25 Feb Toy Tuesday: LEGO
This month's Toy Tuesday blog is written by Dawn, who is a big fan of using LEGO in her therapy sessions! LEGO is of course known worldwide, and even in an age of iPads it is the number one toy among children today....
11 Jun The C&D clinic
We are delighted to introduce our exciting new speech and language therapy clinic space! Cassie worked very hard behind the scenes at the start of the year to get it ready and it has been open to clients for the last couple...
01 Feb EAST
C&D Independent Speech & Language Therapy are excited to be contributing to a multi-disciplinary team with our colleague Occupational Therapists and Educational Consultants, known as EAST. We can work collaboratively or independently to meet the needs of education establishments and support our...
02 May 3foot People Festival
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in Speech and Language Therapy
Yes! It’s that time of year again and we can’t wait! June 24th – 26th is blocked out in our diaries and we’re ready to go! Chelmsford is once again holding its annual festival especially for the under 5s with lots of fun...
12 Nov Colourful Semantics
Colourful Semantics is an evidence-based therapy approach used by Speech and Language Therapists to help children develop spoken or signed sentence structure. This approach can be used with children with a wide range of needs including those with autism and those with...
22 Sep Social stories
Many children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder struggle to understand what is expected of them and how they should behave in different social situations. They can find it extremely challenging to pick up on social cues, inference and empathise which can make it...
19 Sep Setting the scene; planning our day with visuals
I love my diary; I plan, organise and live my life according to the hours in each day. I change, rearrange and know exactly where I’m meant to be and who I’m meant to be seeing. Change it unexpectedly and you’ll find...
04 Sep Lego Therapy
Lego Therapy is a popular therapeutic intervention that is used to support children with social communication and language difficulties such as Autistic Spectrum Disorder. The purpose of Lego Therapy is to help children ask questions, initiate communication, use descriptive language, repair communication...