Language sessions for young school-aged children should be positive, engaging, strength-based, and practical. For all these reasons, we like to include conversations about family, fitness, friends, functioning, future, and fun – the 6 Fs!  

This simple resource of conversation starters – over 70 questions in all – is designed to be flexible: it can be used to get to know your clients better, to model questions and answers, to practice turn-taking and topic maintenance (e.g. when paired with your client’s favourite board game), to work on short explanations and recounts, or simply to interleave conversations between structured goals and activities so your sessions flow better.

It’s suitable for face-to-face and telehealth conversations, with questions that focus on your client’s strengths, interests, skills, and goals.