Eve has been supporting a learner to understand and regulate their emotions using the Zones of Regulation. He loves Mr Men, so chose a character for each zone when he made a poster for his classroom 🎨

Leah has been supporting her speech sound group with their front and back sounds. Before working on production, the children have been working on their discrimination skills. This helps children to hear and tell the difference between sounds, words and meaning 🐸 👂

Natasha recently attended the Northwest Speech and Language Practitioner Day. It was an amazing opportunity to meet other SLT's and learn more about national updates, bilingualism and GLP 💚

Rose has been using a mirror with a little on who is working on using sounds made at the front of the mouth eg. the /t/ sound. Using mirrors during speech work helps children to build self awareness and understand how their lips, mouth and tongue move during speech. This enables

Summer term is a great time to introduce ice cream fun in to therapy! 🌞 Whilst working on the 'FL' sound, Natasha also talked about ice cream flavours and chocolate flakes to support generalisation in conversation 🍨

At Speech Leap we are passionate about supporting our therapists. In our latest Team Meeting we looked at the differences between Line Management and Clinical Supervision and introduced our exciting changes for September 💚

Natasha has been using Elklan EYBIC Word Pack resources whilst delivering early language groups in school. This activity has helped to target vocabulary building, key word comprehension and prepositions all in one go 🏘️

We recently received training from Kirsty at Wordful on 'Trauma Informed SLT Practice. It was a fantastic day's training looking into current research on the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences, top tips for assessment and therapy and strategies which we can share with settin

Natasha received a lovely thank you card and some beautiful flowers from one of the schools she has been working with this year. It's great to hear our support is making a difference 💐

Rose has been supporting Year 6 with their transition to secondary school. They have looked at timetables and discussed strategies to be able to read and understand them. They have also practised packing a school bag and recording homework in a homework diary! Good luck to Year 6

Leah has been supporting a little one to produce the final sounds of words. This week we have focused on the final 't' and used the crocodile game as a motivator. The child is encouraged to feed the word to the crocodile and produce a sentence focusing the final 't' sounds (e.g.

Leah has been supporting her speech sounds group with their front and back sounds. Before working on production, the children have been working on their discrimination skills. This helps children to hear and tell the difference between sounds, words and meanings (e.g. 'tea' vs 'k

Summer packs all ready to go! Eve has been busy putting together home activity packs. Each one is tailored to a child’s individual goals with fun and practical ideas to help keep progress going over the holidays. ☀️

We had a team 'well-being MOT' activity during this month's team meeting. It was a great opportunity to pause, check in, and support each other as a team 💚

Developing self-awareness and self-advocacy skills is an important part of our secondary school transition support. Natasha and Sarah have recently helped a year 6 pupil to complete a 'how to help me' poster following the completion of the Memory Magic programme ⭐

We are now closed for the Summer, we hope everyone we have worked with this academic year has a lovely break... See you in September 🌞

Just before we finished for Summer, Leah is our first Stat Therapist of the half term. She won this award for the overwhelming positive feedback she has received from her schools, excellent clinical skills demonstrated during observation, her increased confidence and contribution

This summers team day was at Flight Club in Manchester, where the team got to celebrate the end of term playing darts and a meal out 🎯

We would like to wish Rose and Becky the most incredible congratulations on their weddings during this summer holidays. We are so excited to hear about their big days.

Our second induction day included practical sessions around assessment & an introduction to how our school partnerships are delivered. Our therapists all have an assessment kit bag at the ready & are excited to meet the children, families & staff at their new schools in September