to develop oracy at Key Stage 2
I think we can all agree that oracy is fast becoming a hugely important part of our teaching. There is no doubt we want all our pupils to express themselves confidently and..
How do you measure the impact of speech and language therapy?
When “he’s doing really well” just doesn’t cut the mustard. Here’s the thing, without evaluation, it is impossible to know whether an intervention is having a positive impact on..
Supporting communication in children with behavioural difficulties
Can I be totally honest with you? The following advertisement released earlier this year for a school “detention director” mortified me.
Why Everyone is Talking about Telepractice – Speech and Language Therapy Online.
With the dust settling after Bett 2018 we all left with one clear message ringing in our ears – “technology is the future”. It’s not just in teaching that innovations are..
Behaviour is a Form of Communication
Think about this for a moment, 60% of all communication is nonverbal. This means the body language we use, the facial expressions, the gestures are all communicating for us, even..
