Talking Matters Blog

Visuals can help school aged children with daily activities, learning, behaviour and social skills. Why are visuals helpful?Visuals are permanent, while spoken words last only a few seconds.Children can refer back to vis… Go to full post

If you are waiting for an assessment or therapy to begin, or if you just want to help your child’s development every day, here are some simple things you can do that make a real difference to your child’s language s… Go to full post

Procedures are the step by step descriptions of how to do something.  They are one of the language tasks children learn as they move from using single sentences to joining sentences together to form larger blocks of lan… Go to full post

Kids love to cook and the weekend is a great time to slow down and let the kids be involved in making meals, or making their own snacks to keep them happy through the day. Kids will enjoy making simple things such as che… Go to full post

Helping your baby or toddler to learn speech and language skills is one of the best things you can do to set your child up for future success with learning. Babies are preprogrammed to tune into speech and especially to … Go to full post