We are developing a  new website with our friends at Devmac especially for parents. We are told so often that parents want to help thei...

We take the development of communication for granted but it is actually the best achievement of our lifetime. There, is however,  a very al...

I spend hours each day working on attention and listening. I cannot stress how important these skills are to learning and to language develo...

I was very concerned about the poor listening skills of children in primary schools so I decided to seek the views of colleagues in educatio...

Many people are surprised me when I say I work on attention skills as a speech and language therapist but I feel that it is an important par...

As we mentioned in previous blog posts, listening is a learned skill and involves distinct components which need to be taught: good sitting ...

·          At least 40,000 children will have started school this September without the necessary level of speech, language and communicati...

We tend to get quite poor results if we say "Behave!" to our little ones. It means very little, whereas if we describe the behavio...