Why do some language and reading tests ask about your child’s right- or left-handedness?
Most people prefer using their right hand for most motor tasks. About 10% of people are left-handed; and boys are about 23% more likely than…
“Where’s the BEAR? Ah! HERE! Hellooooo BEAR!” Why do babies prefer to be spoken to this way, and why do parents and carers do it naturally?
As you read the title of this article, you can almost hear the parent’s voice in your head: high-pitched, with exaggerated stress, maybe slower than…
FREE tips and resources to help your preschooler or school-aged child learn “book language” for later school and life success
I’m confronted with tens of thousands of words a day. Most of them are written words – something I didn’t really think about until I…
4 practical ways to improve the ‘dose form’ of language therapy for children with Developmental Language Disorder
The four tips (research paper link below): 1. Techniques Don’t just model. Provide lots of opportunities for children to produce the target(s). 2. Procedure First,…
“Nothing about us without us”* – what children with Developmental Language Disorder tell us about their relationships with peers – and what we should do in response
Research about children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) tells us that, compared to their typically developing peers: children with DLD have difficulties with peer relations…