Possible Words Clinic

04/03/2022

It is useful to know the milestones of children’s speech and language development, especially if you’re a new parent....

28/12/2020

Of course, there is a long and wide gradient between the child who nobody can understand and the child of say nine years old who gets the odd word wrong in some unusual way – like saying 'cardigan' as KARDINTON – with three things going wrong – turning the G into a D, then turning that into a T, and then copying the N come before the T as well as at the end. Such mistakes don't matter in themselves. But they are like a warning of what may happen. The nine year old who makes that sort of mistake with a familiar word like 'cardigan' may later on have problems with all sorts of unfamiliar words. And that can be embarrassing.

08/09/2020

https://possiblewords.co.uk/how-and-why-linguistics-matters/evolution/what-makes-us-human/

Where there are problems in any aspect of children’s development it makes sense to investigate how it may have evolved. Going back some 400 million years, this applies to human arms and legs.…

07/08/2020

When the child with a speech and language delay or disorder goes back to school it will be a very different place to what it was before. The teacher's mind will be full of new responsibilities: doing his or her job, making good a back log of up to six months, and maintaining social distancing. The needs of the child who nobody can understood won't be anywhere near the top of the list.

22/07/2020

For the child unable to make himself or herself understood at the best of times lock down is doubly horrendous.

08/07/2020

The big question now is: How to work with a child on social media?
What are your thoughts?