Chatalot Clinic-Children's Speech and Language Therapy

Chatalot Clinic-Children's Speech and Language Therapy Katie's therapy supports children's speech & language development, with fun activities and advice.

The activities shown don't involve lots of preparation and can be fitted in to the day, when the opportunity presents itself. Functional speech and language activities as part of the day are the most effective 'homework' and are hopefully the least stressful for already time-pressured parents, carers and staff. My two little helpers assist with demonstrating how the activities might work and the videos are 'real life' :-) I hope you find them useful....

It can be a very difficult decision for families and educational staff to decide when to seek professional assessment. I...
11/04/2026

It can be a very difficult decision for families and educational staff to decide when to seek professional assessment. Is the child ‘just’ a late talker and going to get there by themselves?🤔

A recent study by Mettler et al has highlighted that as many as 50% or more late talkers go on to be diagnosed with a language/ literacy impairment. This is significantly higher than the previously cited 25% or below.

The importance of monitoring these late talkers as they move up into school and literacy is introduced is key, even if they pass a screening test and seem to have caught up🌟

20/09/2025

It is quite common, while chatting with parents, carers and staff sometimes for the L word to crop up!
Is a child being lazy? Or are they actually just lacking motivation because something seems too daunting? Or not worthwhile enough?

Children can become demotivated and I think this is when we might see some stubbornness or avoidance behaviours creep in.

This is when we need to consider scaffolding the task enough for the child to be successful!🧱🧱

We can also consider explaining further to the child why we are doing a task and sharing what the specific goal is. For example, we are practicing these short s words today, so that when we play this matching game, you can tell me when you have found the ssssame!

Giving children worthwhile and motivating reasons for doing the activity can really help, as well as showing them that they are capable of doing it❤️

At the start of this year in our house, at bedtime, we started a little routine of rose, bud and thorn.We ask each other...
17/12/2024

At the start of this year in our house, at bedtime, we started a little routine of rose, bud and thorn.
We ask each other what our rose was for the day. This can be something lovely, fun, happy, exciting, a positive thing! 🌹
We also ask what the thorn was? What was the stand out bad, sad, not fun thing that happened?🤯
Then there is also the bud, what did we learn?🪷
It has carried over into the day as well, describing events as roses or thorns!

I’ve found it’s a great way in to some chat! And that can only be a good thing👍🏻🎄

Photos: My roses yesterday and today🥰

Oftentimes during the holidays or moments of fun and calm we get our wow moments💡🌟💡I hope to share something that might ...
30/10/2024

Oftentimes during the holidays or moments of fun and calm we get our wow moments💡🌟💡
I hope to share something that might give you a pause for thought.

The wonderful Siobhan Ray has been taking a group of us salts each Wednesday evening this month for a wonderful extension to Attention Autism and Intensive Interaction, The Curiousity Programme👀🧐
When we engage with children who are not learning language in a neurotypical way, using our often analytical and neurotypical communication methods such as asking questions or making eye contact, the interaction can fall flat very quickly.

Then, feeling disheartened we may assume the child doesn’t want to interact and the communication attempt ends.

But they may be interacting and we are missing it, as we are looking for the ways that WE might typically interact and misinterpreting their signals.

This can lead to fewer and fewer opportunities for social interaction.

Some children may be not yet using words to communicate,so coming in with words and questions is less likely to result in a positive interaction.

We need to meet them where they are and if they are at the stage of vocalising and loving tapping items, we can respectfully join them in this and build a playful interaction this way.

If it’s important to them it’s important to us too, and if we join them in their play they are set up to succeed. And that is positive for everyone💡🌟

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