Speechtherapyinteractive

05/03/2026

🌈🐻 Makaton Story Time – Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Stories are a wonderful way to support children’s communication, attention and language development. Using Makaton signs alongside a familiar story like Brown Bear helps children connect words with actions, visuals and meaning.
In this full Makaton story, children can learn and practise signs for animals, colours and simple question phrases while enjoying a repetitive and predictable story structure. Repetition helps build confidence and encourages children to join in with the signs and words.
Makaton is a powerful tool for supporting speech, language and communication, and it can benefit all children – not just those with additional needs.
Try signing along with the story and see which signs your child enjoys the most! 🐻🦆🐸🐴
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05/03/2026

📚✨ World Book Day fun! ✨📚
Today we brought the story Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? to life using Makaton signs 🐻🦆🐴
Makaton is a fantastic way to support communication, language development and understanding for many children. Pairing stories with signs helps children engage, join in, and build confidence with communication.
Stories + signs = magic! 💬🤟📖
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23/01/2026

🧠✨ BodySwap & Speech Therapy ✨🕶️
We’re exploring something really special in therapy — using immersive BodySwap-style VR simulations to gently support real-life communication and social skills 💬
With tools like BodySwaps, learners can step into another person’s perspective and practise conversations in a safe, kind, and supportive space — helping to build confidence, connection, and trust in communication. It gives them the freedom to try, make mistakes, learn, and grow — without pressure or judgement 🤍
The VR offers supportive feedback on key communication and social skills, including:
🗣️ what they say (content & structure)
👀 eye contact
🧍 posture & body language
🎵 tone of voice
🤝 social presence, connection & engagement
Many modules include a powerful “body swap” moment — where learners watch themselves from another person’s point of view — gently building insight, self-awareness, confidence, and social understanding.
This gives learners the chance to reflect, learn, and practise again, using repetition to build real skills in a calm, supportive way 🌱
We’re using this approach with young adults with learning difficulties to nurture key social, communication, and life skills, including:
🔹 Interview skills & work readiness
🔹 Conflict management & negotiation
🔹 Social interaction skills
🔹 Active listening & turn-taking
🔹 Presentation & speaking skills
🔹 Perspective-taking & empathy
🔹 Functional communication
🔹 Growth mindset & self-belief
🔹 Leadership skills
This immersive VR approach makes therapy gentle, engaging, safe, and meaningful — helping learners grow in confidence and carry their skills into real-world life, education, and work 🌍✨
Connection. Confidence. Safety. Practice. Growth. Real-life skills.
This is therapy for the real world 💬🧠🤍
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22/01/2026

🍕 Yes — people with dysphagia can still enjoy the foods they love.
This is a personalised picture recipe card I created for a client with dysphagia who wanted one simple thing:
👉 to enjoy pizza again — safely.
Dysphagia is a swallowing difficulty that can affect how someone eats, drinks, and enjoys food. It’s not just about safety — it’s about quality of life, dignity, independence, and choice.
So instead of saying “you can’t have pizza”, we asked:
✨ How can we adapt it safely?
✨ How can we modify texture without removing enjoyment?
✨ How can we keep food familiar and meaningful?
This pizza was adapted to a minced & moist / pureed texture while still keeping:
✔️ familiar flavours
✔️ recognisable structure
✔️ enjoyment
✔️ safety
✔️ dignity
✔️ independence
💬 Real therapy is person-centred therapy
Not just targets and exercises — but real life goals, real food, real routines, and real joy.
Because therapy should never just be about swallowing.
It should be about living.





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31/12/2025

As we welcome the New Year, we would like to extend our sincere thanks to the individuals, families, and professionals we have had the privilege of working alongside.
To the families and loved ones who support, encourage, and advocate every step of the way-your patience, strength, and compassion do not go unnoticed. You play a vital role in progress, recovery, and wellbeing, and it is a privilege to work in partnership with you.
Over the past year, we have witnessed resilience, determination, and meaningful progress across every stage of adulthood. It has been an honour to support communication, swallowing, and quality of life during some of life’s most challenging and transformative moments.
We wish you a New Year filled with good health, hope, connection, and continued progress. Thank you for your trust, collaboration, and commitment to person-centred care.
Warmest wishes,
Speech Therapy Interactive

12/11/2025

Small moments, quiet progress, daily wins.
This is what real-life therapy looks like. 💜
It’s never just a session-it’s a step toward confidence, identity, and connection.


10/11/2025

When people hear “speech therapy,” they often think of pronunciation or children learning new words.
But in adult neuro rehab, it’s so much deeper.
💭 It’s about rebuilding communication after stroke.
💬 It’s about giving families tools to reconnect.
💫 It’s about rediscovering your voice.
I see therapy as human, emotional, and deeply personal — not clinical or cold.


28/07/2025

🌟 Virtual Work Experience Workshop Today! 🌟

I had the absolute pleasure of leading today’s virtual work experience session — and what an inspiring group it was! 💬🧠

I shared my own journey into speech and language therapy, the passion that drives me, and the importance of diversity, inclusion, and providing an equitable service for all. At the heart of it all is our goal: to improve quality of life and patient care through communication and connection. ❤️

We explored the many sides of this incredible profession — from supporting patients across the stroke pathway to working with individuals in the community, and what a day in the life of an SLT really looks like.

We also covered:
✅ Different routes into the profession – uni, apprenticeships, access courses
✅ Personal statement support to make applications shine
✅ Interview tips to help candidates feel confident and prepared
✅ And how to make a difference in one of the most rewarding careers in healthcare

To anyone thinking of becoming a speech and language therapist: your voice matters, your perspective matters — and you can truly change lives. 🙌🏽

12/05/2024

Snippets of a day in a life of being a community SLT ❤️

07/03/2024

Really grateful for the recognition and excited to celebrate with all the incredible women tomorrow at on 💕

Next up, we are spotlighting Tina Kad. Tina is the founder of Speechtherapyinteractive, a private speech therapy practice based in Loughton, Essex. Tina works within her community, with individuals who have suffered from stroke, brain injury or dementia. Tina has expanded her business and created assessment and therapy resources for fellow speech therapists to purchase and use with their patients.

Pic shows Tina at work in her speech therapy office smiling with a client.

15/09/2023

The last therapy reflection from our volunteer Rosie.

We have loved having Rosie join our team and it has been an honour to impart valuable knowledge and experience to prospective students

We are wishing Rosie the best of luck in academia and future career!