Useful Advice and Information

When you come to see us, your Speech and Language Therapist will give you more specific advice, in the meantime, some of these may be helpful:

General Development

• Language and speech pyramid
• Top tips for supporting your child’s language

Useful websites

• Tiny happy people
• Talking point
• ICAN
• Afasic
• The Hanen Centre
• Makaton

Expressive Language

• Early expressive language
• Narrative difficulties (expressive language for older children)
• Word finding difficulties
• Vocabulary difficulties

Stammering

• top tips to help a child who stammers
• How to help the dysfluent child

Useful websites:

• Stamma
• Palin centre

Speech Sounds

• Speech sound development chart
• Unclear speech sounds

Understanding and Attention

• Attention and listening
• Auditory memory
• Understanding of language

Social Communication

• Social skills

Other Information

• Use of dummies
• Using an ‘I’m working for…’ chart
• Using visual timetables