World Book Day is Thursday the 4th of March. To celebrate World Book Day, we're thinking all about language and literacy. Language skills...

Remember the first lockdown? At the time it felt phenomenally challenging, but does anyone else look back on it now with a sort of...

No Pens Day Wednesday is an annual day where schools and early years settings across teh country are encouraged to focus on spoken...

Today we're thinking about words. How do we learn them? How do we remember them? Humans are hard-wired for word learning. As adults, we...

Over on Instagram (@lucypollardtherapies), I've been sharing lots of information about understanding language. One area a speech and...

In this entry we will look at working memory, and how it affects language. What is working memory? Imagine trying to remember someone’s...

You’ve probably met a child like this. The one who can’t sit at the table at lunchtime and keeps running off to play with toys. The one...

What it is, why it matters, and how it relates to SLT. Grammar has been hitting the headlines recently. A new National Curriculum was...

Speech and language difficulties in toddlers. I often get calls from parents of young children (age 3 and under) who have concerns about...

In 2020, parents and carers have faced the extraordinary challenge of having to teach their children at home while schools were closed...