Talking Matters Blog

Many therapists use play based therapy to develop children’s skills. Sometimes to a parent this may look like the child and therapists are “just playing”. Play is however a powerful tool in developing children’s … Go to full post

My child does not seem to listen to me. What could be the problem? There are lots of reasons why your child may not seem to be listening to you. Often as parents we think our child is choosing not to listen but there are… Go to full post

A number of the Talking Matters team attended a workshop recently with Sue Larkey titled Making it a Success.  Sue is a dynamic speaker with lots of great practical and hands on ideas for working with kids with autism a… Go to full post

Developing Receptive Language before Expressive Language. This post was written by student speech pathologist, Kristen Brown as part of her placement at Talking Matters.What is receptive and expressive language? Why is i… Go to full post

Do you want to develop your child's comprehension skills?One way fun way for younger children is to use information carrying words games. When children are in the early stages of their language development, we meas… Go to full post