Chatalot Clinic-Children's Speech and Language Therapy

Chatalot Clinic-Children's Speech and Language Therapy Katie's therapy supports children's speech & language development, with fun activities and advice.

The activities shown don't involve lots of preparation and can be fitted in to the day, when the opportunity presents itself. Functional speech and language activities as part of the day are the most effective 'homework' and are hopefully the least stressful for already time-pressured parents, carers and staff. My two little helpers assist with demonstrating how the activities might work and the videos are 'real life' :-) I hope you find them useful....

20/09/2025

It is quite common, while chatting with parents, carers and staff sometimes for the L word to crop up!
Is a child being lazy? Or are they actually just lacking motivation because something seems too daunting? Or not worthwhile enough?

Children can become demotivated and I think this is when we might see some stubbornness or avoidance behaviours creep in.

This is when we need to consider scaffolding the task enough for the child to be successful!🧱🧱

We can also consider explaining further to the child why we are doing a task and sharing what the specific goal is. For example, we are practicing these short s words today, so that when we play this matching game, you can tell me when you have found the ssssame!

Giving children worthwhile and motivating reasons for doing the activity can really help, as well as showing them that they are capable of doing it❤️

It’s nearly the start of a new academic year and the end of the school holidays. Developmental Language Disorder is a br...
31/08/2025

It’s nearly the start of a new academic year and the end of the school holidays.

Developmental Language Disorder is a brain difference that affects around 10% of children in each class, but can often be missed.

These children can particularly struggle with grammar and using past tense and this may be an indicator for the need for further assessment amongst preschool children.

Struggles with learning vocabulary and remembering what has been said are also typical characteristics of DLD.

An SLT may take a language sample as part of their initial screening and use some therapy type activities to assess a child’s use of grammar and syntax.

Sentence repetition can also be a really insightful tool, which is when the therapist may ask a child to repeat a sentence word for word (sentences may range in the number of words, the vocabulary and complexity).

Good luck to all going back to school or embarking on their very first day🙂

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