London Speech and Feeding Blog

Does your child say “Dough” instead of “Go”? Or “Tea” instead of “Key”? Do you hear a /Sh/ instead of an /S/ does “see” sound more like “she”? We Speechies call this a Fronting Pattern which means that a sound that should be produced at the back of the throat with the back of the tongue, like K or G…

Pip and Posy by Axel Scheffler One of my all time favourite book series, Pip and Posy, oh sooo good. Before I tell you a bit about this book, just a few tips on reading aloud to children who are behind with their language and struggle to talk. It is often assumed that “reading a book” means that we read…

Your Speech Therapist might have been advising you to introduce words to your child with the help of a CORE BOARD. What on earth is she talking about and why would we want to do this, I hear you think – and in fact this is what I get asked a lot, as I often do recommend using Core Boards….