January 28, 2022
by Mary Pat
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Here we are with the 4th post in our series of 5 about helping children with their reading. I’ll hand you over to my friend and SLT colleague Phyllis Jordan who works specifically with children and young people who struggle … 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
December 16, 2019
by Mary Pat
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In my last post, you found out about dialogic book reading and how to use books as props for conversations with your multilingual child in whatever language you need. (You can read about the 11 Principles of Dialogic Reading here. There … Continue reading
November 22, 2019
by Mary Pat
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You can Another proven way to support your child’s language development (whether they have a language problem or not) is dialogic book reading. I’m going to cover how to do it in two blog posts as it’s too much to … Continue reading
February 14, 2018
by Mary Pat
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So I’ve started writing a book about how to develop all of your child’s languages when you speak two languages or more. I’m doing a lot of reading around the topic at the moment and there’s one thing about children and … Continue reading
January 18, 2018
by Mary Pat
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So my little girl has become enamoured with LOL Surprise Dolls recently. I was reluctant to let them into our world but relented in the end. Setting aside all totally reasonable arguments about toy companies manipulating us and our children, … Continue reading
April 19, 2017
by Mary Pat
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A new student society has been set up in the university where I work. It’s called The Health Care Society and the whole point is to put the patient and the patient’s voice at the center of health care. This is … Continue reading