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Play Therapy

Play Therapy

  • 2nd December 2019

Do you struggle with your child’s behaviour at home or at school? Play Therapy could be the answer! What is it? Play Therapy works to alleviate children’s behaviour and emotional difficulties through play. Play therapy gives children the opportunity to express and process emotions that they may not be able…

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Reading books with toddlers to stimulate language development

Reading books with toddlers to stimulate language development

  • 17th July 2017

Speech and Language Therapist, Rachel Cleary from Treetop Therapy gives us some tips on how we can encourage language development with our toddlers while reading books. The main aims of this article are to help you to engage and interact, stimulate language development and to have fun with your child!…

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5 tips for boosting language with your toddler at snack time

5 tips for boosting language with your toddler at snack time

  • 20th June 2017

5 tips for boosting language with your toddler at snack time   We often get asked by parents “how can encourage language development with our toddlers at snack time?”   Comment on what your child is doing using simple, short phrases. E.g. “mmm eat cookie”. Try to remember to use…

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5 tips for boosting language at bath time

5 tips for boosting language at bath time

  • 5th June 2017

5 tips for boosting language at bath time   Treetop Therapy provides us with some tips on how to boost our children’s language during that daily bath time. 1) Try to be face to face with your child at eye level. 2) Follow their lead – Talk about what they…

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Research demonstrates benefits of word repetition to infants

  • 1st November 2015

At Treetop, our Speech and Language therapists emphasise the importance of repetition as a strategy to facilitate language development. A study by Newman, Rowe & Ratner (2015), has reiterated the importance of repetition in language development: “(…)”Parents who repeat words more often to their infants have children with better language skills a year and…

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Developing oral language through nursery rhymes

Developing oral language through nursery rhymes

  • 1st November 2015

  Developing oral language through nursery rhymes At Treetop, our Speech and Language therapists understand the importance of singing as a strategy to facilitate language development. Becca Ross, s Kindergarten & First Grade Teacher, wrote the following in the blog Leapfrog: “Creating mental images, based on stories they hear, can be…

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Strategies On The Go: A Conversation After School

Strategies On The Go: A Conversation After School

  • 29th March 2015

“What did you do today at school?” Strategies On The Go: A Conversation After School   At Treetop, our Speech and Language therapists are often asked for strategies to facilitate a conversation that starts with the common question “What did you do today at school?”. Sarah Moudry, from the Montessori Blog, provides…

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