Language blog at The Children’s Place: practical tips, activities, and expert advice to build children’s vocabulary, grammar, and everyday communication.

3 Tips for Facilitating Peer Interactions

2025-11-11T23:31:29+00:00May 5th, 2017|

This Scribble was scribbled by Annie Bland (Speech and Language Therapist and Chatty Tots Coordinator at TCP).  Here at the Children’s Place, we run a variety of small groups called ‘Chatty Tots’ to address speech, language and social communication difficulties. Determining whether a child would benefit from group therapy is a complex process based [...]

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More than Words

2025-11-11T00:29:44+00:00April 10th, 2017|

This Scribble was scribbled by Laura Whyte (Speech and Language Therapist at TCP).  You may have previously heard about Hanen Programs, programs such as ‘It Takes Two To Talk’, ‘More Than Words’ or ‘Talkability’. These programs come from the Hanen Centre, a world renowned Centre in Canada for developing specialised programs to help children [...]

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Communication Temptations

2025-11-11T23:57:48+00:00February 3rd, 2017|

This Scribble was scribbled by Trisha Pranjivan (Speech and Language Therapist at TCP) At The Children’s Place, we believe that therapy is most effective when our therapists and parents work as a team to facilitate the development of a child’s communication. Whereas the therapist may only see the child once a week, a parent [...]

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