NHSG Aberdeenshire Children's Speech & Language Therapy Service

14/11/2025

🤔 💭 Factual Friday 💭 🤔
Sharing nursery rhymes with little ones supports their language and literacy development 🧡

11/11/2025

⭐️ Top Tip Tuesday ⭐️
It’s World Nursery Rhyme Week this week 💜
✅ Sing nursery rhymes with little ones’ right from the start to support their development 🎶 👶

10/11/2025

👐👌Makaton Monday👌👐
It’s World Nursery Rhyme Week this week💬 🎶
We’d love to see and share videos of Makaton being used with nursery rhymes by children at nurseries, schools, childminders and groups in Aberdeenshire 💜
✅ Tag us in your posts and we’ll share a selection of them over the coming weeks 😀

09/11/2025

🎉 Sunday Funday 🎉
Get ready for World Nursery Rhyme Week by practising this year’s 5️⃣ official rhymes 🎶 💬
For the lyrics and related activity ideas, check out the official website - https://www.worldnurseryrhymeweek.com/swp-ideas/
✅ Sharing rhymes together is a great way to support little ones’ development 🤩

07/11/2025

🤔 💭 Factual Friday 💭 🤔
Have you heard about World Nursery Rhyme Week❓It’s happening next week!
It promotes the importance of sharing nursery rhymes with little ones to support their development 🩷
✅ Register and download your FREE resources today 👀 (https://www.worldnurseryrhymeweek.com)

04/11/2025

⭐️ Top Tip Tuesday ⭐️
Another great tip from our colleagues in Ayrshire & Arran again this month 🧡
✅ Comment, rather than question, to support little ones’ talking skills 💬

03/11/2025

👐👌Makaton Monday👌👐
Check out the FREE Bonfire Night download from The Makaton Charity website 🔥 🎆
✅ How many signs can you learn and use this week when chatting about Bonfire Night❓

02/11/2025

🎉 Sunday Funday🎉
Prolong the Halloween fun 🎃 Check out these inexpensive and easy to make costume ideas from BBC Tiny Happy People 💜
✅ Spending time creating, chatting and playing together will support their development ✂️💭💬

31/10/2025

🤔 💭 Factual Friday 💭 🤔
Did you know that FREE symbolised resources are available to download from Widgit Software❓🧡
✅ Using symbols is a great way to support communication and literacy skills, as well as independence skills 😀

Halloween can be a fun and exciting time, but we know that some children might feel anxious about the decorations, costumes and festivities. 🎃

To help with this, we've created a child-friendly story that explains Halloween traditions, making it easier for kids to feel at ease and ready to join in the fun. 📖

Download your copy: https://www.widgit.com/resources/seasonal/halloween-story-to-help/index.htm 🔗

28/10/2025

⭐️ Top Tip Tuesday ⭐️
Check out these great and inexpensive Halloween themed play ideas for little ones from BBC Tiny Happy People 🎃
✅ Spending time playing and chatting with them will support their speech and language development 💬

27/10/2025

👐👌Makaton Monday👌👐
✅ Check out Singing Hands Halloween playlist on YouTube for lots of great songs and signs 🎃 👻 🕷️
✅ Remember to tag us in any posts with your Halloween signing 🧡🖤

Here's some spooky seasonal songs, rhymes and signs for you to enjoy at Halloween!

26/10/2025

🎉Sunday Funday 🎉
Here are more ideas of how to develop phonological awareness skills (important for speech sound and early literacy development) using a story 📖 Perfect for supporting your little one at home, and for teachers and EYPs in schools and nurseries 😀
This week’s story is...Room on the Broom 🧙‍♀️🧹📖 A perfect story for Halloween 🎃
✅ Draw their attention to the rhyming words - talk about them sounding the same at the end 💬👂
✅ Make glow in the dark broom sticks with glow sticks, paper and string. Put a broom stick in a cup for every word in a short phrase (e.g. witches wear hats’) 🧹
✅ Place an object in a hat for every syllable of a word (e.g. tum-bling’) 🧙‍♀️🖐