Rosetown Speech Therapy Ltd

29/04/2025

Here’s some ideas as to how you can make screen time interactive and facilitate language skills

OPINION: Watching educational TV shows, movies and apps can boost language development.

23/12/2024

Wishing you all a wonderful Xmas and happy new year. Keep safe. We are closed for the year & Amanda will be back in action as of 13th January 2025. Take care & thank you for your support.

09/10/2024

Please donate to Upside Downs if you can. We provide speech language therapy to children & adolescents with Down Syndrome who receive funding from Upside Downs.

💙💛 This Down Syndrome Awareness Month, we need your support to help more kids like William achieve all they can: www.upsidedowns.co.nz/donate

We wish we could have heard William's Kiwi speech! But we'll make do with knowing UpsideDowns helped provide the speech and language therapy that keeps William impressing his mum so much:

"If you had told me a few years ago that would have been his ability I don’t think I would have believed it."

23/09/2024

Celebrating Speech Language Therapy Awareness week

25/06/2024

Many people don’t realise that Development Language Disorder exists and then there’s so many myths about speech and language development. Read the following post.

18/03/2024

Watch Jack Black and follow his advice… turn on subtitles.. it helps children learn to read.

Did you know that just by turning on the subtitles (captions) on children's TV, it can double the chance of a child leaving school a good reader? Jack Blac...

31/10/2023

Happy Halloween. Here’s some tips to help your child’s talking.

Follow the child’s lead in conversations!

Follow the child’s lead means letting children start the conversation and then responding with interest to what they have said or communicated.

When you wait (without speaking) to give children an opportunity to start a conversation, they may communicate with sounds, gestures or words.

Child-led conversations motivate children to communicate, support their language development and are associated with later academic success. Here’s a fun tip to try on the go!

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06/07/2023

Happy Friday. Here is some tips to help engage children on the autism spectrum with interactions. For further help with developing communication skills contact Amanda at Rosetown Speech Therapy.

Children learn a lot about social communication by watching and imitating the people around them. Here are five steps you can follow to help children on the autism spectrum learn to imitate others during fun interactions.

11/05/2023

So exciting to see this news. I am one of the literacy specialists currently being trained in the Better Start for Literacy Approach. The results that children make with this approach is amazing.

The approach has "significantly accelerated growth" in students' foundational literacy skills.