When assessing Kindergarten and Year 1 students for reading difficulties, we should always test spelling. Here’s why.
A while back, a worried parent asked me why I was planning to test her early Year 1 child’s spelling skills when the child’s main…
Stuttering: what do we mean by ‘recovery’?
We’ve been asking ourselves an important question recently: What, exactly, does ‘recovery’ from stuttering mean? We work with toddlers, preschoolers, primary school-aged children, teenagers, and adults…
Introducing The Scatter-Slayer Adventures: a decodable digital ‘select-your-sequel’ series for reluctant readers
Hello, friends and followers! We’re excited to introduce our new FREE resource for reluctant readers, aged 7-12: The Scatter-Slayer Adventures: Book 1 – Don’t Stay!…
Lifting the lid on speech therapy: How we assess and treat children with unclear speech – and why
We work with many children who have unclear speech. For some families, speech therapy can be mysterious, confusing, tedious, or even intimidating. It shouldn’t be any…
Too many children can’t read. We know what to do. But how should we do it?
The goal is clear. You wouldn’t know it from Twitter, but literacy researchers, teachers, speech-language pathologists, education psychologists, and reading tutors all want the same…