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Hi! Welcome to Play on Words Speech and Language Therapy. POW! Instagram: .speechtherapy

is a private speech and language therapy service, working with children aged between 2.5-18 years old.

20/01/2026

💥This is why your child might not be following your instructions...

💥Key words in instructions are the essential words you use which carry meaning. For the instruction "show me the teddy", your child only needs to understand one word: teddy.

💥As they get older they need to follow harder, longer instructions and so need to understand more "key words".

💥Key words are NOT the number of words in the sentence. The key words require a choice to be made i.e the child needs to choose a teddy over the other toys in order to follow the instruction correctly.

❓Why they are important (especially in speech therapy)?

1️⃣Develop Language Skills: Helps children build understanding for more complex sentences.

2️⃣Assess Understanding: Speech therapists use key word levels (1-word, 2-word, etc.) to gauge a child's ability to follow instructions of increasing complexity.

3️⃣Support Learning: By focusing on key words, adults can structure instructions to help children practice choosing the correct items or actions.

👩🏻‍⚕️A speech and language therapist can help you figure out if your child is able to follow instructions (as well as other receptive language tasks) appropriate for their age.

💡Worried about your child's speech, language or communication skills? Contact us at www.powspeechtherapy.co.uk.

14/01/2026

👶🏻Children typically start forming 2 words sentences once they have enough single words (about 50!). We expect two-word sentences around 2 years old.

🤱🏻Encourage your child by adding one more word onto the words they already say. Remember to vary the type of words you add. Don't just add "please" onto words.

🗣️We don't need to make them repeat us (resist the urge to tell them to "say..") and instead model language naturally in daily activities or playtime.

💡Worried about your child's speech, language or communication skills? Contact us at www.powspeechtherapy.co.uk.

10/12/2025

❓Did you know there are two types of language development? It's important to know how your child is learning so that we can use the right strategies to support them.

⬆️At the top we see Analytic development-most people are familiar with this style. We use single words to grow your child's vocabulary.

⬇️At the bottom we see gestalt development. We use phrases, intonation and acknowledgement to grow your child's gestalts (phrases).

👩🏻‍⚕️A speech and language therapist can help you figure out if your child is an analytic or gestalt language processor.

💡Worried about your child's speech, language or communication skills? Contact us at www.powspeechtherapy.co.uk.

26/11/2025

🔎Look what we have been working on at Play On Words Speech and Language Therapy this term:

1. Gestalt Language Processing: Stage 1 with goals to increase different types of stage 1 gestalts.

2.Gestalt Language Processing: Stage 2 with goals to help the child to mitigate gestalts.

3. Language delay with goals for vocabulary, sentences and attention/listening.

4. Language delay with goals for basic grammar and word types (verbs/adjectives/adverbs).

5. Social/emotional with goals to increase confidence with conversation skills.

💡Worried about your child's speech, language or communication skills? Contact us at www.powspeechtherapy.co.uk.

24/11/2025

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09/10/2025

‼️I'm Back 😁‼️

Welcome back to my Instagram page! After a wonderful detour to welcome baby number 2, I'm diving back into the world of speech therapy, sharing insights and the work I do.

Check out my website www.powspeechtherapy.co.uk for more info.

20/05/2024

❓Who, what, when, where and Why...are considered the 5 basic questions that are asked to learn about a person, event, or text.

❔Asking and answering wh- questions are essential skills, as they lay the foundation to participate in conversations, to demonstrate knowledge, to collect information, to create, and to help make sense of their surroundings and themselves.

❓Children start being able to answer some of these questions from 1 years old! As a rough guide:
1-2 yrs: where and what
2-3 yrs: who,where and what
3 yrs: who, why, where
4 yrs: when

❔Difficulties with understanding and answering wh-questions can be supported in speech therapy.

✔️Here, I'm using wh-question cards from . The cards have answers in picture form which helps our learners think of the answer if they are struggling.

✔️I used these cards in digital form in my sessions to target WH questions but you can also print them off and use.

Resources:
⭐Everything is Speechie TpT store: "wh-question cards with real photos

07/05/2024

Echolalia means repeating what someone else has said. This might be words, phrases, sounds or noises. It can be immediate (right after it has been heard) or delayed (child repeats after a certain time frame).

Echolalia is common in autistic individuals and some reasons for this are:

Immediate echolalia:
to process language
take a turn in conversation
sign they are dysregulated
committing language to memory
Delayed echolalia:
communicating with you (stage 1 of Gestalt Language Development)

Sometimes children use echolalia as a vocal stim, helping with self regulation or as vocal play(they like how it sounds).

❓Does your child use echolalia?

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6qBiAss2IR/?igsh=cnJ6emx3NGVvOTdx

22/04/2024

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Why I don't teach colours and shapes...

When your child is just learning to talk, functional words are more important than colours, letters, shapes and numbers.

❓What are functional words?
These are words that help your child get their needs and wants met. We use them more frequently in daily life and so it makes sense to focus on these words first.

Try modelling these types of words:
✅ Names of important people in your child's life: mum, dad, grandad etc.
✅ Core words: more, no, finished, stop, help, yes, no
✅ Favourite food and drink
✅ Favourite toys
✅ Action words: play, eat, sleep, run etc.
✅ Location words: in, on, up, under etc.

Before school age, being able to say "mummy help" or "more water" is more helpful than being able to say "green circle".

In this reel, we are playing with a postbox (great for functional words!). Rather than naming the colours of the letters or counting them...which of the above types of words did we use?

❓When do I teach colours,numbers, shapes, letters etc?

When your child is able to communicate their wants and needs effectively e.g can they tell you they want more food? Can they ask you to play? Can they tell you they want you to open their toy/food packet etc.

08/04/2024

⭐Working on language skills....⭐

❓Why is categorising important?
✔️ Once children have lots of vocabulary, being able to put them into groups is the next step.

✔️ Lots of the early years curriculum focuses on basic categories and sorting. Grouping objects by colour, size or shape is a developmental milestone for cognition – which is learning, thinking and problem solving.

✔️ Sorting and matching things helps develop visual perceptual skills, thinking and memory skills. These important brain skills help with attention and problem-solving.

✔️Here, I'm using Boom cards from with a motivating Pop the Pig game. We go through the activities on the ipad which ask the child to look the pictures and answer the questions. After each question, the child takes a turn feeding the pig.

✔️ I found this resource useful when generalising our categorising skills (after sorting real objects and pictures and filling in any vocabulary gaps).

Resources:
⭐Everything is Speechie TpT store: "Teletherapy: Categories -Boom Cards"

⭐Amazon: Pop the Pig toy

25/03/2024

⭐Gestalt Language Processing Training...
We also provide training to teachers and schools so they can identify the signs of speech, language and communication needs and support them appropriately.

⭐We have been doing a lot of training on Gestalt Language Processing (GLP) lately (for both parents and teachers!), with lots of great feedback!

⭐Training can be individualised for your needs. Training can be done one to one (usually for class teachers/ TAs or parents) to training 50 staff members for a whole school training 😍.

⭐Check out some of the GLP reels on our IG grid to learn more about GLPs.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C47gaWjsgVl/?igsh=N3dpYmhnNmVrZ2Fw

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Enfield
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Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

Website

http://www.powspeechtherapy.co.uk/

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