November 3, 2023
by Mary Pat
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Last post in this series on how to support multilingual children in settings from day care to preschool to school! This time we are off to Spain where Khalfaoui and colleagues looked at 14 studies to get a handle on what … Continue reading
November 3, 2023
by Mary Pat
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Langaloo and colleagues in Holland looked at 31 studies of teacher-child interaction with multilingual children and how they compare with teacher-child interactions with monolingual children. Essentially, they conclude that where children have low skill levels in the school language, teachers … Continue reading
November 3, 2023
by Mary Pat
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In day-care settings, De Houwer and Pascal (2021) recommend that educators actively value all of the home languages. This doesn’t mean you have to know all of the languages or teach these languages in the day care setting. It does … Continue reading
November 3, 2023
by Mary Pat
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You know that expression : if you can’t see it, you can’t be it? I think it’s worth thinking about that in relation to our speech and language therapy clinics and in education settings too. I’ve been reading some studies looking … Continue reading
April 30, 2022
by Mary Pat
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Key words about the research on this topic? Ambiguous, conflicting, sparse! I’ve read two systematic reviews that aimed to pull together several studies on the topic & I picked key points from both to keep things simple. First up is … Continue reading
October 15, 2021
by Mary Pat
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Welcome to the third post in the five part series about reading and writing in children, put together for you by myself and my friend and colleague Phyllis Jordan who works specifically with children who struggle with reading. In the … Continue reading
September 10, 2021
by Mary Pat
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And we’re back! Phyllis Jordan, my speech and language therapy colleague and friend have 8 tips for you if you’re worried about your child learning to read. In our first post, we shared 14 ways for helping your child learn … Continue reading
August 26, 2021
by Mary Pat
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It’s that time of year again when school starts and we stumble through the first few days of getting back into a routine. Do you remember learning to read? I have a vague recollection of books about a boy and … Continue reading
April 21, 2021
by Mary Pat
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This is a massive topic! There’s so much debate about methods and strategies and timing for learning to read and write. I’m not going to try and cover everything in this post or we’d be here forever! I’m just going … Continue reading
January 20, 2021
by Mary Pat
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Sorry it’s taken me so long to finish this three part series on language in twins. Snowed under while working from home and utterly exhausted before Christmas put a stop to my gallop! Back in action now and ready to … Continue reading