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Emily May Speech & Language Therapy

Hi, I’m Emily, a Speech and Language Therapist based in Towcester, Northamptonshire.
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I work with children to develop their speech, language and communication skills.

07/12/2025

Christmas craft ideas🎨✂️

Here are some craft ideas you could try!
- Handprint Christmas trees
- Pom-Pom Christmas wreaths
- Santa beard from cotton balls

Model action words (verbs) such as…
- press
- cut
- stick
- glue

05/12/2025

❗️Speech Sound Tip❗️

Working on the ‘s’ sound? You could model these ‘s’ words at Christmas time…
- snowman
- snow
- star
- Santa
- sleigh

You could play games that involve ‘s’ words, for example…
Snowman snack - pretend to make a snowman food with pretend play items and model words like ‘snow’, ‘scoop’, ‘stir’ and ‘snowman’
⛄️❄️

03/12/2025

Provide opportunities for your child to communicate by offering them choices - and these can be linked to Christmas!

You could ask…
- Red bauble or green bauble?🔴🟢
- Should we sing Jingle Bells or Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer?🎶
- That’s Not my Santa or Dear Santa?📚

Make sure you hold each item choice in your hand if possible, get onto your child’s level and bring forward the item as you name it
🎄✨

01/12/2025

Christmas time is a good opportunity for modelling new language🎄🎅🏽

Here are some sounds, words and phrases you can model when putting up your decorations…
- ho ho ho
- lights
- tinsel
- star on the tree
- big Christmas tree
- red bauble
- lets hang your stocking

08/10/2025

Therapy toy of the week - spinning top!

Why do Speech and Language Therapists love using spinning tops?
Spinning tops encourage children to:

- Problem-solve as they may try to independently use the toys

- Request ‘help’ if they cannot work the toy and/or ‘more’ if they like the toy

- Use/build their anticipation skills as they wait for ‘go’ in ‘ready steady go’

- Hear modelled language during the activity e.g. “turn”, “spin” and “stop”

17/09/2025

Therapy toy of the week - wind up toys!

Why do Speech and Language Therapists love using wind up toys?
Wind up toys encourage children to:

- Problem-solve as they may try to independently use the toys

- Request ‘help’ if they cannot work the toy and/or ‘more’ if they like the toy

- Use/build their anticipation skills as they wait for ‘go’ in ‘ready steady go’

- Hear modelled language during the activity e.g. the name of the toy “witch” or “monkey”, the noise the animal/character may make and functional words of ‘help’ or ‘more’

14/09/2025

❗️Bilingualism ❗️

Did you know..?
- Bilingual children may know fewer words in each language BUT their total vocabulary is the same or better than children learning one language.
- The age of first words, two-word phrases and grammatical development for bilingual children happen within the same age range as children learning one language.
- Code switching (mixing words from both languages in one sentence) is typical for bilingual children.

10/09/2025

Therapy toy of the week - bubbles!

Why do Speech and Language Therapists love using bubbles? Bubbles support a child with:
- Turn taking
- Their awareness of others
- Learning language such as “pop”, “more”, “blow” and “ready steady go”

07/09/2025

Top Tip for boosting your child’s language!

Use your daily routine to support language development by:
- narrating/commenting on what’s happening using language at your child’s language level

For example, at bath time you could model “bath”, “quack quack”, “splash water”, “duck swimming under water”

03/07/2025

☀️Summer Holidays Are Almost Here!☀️

As summer holidays are getting closer, now is the perfect time to give your child that extra boost with private speech and language therapy sessions!

📅 Now booking summer sessions!

I provide: initial assessments, therapy sessions to work on specific goals or review sessions to check how your child is getting on.

Evidence-based, child friendly sessions that are tailored to every individual child💬

📩 Get in touch to discuss or book a session

23/03/2025

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