Developmental Language Disorder Awareness Day: our free DLD guide for families
DLD is common. But it is not well understood. It’s hard to find evidence-based information that is easy to read. We’ve written a lot about…
Not about ‘fixing’: using the ‘F-Word Framework’ to support children with communication disorders and their families
The ‘medical model’ of communication disorders focuses on ‘fixing’ children through assessment, diagnosis, and ‘treatment’. But children with communication disorders aren’t ‘sick’ or ‘broken’. A…
Focusing speech therapy on functional outcomes: a refresher
Traditionally, many speech pathologists were trained to break their clients’ communication difficulties into parts in order to identify and treat communication ‘disorders’, e.g. speech sound…
Project-based Pragmatic Language Interventions: The SENSE Theatre
Play is not the only way: Play is one way to combine peer mediation and video-modelling to increase children’s pragmatic language skills. Another idea is…
Planning a play date for your child during the school holidays?
Why arrange a play date? Play develops motor skills, construction skills, symbolic pretend play, problem-solving, negotiation, reasoning skills, social language skills, independence, creativity and risk-taking…