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…
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 to express in other ways. Using children’s natural inclination to play, children can express their inner life and…
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!…
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…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
At Treetop, our Speech and Language therapists work with a range of speech difficulties that sometimes impact significantly on the children’s intelligibility. Elizabeth Gunner, from SpeechBlogUK, highlighted a few great strategies that both parents and professional can use when communicating with children whose speech is unclear. For example: Show them you…
Strategies On The Go: How to use Peppa Pig to promote Speech and Language Development At Treetop, our Speech and Language therapists like Peppa Pig too! Twinkleboost Blog published a few simple ideas using Peppa Pig such as “Peppa Pig stories focus on key vocabulary that toddlers and pre…
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