How speech sounds develop
A table showing how speech sounds usually develop.
Toolkit Resources
How to be an Echolalia detective
Advice around how to tune in to Echolalia
How to help your child’s speech
Advice and strategies for helping children practice the sounds they are working on.
Intensive Interaction pack
Advice and information about intensive interaction, who it helps and how to do it.
Learning new words
An advice sheet about learning new words and ideas on how to support this.
Learning to chew
Advice to support children who are beginning to chew but are not doing this consistently
Learning words in play
Advice on how to support your child to learn new words in play.
Match and stretch advice sheet
Our advice sheet to help children who using no words or only a few words. Use alongside our talking wheel resource
Minimal pairs
An activity to help children listen for sounds in words. Working on minimal pairs helps children with sounds they find tricky to say
More difficult textures
Information about common foods children can find tricky to manage.
Moving from smooth to lumpy foods
Advice on how to support your child to move between textures in small steps
Negatives
An advice sheet talking about how to model negatives in play.