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How to get pre-schoolers excited about maths
Encouraging age-appropriate activities that build early familiarity with numbers and counting is crucial for mathematical development.
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What does a speech and language therapist do?
The aim of therapy is to work on a person’s areas of challenge, and to help them be productive, functional…
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Google won’t help your child understand words
Google may be bursting with facts, but the language expressing those facts are not always suitable for your child’s age…
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Protect your child from noise-induced hearing loss
Noise can pose a serious threat to a child’s physical and psychological health, including learning and behaviour.
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Phonological Awareness – The stepping stones to reading
Learning to read is a complicated process. Children have to be able to hear and identify individual sounds in speech;…
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Learning and Teaching a Second Language
Research shows that having a strong hold of one’s home languages facilitates the learning of any new language. Other research…
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Can educational DVDs help my baby learn to read?
DVDs designed to increase phonetic awareness in babies and toddlers are not effective in boosting cognitive development, say researchers.
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How – and why – baby talk encourages brain development
Talking to your infant activates crucial synapses in the language-processing area of their brain and helps set the path for…
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Speech development hacks to get your child talking
While parents always look forward to their child’s first words, it's important to acknowledge that speech development varies for each…
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How to stimulate your child’s speech development
Being listened, and spoken, to is what your child needs most to stimulate speech development.
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Does my child need speech therapy?
If you are concerned about your child’s speech development, it’s best to talk to a professional about speech therapy.
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