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Dr. Marion Blank’s Language Levels
I was bowled over the day I came upon this work and it underpinned my practice in speech and language therapy thereafter. I have written before about it and I think all the links still work. For background information and … Continue reading
Posted in Child language, Competence level, ESL / EFL / EAL, Helping children understand, Inference, Speech & Language Pathology, Speech & Language Therapy, Teaching, Uncategorized
Tagged Getting meaning from pictures, Home schooling, language development, Marion Blank, new vocabulary, S<, SLP
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Any day now…
Here we are in April already and facing a whole new set of rules for life. I know there must be many people trying to provide input at home which is normally done elsewhere by someone else. So I have … Continue reading
Posted in Child language, ESL / EFL / EAL, Promoting language development, Speech & Language Therapy, Teaching
Tagged Home schooling, language development, S<, SLP
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Up and running again
I have put in hours of work to correct the out of date links on my blog and I hope now they are working properly! Sorry I hadn’t noticed there were heaps of errors. Trust the majority have got sorted … Continue reading
Posted in Child language, Education at home, ESL / EFL / EAL, Grammar, Helping language skills at home, Home schooling, Language Levels, Promoting language development, Teaching
Tagged Home schooling, language development, Making it easier, S<, SLP, symbol support
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Dr. Marion Blank
The language style used by adults to children in the preschool and early school years is critical. (Post reissued)
Posted in Child language, Competence level, Grammar, Helping children understand, Marion Blank, Promoting language development, Speech & Language Pathology, Speech & Language Therapy, Teaching
Tagged language development, Learning to mean, S<, SLP
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Can you see what I mean?
This post is to highlight a published resource I designed but cannot put on TES (although I have a section of free resources there which you can find described on the page Read for Meaning/Inference in the list on the … Continue reading
Posted in Child language, Competence level, Grammar, Helping children understand, Inference, Promoting language development, Teaching
Tagged Getting meaning from pictures, language development, Learning to mean, S<, SLP
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Citroen alert!
‘Don’t like Citroen!’ ‘You don’t like Citroens? Why’s that?’ ‘Citroen run me down.’ The grandfather’s chuckle as he replied led me to believe that Citroens have not shown an evil disposition to attack his grandson. Indeed, it seemed unlikely from … Continue reading
Posted in Child language, Helping children understand, Promoting language development, Speech & Language Pathology, Speech & Language Therapy, Teaching
Tagged language development, Learning to mean, S<, SLP, What kids say
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Let’s not add to confusion
English is very open to misunderstanding because of the number of homophones we have. Some are not spelt the same way – but when you hear examples there is scope for confusion – and of course non-readers cannot visualise both … Continue reading
Posted in Helping children understand, Promoting language development, Speech & Language Pathology, Speech & Language Therapy, Teaching
Tagged Learning to mean, Making it easier, S<, SLP
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Keep speech simple too
It’s not just print that needs adapting – even talk can be confusing! The words we use, the speed we go, the in-between time – all these will influence how much a child understands. Especially the child with delayed or … Continue reading
Posted in Association, Child language, Competence level, Inference, Promoting language development, Speech & Language Pathology, Speech & Language Therapy, Teaching
Tagged Analogy, Making it easier, S<, SLP
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Keeping text simple
It can’t be hard to make things simpler… can it? Well, actually, it can be quite tricky. Creating or adapting resources for children with language impairment can take a long time. Not only that. After using the resources it may … Continue reading
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