Speech Therapy with Catherine

Speech Therapy with Catherine MRCSLT, MHCPC

Speech and Language Therapist in Independent Practice

Providing advanced specialist speech and language assessment, therapy and training to children, families and schools in the Aylesbury Vale and South Oxfordshire areas.

26/10/2022

We will be running the next level in our popular Makaton course - Level 2. Starting soon on 1st November this course is the next step in your Makaton training. As usual, there is no cost for this course, but we do charge £30 to cover the cost of manuals. Please get in touch if you would like to join this course.

It’s DLD awareness day today! A relatively unknown term despite its prevalence and impacts, it needs shouting about. Key...
14/10/2022

It’s DLD awareness day today! A relatively unknown term despite its prevalence and impacts, it needs shouting about.

Key Facts:

➡️Developmental Language Disorder is a lifelong hidden condition affecting 1 in 14 people

➡️It is a significant difficulty with learning, understanding and using spoken language.

➡️It emerges in early childhood and continues into adulthood.

DLD matters! Identification and high quality treatment/support make a massive difference to long term outcomes.

For lots more including strategies for young people, parents and teachers, go to www.radld.org

11/07/2022

These ideas are easy to build into everyday play and interactions ❤️

You may be doing these already but it’s so good to know that what you are doing is directly helping!

⭐️Recognise a word when you hear/see it ⭐️ - the following count as words - when used consistently to refer to the item/person:
✅accurate words
✅word approximations (sounds close to real word eg nana for banana)
✅sound effect words eg moo for cow, choo choo for train
✅signs

Great words to start with are ‘more’ and ‘go’!

More - this is a really motivating word which can be used across the day in different contexts! They can request more of anything, which can reduce frustration 🙌🏼
Bonus: it’s also a sound you can ‘see’! It’s made with the lips, so your child can see what you are doing to make the sound
Extra tip: It’s a good idea to add on the word of the thing they are requesting after they have said ‘more’, so you are taking the opportunity to practise other words e.g:

You holding out banana: “more?”
Child: “more!” (Or non verbal such as reaching or pointing)
You: “more banana!” 😁

Go - a fun word you can use in lots of games and activities!
Bonus: A nice early verb (action word) which can also be used to request e.g to ‘go’ outside, ‘go’ downstairs etc. especially when combined with pointing!
Extra tip: you don’t need to focus on the particular sounds your child uses at this stage - G is a harder sound for young children and they often replace it with D instead - so if you hear your child say ‘do’ instead of ‘go’ this is OK! It will typically become more accurate over time 🤗

Other top first words include:
⚽️Familiar nouns (something they experience lots of!): ball, car, dog, cat, etc!…
👋🏻Greetings (eg. bye bye) are great because they are naturally combined with gesture (waving) and they’re social

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Aylesbury

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