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Understanding executive functioning and language is crucial for both teachers and parents because these skills are foundational for a child's cognitive, social, and academic success. Executive functioning involves mental processes like working memory, flexible thinking, and self-control, which are essential for planning, decision-making, and problem-solving. Language, on the other hand, is key for communication, learning, and expressing thoughts and emotions. For teachers, understanding these ar

Techniques focused on targeting; -Establish normal vocal fold vibration via co-ordination of respiration and/or phonation and increasing vocal fold strength. -Increase and decrease pitch without abnormal perceptual voice characteristics. May require improvement of vocal fold strength and flexibility and co-ordination of phonation and respiration. Reducing breathiness, roughness and strain will assist with improving pitch variation. -To regulate biofeedback feeling and tension in vocal folds, o

Story retelling is a fantastic way to deepen students' understanding and boost their comprehension skills. By encouraging students to retell a story in their own words, they practice key skills such as sequencing, identifying main ideas, and recognizing important details. Retelling also helps students develop their vocabulary, memory, and storytelling abilities, making learning more engaging and interactive. Whether oral or written, story retelling enhances creativity, improves fluency, and buil

A useful tool to support Speech Therapy students to guide clinical decision making whilst beginning seeing clients. A useful visual when mapping children's error types to an effective intervention approach.

Helpful phrasing, feel confident in how to say it. Find the purpose to what you say and be specific.

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Useful resource to use a strengths based approach with children, teens and adults. All traits described can be backed by current research evidence. Please see two of the references below Charabin, E., Climie, E. A., Miller, C., Jelinkova, K., & Wilkins, J. (2023). “I’m Doing Okay”, And Sedgwick, J. A., Merwood, A., & Asherson, P. (2019). The positive aspects of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: a qualitative investigation of successful adults with ADHD.

A quiz designed to support the individual to understand their preferences as well as those around them when recieving communication. Through developing awareness, it will support advocacy/needs within the school or workplace environment. Information taken from Laroche, 2007 regarding direct and indirect communication features.

Helpful to develop self awareness of the volume of voice within classroom, home and community settings

Understanding Colourful Semantics is important for teachers and parents because it provides a structured approach to improving language and sentence-building skills in children. Colourful Semantics links colors to different parts of a sentence (e.g., who, what doing, where) to help children visually and cognitively break down sentence components. This method supports children in organizing their thoughts, understanding sentence structure, and developing more complex language skills. For teache

Visual support for prepositions and locational words Prepositions often represent abstract spatial or relational concepts that can be difficult to grasp through language alone. Visual supports provide a concrete, visual representation of these ideas, making them easier to understand.

Wooful activity to teach same and different to children with multiple targets and tally sheet.

Three techniques to reduce stuttering as well as parent feedback handout.

7 Healthy voice strategies to practice in vocal therapy. Blur applied in image preview to prevent copy right.

Visual support for clothing and accessories

Colours and patterns describing visuals

Visual aid for when someone ask a child to play and how they can respond.

A useful handout on how to incorporate core word boards at home with examples.