Learning colours…speech and communication blog

Today we have been continuing learning colours. J can already match colours and can point to some basic colours when asked. So the next step is to use Makaton to communicate the colours.    J loves cars (and anything with moving parts to be honest) but isn’t the biggest fan of mess and ‘wet’ textures….

Making choices (part 2)…speech and language blog

Wow it’s been a time last week. J has perfected the tantrum scream and not afraid to use it, he’s also learnt to say ‘beep beep’ for cars and babbling more freely.  Making choices… So, today’s pecs activity is to strengthen his deliberate use of symbols to request an item. We used his rainbow arches…

Review of Orchard Toy ‘Post box Game’: Using the game to build speech and language skills.

J and I have both been under the weather so we’ve had a chilled couple of days. This means I have had to find ways to amuse J without it using too much energy (for ether of us). I thought that a board game would be a great idea as we could chill on the…