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Hi! Welcome to Play on Words Speech and Language Therapy. POW! Instagram: .speechtherapy

is a private speech and language therapy service, working with children aged between 2.5-18 years old.

15/04/2026

❓Does your child repeat phrases they hear? They might repeat lines from their favourite YouTube shoes, or from a book or even things they have heard adults say. This is echolalia.

♾️What is Echolalia?
❌It’s not "meaningless" talk.
✅It is a sign of language growth.
✅ For many Autistic children, they learn language in chunks (phrases/"Gestalts") rather than single words.

🫂Echolalia communicates:
❌Don't take their phrases literally
✅Phrases often have emotional significance and may mean something different.

Tip #1: Acknowledge the Script: ❌Don't correct them or try to stop echolalia.
✅Repeat it back, smile or nod! It shows them: I hear you. You are communicating.

Tip #2: Narrate the Feeling.
✅Work out what they are really trying to say. Are there any patterns of when they use this phrase?
✅If they say a line from a sad scene or song, say "Oh, you're feeling a bit sad right now." You're helping them bridge the gap.

What is your child’s favorite "scripted phrase" right now? Share it below! 👇

💡Worried about your child's speech, language or communication skills? Contact us at www.powspeechtherapy.co.uk

08/04/2026

‼️Parents, stop buying fancy "educational" toys for speech development! These don't teach communication skills.

📦Use everyday items instead! Focus on learning language through playing together and connecting words to what is happening.

1️⃣Take any item, like a cardboard box and think of all the different ways you can play with it.

2️⃣ Prepositions: Hide "in" the box, sit "on" the box, or crawl "under" the box.

3️⃣ Action Words: "Push" the box, "open" the lid, "hide" inside.

4️⃣Questions: "what's" in the box?, "who's next?", "where should we push it?".

📁 Save this post for your next delivery day! 📦 What's your toddler's favorite "non-toy"?

💡Worried about your child's speech, language or communication skills? Contact us at www.powspeechtherapy.co.uk

01/04/2026

‼️Parents, try this to get your child talking!

🦉Here's how to do the O.W.L.S. method. 🦉
-A technique used by speech therapists.

O - Observe. Stop talking and just watch you child. What is your child looking at? What are they trying to reach? What has caught their interest?

W - Wait. This is the hardest part! Give them 5–10 seconds of "expectant silence" to let them try to speak.

L - Listen. Pay attention to small sounds or attempts. Even a grunt is an attempt!

S - Say. Model the word they are trying to reach. "Oh, you want the apple!"

💡Tip: "Model" means we say the word for them NOT ask questions eg. "Do you want the apple?".

👇🏻Try the 10-second wait today and tell me if it worked! ⏳

💡Worried about your child's speech, language or communication skills? Contact us at www.powspeechtherapy.co.uk

25/03/2026

March at POW! 💥

❤️Another busy month with regular speech therapy sessions, new assessments and even some shadowing!

💥Did you know? We also offer online consultations and sessions: perfect for those living outside of Enfield.

💡Worried about your child's speech, language or communication skills? Contact us at www.powspeechtherapy.co.uk

18/03/2026

❓"You're a Speech Therapist? So you do what Ms. Rachel does?

Short answer: NO
Long answer: Read on...

👩🏻‍⚕️A lot of the time, SLTs get compared to Ms. Rachel. We have some similar techniques and she is a great educator but she isn't a replacement for a qualified speech and language therapist.

📺Although your child might pick up some words from screen time, they are learning through imitation which makes it harder to apply what they have learned to different situations.

🗣️Language learning happens best through interaction with real people not a screen or app. Communication grows through back and forth interaction i.e noticing your child's cues and responding to them.

♾️I've also assessed Autistic children, who are Gestalt Language Processors (GLP) and have learned lots of single words from YouTube/parents, but then can't form sentences with them, so they are essentially "stuck" at single words. This is because these types of learners need different techniques which can be taught by a speech therapist trained/specialised in GLPs.

👩🏻‍⚕️A speech and language therapist can assess your child for speech or language delay and give you specific strategies to work on.

💡Worried about your child's speech, language or communication skills? Contact us at www.powspeechtherapy.co.uk

11/03/2026

💥"I want my child to have a back and forth conversation with me"
..Is what I hear from almost every parent I meet.

⁉️So why is your child not having back and forth conversations yet?

❌ONE of the reasons is because the strategies parents have been taught to use like flashcards, constantly prompting your child, doing table activities for conversation skills or taking away favourite items to encourage them to speak, don't improve communication and don't create motivation to want to talk to you.

