Word Wise Therapy

18/12/2024

Wishing all my clients a very Merry Christmas and a relaxing break. Thank-you for your business and your trust in 2024🎄

22/02/2024

Congratulations Sally Rippin named Australian Children's Laureate for 2024, 2025 - You are a wonderful writer of children's books. You have hooked by son, bolstering his confidence with your early chapter books.

Sally Rippin, the Australian Children's Laureate, shares her mission and goals for 2024 and 2025. Sally's theme for her two years is 'All kids can be readers...

14/11/2023

Such a fab website to help you use your child's love of books to target their speech-sound and language goals. Check out Book Share https://booksharetime.com/books #

Find some of the best children's books for speech therapy. All books are compiled by a Speech Pathologist and grouped by language areas, speech sounds, themes and ages.

31/01/2023

Is someone in your house learning to read? I wonder if they're bringing home decodable texts or repetitive texts? Alison Clarke - SLP - makes salient in this video the differences and WHY it's an important distinction. If YOUR child is struggling to read, an SLT can help support them with the five key elements of reading in a structured and systematic way.
https://youtu.be/jiyzP3j7jbk

Predictable or repetitive texts are picture books for beginners or strugglers containing a lot of spelling complexity, which children are encouraged to attem...

10/01/2023

Our Brains - So Amazing. Reading isn't an intrinsically built skill waiting to unfold. We need strong language skills, specific-skilled teaching and our brain's neuroplasticity to achieve this complex process.

👀📖 Reading (and writing) are 𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙪𝙖𝙜𝙚 𝙗𝙖𝙨𝙚𝙙 processes. This is a brilliant 4 minute video which explains, in a straightforward way, how the brain develops pathways which enable skilled reading.
🎯 youtu.be/A2HHrKpjlYM
Video by Hill Learning Center 👏🏼

02/02/2022

20/10/2021

Do you find helping your child learn to read confusing sometimes? Are you second guessing your own pronunciation of sounds? Watch this SLT - Emma Nahna from Sound Foundations (and her assistant) guide you through the sounds of NZ English. Remember, some sounds can't be stretched and avoid adding an "uh" to many of the individual consonants you're modeling E.g., "b" not "buh." You can always contact an SLT for more support with literacy development.

Kia ora! We've made this video to help you learn:1) What all the consonant and vowel phonemes (sounds) of NZ English are; and 2) How to say them clearly when...

24/07/2021

Can't wait to see this documentary to help deepen my understanding of Autism. The trailer for 'The Reason I Jump,' was enough to give me chills. David Mitchell (Think Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas) has completed the translation from the original Japanese version and interestingly, he also has a stutter he's learned to control.

When David Mitchell's son was diagnosed with autism at three years old, the British author and his wife Keiko Yoshida felt lost, unsure of what was happening inside their son's head. In an effort to find answers, Yoshida ordered a book from Japan written by non-verbal autistic teenager Naoki Higashi...

09/07/2021

19/10/2014

How one boy with autism became BFFs with Apple's Siri - Shared form the NY times

28/09/2014

Soulful Sunday - Perusing the web for inspiration, found this little nugget.

Allison Woyiwada, 62, regains ability to speak with melodic intonation therapy following an uncommon brain surgery to remove an aneurysm putting her at risk for stroke.

12/09/2014

Lovely story, thanks to Playing with Words 365 for posting!

Check out this video of this inspiring man born with Cerebral Palsy. He overcomes his articulation difficulty to express himself in an absolutely incredible way.