Speech and Language Therapy Archives - Page 12 of 12 - Resource Library - Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust

What are people games? People games are physical games you play with your child without any toys, for example, tickling and chasing. Why are people games so great for communication and interaction? There are lots of opportunities for your child to take a turn as they are repetitive and predictable....

What is understanding and managing feelings? Some children have gaps in their vocabularies for ‘feelings words’. This means that they can struggle to know and communicate how they feel. This can make it hard for them to manage feelings which can impact on their behaviour. We can use strategies...

When your child starts at their new secondary school, they will come across some new words that they may not have heard before. At secondary school, there are some new lessons that they won’t have done before or that may have different names to ones they used at primary, for example, food...

Simplify questions Questions that require the young person to summarise and retell can be too hard, for example, asking “Tell me what happened”. This requires the young person to ‘read-between-the-lines’ and understand what you might be referring to, pick out the important parts of an...

What is scaling and regulating emotions and behaviours? The use of a visually supported scale to teach a child to recognise different levels of emotion. The scale breaks down the child’s responses to the different levels of emotion by labelling each level with what the behaviour looks like and...