Listen Up! Advice on hearing, listening and processing auditory information
Learning to listen & listening to learn It鈥檚 deaf awareness week, so I wanted to shed some light on how important our listening environment is for learning. Not just for hearing impaired and deaf 鈥�
A Guide to Vocabulary Teaching: Part 2
The second part in a series of 3 blogs about vocabulary teaching: the 鈥榟ow鈥� and the 鈥榳ho鈥� How? 鈥� how do we begin to teach children the vocabulary needed to engage in all aspects of the curriculum? Who 鈥�
The Forgotten Children Scandal 鈥� A Review
On the 18th July 2018, the House of Commons Education Committee put together their review of alternative provisions (APs) in the UK and the difficulties around providing education for children not in 鈥�
A Guide to Vocabulary Teaching: Part 1
As every teacher knows, vocabulary knowledge is key. A student who has an extensive vocabulary tends to be able to follow instructions more successfully, write more interesting stories and sentences a 鈥�
Do you have a child with Auditory Processing Disorder in your class?
Auditory Processing Disorder (APD) is a diagnosis that has been around for a number of years but has gained a large amount of interest over the last 5 years. This post aims to demystify APD, help you 鈥�
Incorporating Oracy in Key Stage 2 Science
Oracy & dialogic teaching If you haven鈥檛 read my first blog, Everything you Need to Know about Oracy and Dialogic Teaching I recommend you go back and give it a read. It鈥檚 a good foundation into t 鈥�
Everything you Need to Know about Oracy and Dialogic Teaching
In this blog series, I will give you everything you need to know about Oracy and Dialogic teaching. I work with children at Key Stage 2 so I will explain what is meant by dialogic teaching and cover p 鈥�
How do you measure the impact of speech and language therapy?
When 鈥渉e鈥檚 doing really well鈥� just doesn鈥檛 cut the mustard. Here鈥檚 the thing, without evaluation, it is impossible to know whether an intervention is having a positive impact on learning. It can be te 鈥�
Supporting communication in children with behavioural difficulties
Can I be totally honest with you? The following advertisement released earlier this year for a school 鈥渄etention director鈥� mortified me. According to the school鈥檚 website the following behaviours are 鈥�
Does Speech Therapy Online Actually Work?
With the dust settling after Bett 2018 we all left with one clear message ringing in our ears 鈥� 鈥渢echnology is the future鈥�. It鈥檚 not just in teaching that innovations are happening but in those servic 鈥�
