By The Bay Speech and Language Therapy IOW

By The Bay Speech and Language Therapy IOW India Moores, an SLT helping children on the Isle of Wight reach their full potential 🌟

I’ve invested in an updated version of the Preschool CELF-3 language assessment battery!Some exciting new additions:✨ A ...
03/06/2026

I’ve invested in an updated version of the Preschool CELF-3 language assessment battery!

Some exciting new additions:
✨ A pre literacy rating scale, phonological awareness assessment, and overall early literacy index, which will give an indication of readiness to learn to read for children aged 4-6
✨ An overall academic language readiness index for children aged 3-6, indicating whether a child has the language skills they need to succeed in school
✨ A brand new connected speech sample/narrative assessment, assessing story organisation, story grammar, language structures and recall of facts and details

New assessments are an (eye-watering 😅) investment, but I love the potential they bring to support an even more in-depth analysis of a child’s skills.

Is your child aged 3-6? Do you want to know whether they have the underlying communication and pre-literacy skills needed to support them to thrive at school? Drop me a message to see whether an initial assessment might help 📧

20/05/2026

My top 5 horror movies as a speech therapist 👻

1️⃣ Sensory support isn’t something children should have to earn or be at risk of losing. If a child needs movement, sensory input, or regulation support to access learning, withholding it as punishment is counter-productive. Regulation comes before participation.

2️⃣ Autism doesn’t have one look. Many autistic children learn to force eye contact, mimic peers, or mask their differences to fit in, often at huge emotional cost. Having friends or social motivation doesn’t make a person neurotypical.

3️⃣ If the same intervention hasn’t worked for years, repeating it louder and longer isn’t the answer. Some children need support with language, auditory processing, phonological awareness, memory or broader literacy foundations before phonics can truly stick.

4️⃣ Some children hold themselves together all day at school by masking stress, anxiety, sensory overwhelm and communication difficulties, then completely fall apart at home where they finally feel safe. That isn’t “poor parenting”. It’s a sign the child has been coping beyond capacity all day.

5️⃣ Dyslexia and Developmental Language Disorder frequently overlap, yet many children only get support for reading difficulties while underlying language needs are missed. If we only treat the reading symptoms without understanding the language foundation underneath, we risk leaving children struggling for much longer than necessary.

20/05/2026

Our nursery will open its doors in September 2026, offering a warm, nurturing environment where children can learn, grow, and thrive. We have strong emphasis on learning through play, encouraging curiosity, creativity, and confidence.

Each child will be supported as an individual, ensuring their emotional wellbeing and development are at the heart of everything we do. From engaging activities to a safe and welcoming setting, this nursery is designed to give children the very best start on their early learning journey.

Please email: littlebulbschildcare@gmail.com for more information and to register interest.

We are looking to begin show arounds and visits to the setting at the end of May, keep your eyes peeled for more information and updates as we begin preparing the space for our little bulbs.

17/05/2026

Students at Forest Edge School in Sandown are preparing to launch a half-term fundraising initiative, with handmade products going on sale across the Isle of Wight to raise money for Mountbatten Hospice.

13/05/2026

Three sessions today, three different communication profiles 💬✨

🧩 Inferencing & pragmatic language work with a 12-year-old
🎲 Receptive/expressive language and inferencing support with a 5-year-old
📚 Expressive language therapy with an 8-year-old with a language disorder

Lots of visuals, motivating activities, modelling and interest-led learning along the way 🤍

Hills I will die on 👇
07/05/2026

Hills I will die on 👇

23/04/2026

MY WORK WEEK IN PICS 📸

Lots of low-prep, high-impact activities this week 💪

♾️ WORLD AUTISM DAY ♾️I became a speech and language therapist before I became a mum, but I often reflect on how my life...
02/04/2026

♾️ WORLD AUTISM DAY ♾️

I became a speech and language therapist before I became a mum, but I often reflect on how my life decisions have prepared me to understand and care for these two unique little humans I’ve been blessed with. I’m not sure whether it’s a coincidence or not. But I feel so lucky to advocate for my own and other people’s children every day.

world autism day • autism awareness • autism acceptance month • autistic • ASC • neurodivergent parenting • speech and language therapy • speech therapist • SLCN • Isle of Wight • small business

Celebrating the progress made by this little girl who I have been working with for a while now 🎉 When I met her, she pre...
24/03/2026

Celebrating the progress made by this little girl who I have been working with for a while now 🎉

When I met her, she presented with a very significant language disorder and really struggled to get her message across, make her wants and needs known and join in socially.

Fast forward to today, she is a confident and sociable little girl who seems so much happier in herself! 🎊 Although she still sometimes finds it difficult to ‘find’ the words she wants to use, you can see how much more clearly she is able to communicate.

We’re now moving on to working on higher level language skills such as inferencing and deduction, and understanding non-literal language 💬

language disorder • SLCN • autism • ASC • autistic • speech and language • speech therapy • speech and language therapist • language development • Isle of Wight • small business

🧱 BUILDING SENTENCES 🧱Using colourful semantics, paired with visuals to support choosing the correct auxiliary verb (is/...
03/03/2026

🧱 BUILDING SENTENCES 🧱

Using colourful semantics, paired with visuals to support choosing the correct auxiliary verb (is/are) and pronouns (his/her/their), as well as remembering to use determiners (the, a/an), over 7 sessions so far, I’ve seen this 8 year old’s spoken sentences go from this:

“She reading book”
“Boys eating sandwiches”

To this:

✨ “The woman is reading a book” ✨
✨“The boys are eating sandwiches” ✨

colourful semantics • expressive language • language disorder • DLD • autism • speech and language • speech therapy • speech therapist • Isle of Wight • small business

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