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10 Oct Collaboration with Pickwick Teaching Alliance

Posted at 14:44h in Speech and Language Therapy by cdspeech_admin

‘More than 10% of children and young people have communication difficulties and too many are not getting the support they need,’ Bercow Ten Years On, 2018 In light of this frightening statistic, C&D and the Pickwick Learning Teaching Schools Alliance have joined forces...

11 Jul My Placement with C&D: Shannon

Posted at 09:58h in Speech and Language Therapy by cdspeech_admin

Shannon is a first year speech and language therapy student studying at the University of Essex, who has recently finished a placement with C&D therapist, Natalie. Shannon was on placement with fellow student, Alice, whose blog we shared yesterday. Here are some...

09 Jul My Placement with C&D: Alice

Posted at 17:09h in Speech and Language Therapy by cdspeech_admin

Alice, a first-year speech and language therapy student from the University of Essex, has just completed a placement with C&D therapist Natalie. Here, she shares some of her experiences, favourite moments and tips for future students. As this was a paired placement,...

28 May Toy Tuesday: Guess Who + AAC

Posted at 11:35h in Speech and Language Therapy, Toy Tuesday by cdspeech_admin

In this month's Toy Tuesday, Helen shows us how to use Guess Who to model core language in low-tech, symbol based paper AAC (Alternative and Augmentative Communication). Communication Matters defines Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) as the term that describes various methods of...

24 May My Placement with C&D: Hannah

Posted at 14:39h in Speech Therapy Essex by cdspeech_admin

Hannah, a first-year speech and language therapy student from the University of Essex, has been on placement with Natalie this term. Here, she shares some of her experiences and tips for future students on placement. Did you have any rewarding moments with a...

26 Mar Toy Tuesday: Pop Up Pirate

Posted at 07:30h in Speech and Language Therapy, Toy Tuesday by cdspeech_admin

In this month’s Toy Tuesday blog, Natalie is sharing lots of great ideas for incorporating Pop Up Pirate into therapy! Pop Up Pirate is a classic family favourite game that is played by children all around the world. Using this fun and engaging...

25 Feb Toy Tuesday: LEGO

Posted at 17:50h in Speech and Language Therapy, Toy Tuesday by cdspeech_admin

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....

14 Nov Talk Boost KS1 training

Posted at 17:42h in Speech and Language Therapy by cdspeech_admin

In October, Anita attended Talk Boost KS1 Licensee training at I CAN’s headquarters in London. She is now able to train and support staff with delivering the Talk Boost KS1 intervention programme in schools. Read on to find out more about Talk...

11 Jun The C&D clinic

Posted at 13:45h in Private Speech Therapy, Speech and Language Therapy, Speech Therapy Essex by cdspeech_admin

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...

25 Sep Do you know about DLD?

Posted at 08:48h in Speech and Language Therapy by Lizzie Fox

Terminology can be confusing, especially when even the professionals use multiple names to refer to the same difficulties! Until recently, the terms ‘Specific Language Impairment’ (SLI), ‘language disorder’ and ‘developmental language impairment’ were used to refer to children who have a difficulty...