✅Instead, meet your child's level of communication. Copy their attempts to speak, join in with play, model language at their level, use their interests. Likewise autistic children who use echolalia, need you to acknowledge their scripts and model new ones in a natural way. We need to make learning fun not demanding, in order to encourage communication.

👩🏻‍⚕️A speech and language therapist can assess your child for language delay and give you specific strategies to work on.

💡Worried about your child's speech, language or communication skills? Contact us at www.powspeechtherapy.co.uk

25/02/2026

💥February at POW: 💥

🧮We have been busy with client sessions at home, nursery and school, working on a range of language goals from vocabulary to grammar to gestalt phrases.

🏫Therapy also involves working with those close to the child such as parents and teachers, developing strategies and plans to ensure communication skills are developed in all environments!

💥Keep an eye out on all the fun therapy activities we do at POW by clicking on our "Therapy BTS" highlights on our Instagram page .speechtherapy 💥

💡Worried about your child's speech, language or communication skills? Contact us at www.powspeechtherapy.co.uk.

02/02/2026

🎉Pow! January highlights: 🎉

1. Lovely parent feedback from Play On Words Speech & Language Therapy sessions and reports : These make my day ❤️

2. I was grateful to be invited to be a SEND consultant at Sendsational Wellbeing Events - a morning of activities, stalls and advice for SEND families in Enfield.

3. Some goals we worked on in therapy this month: GLP stage 1, stage 2, and stage 3 therapy, modelling AAC and hearing aid support. My time this month has been spent doing therapy in schools, homes and report writing. There was also time for a SEN event and clinical supervision with some SLT colleagues.

4. Trialling new resources like an AI platform for speech therapy games. I've been making personalised, interactive resources like social stories, pronouns quizzes and colourful semantics games. These have been sent as home work practice and shared with teachers.

5. New assessments and clients- we are now at full capacity! The contact form on my website will reopen when there is availability (www.powspeechtherapy.co.uk).

It's been a great start to 2026, we look forward to supporting you this year!

Ceylan x

20/01/2026

💥This is why your child might not be following your instructions...

💥Key words in instructions are the essential words you use which carry meaning. For the instruction "show me the teddy", your child only needs to understand one word: teddy.

💥As they get older they need to follow harder, longer instructions and so need to understand more "key words".

💥Key words are NOT the number of words in the sentence. The key words require a choice to be made i.e the child needs to choose a teddy over the other toys in order to follow the instruction correctly.

❓Why they are important (especially in speech therapy)?

1️⃣Develop Language Skills: Helps children build understanding for more complex sentences.

2️⃣Assess Understanding: Speech therapists use key word levels (1-word, 2-word, etc.) to gauge a child's ability to follow instructions of increasing complexity.

3️⃣Support Learning: By focusing on key words, adults can structure instructions to help children practice choosing the correct items or actions.

👩🏻‍⚕️A speech and language therapist can help you figure out if your child is able to follow instructions (as well as other receptive language tasks) appropriate for their age.

💡Worried about your child's speech, language or communication skills? Contact us at www.powspeechtherapy.co.uk.

14/01/2026

👶🏻Children typically start forming 2 words sentences once they have enough single words (about 50!). We expect two-word sentences around 2 years old.

🤱🏻Encourage your child by adding one more word onto the words they already say. Remember to vary the type of words you add. Don't just add "please" onto words.

🗣️We don't need to make them repeat us (resist the urge to tell them to "say..") and instead model language naturally in daily activities or playtime.

💡Worried about your child's speech, language or communication skills? Contact us at www.powspeechtherapy.co.uk.

10/12/2025

❓Did you know there are two types of language development? It's important to know how your child is learning so that we can use the right strategies to support them.

⬆️At the top we see Analytic development-most people are familiar with this style. We use single words to grow your child's vocabulary.

⬇️At the bottom we see gestalt development. We use phrases, intonation and acknowledgement to grow your child's gestalts (phrases).

👩🏻‍⚕️A speech and language therapist can help you figure out if your child is an analytic or gestalt language processor.

💡Worried about your child's speech, language or communication skills? Contact us at www.powspeechtherapy.co.uk.

26/11/2025

🔎Look what we have been working on at Play On Words Speech and Language Therapy this term:

1. Gestalt Language Processing: Stage 1 with goals to increase different types of stage 1 gestalts.

2.Gestalt Language Processing: Stage 2 with goals to help the child to mitigate gestalts.

3. Language delay with goals for vocabulary, sentences and attention/listening.

4. Language delay with goals for basic grammar and word types (verbs/adjectives/adverbs).

5. Social/emotional with goals to increase confidence with conversation skills.

💡Worried about your child's speech, language or communication skills? Contact us at www.powspeechtherapy.co.uk.

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