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Speech bubbles offers therapy services for persons with a range of speech and language difficulties at the comfort of your own home. One notable area they specialise in is social communication difficulties, where they teach children to encode and decode literacy elements in a social interaction context. This relates to the listening and speaking element under the National Literacy Learning Progression (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority [ACARA], 2020). Part of their service also includes empowering caregivers with skills to identify teachable moments at home.

Parents empowerment and ability to guide their child is crucial in helping them overcome their communication difficulties (Alias & Ramly, 2021). The home-based therapy service helps families to make the right modifications that creates a optimal learning environment for the child. Through close partnership with the family, the therapist empowers family members with ideas and skills curated for the child reach their social communication goals.

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Speech Therapy For Toddlers & Kids | Singapore Home-Based Services

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Providing quality speech therapy to your child in the convenience of your home. Registered & experienced therapists. Proven to be engaging & effective with toddlers, children and adolescents. Get help for language delays, speech difficulties, autism, global developmental delay, ADHD. Contact us today.

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The video provides teachers and parents ideas to spice up their children's writing experiences through multi-sensorial activities. These activities engages the different senses to develop writing skills such as manipulating writing materials, letter forms and its formation. With almost all the materials easily found in your household, these activities are easy to carry out and fun for your child. These activity ideas relates to the writing element on the National Literacy Learning Progression (ACARA, 2020).

These ideas actively involve children in their learning through a range of activities that stimulate different senses. According to Rees & Newton (2020), in order for a person to interpret and understand new information well, the brain functions at its optimal level when it integrates information from all senses. Through these hands on activities, children are able to retain the information better and enjoy the process of learning to write.

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How to play:
1. Set the images on the cubes to your preference before telling your story.
2. Begin telling a story based on the images.

This resource allows adults to engage children in a playful manner by taking turns to tell stories based off visuals on a cube. This set of cubes can give you endless hours of fun coming up with potential goofy stories together with your child. It allows children to develop their expressive language, while enhancing listening skills as they make meaning of the stories shared. The skills involved in this game relates to the listening and speaking element under the National Literacy Learning Progression (ACARA, 2020).

This method of developing children's language is supported by Bardige (2016), who encourages playful interactions between adults and children as they are able to learn and practice sophisticated sentence structures and develop skills to create fictional stories and construct reality based explanations (p.129) .

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We are getting ready for our summer road trip . We will drive through few European countries to visit our family. We do plan many stops on the way to visit different places and have a rest. But for Mr Frog that means long hours in a car seat anyway.

I try to think of some ideas to entertain Mr Frog during this long trip. And guess what? I try to think of ideas to do it without car DVD, Leap Pad or tablet!

We love . Our Silhouettes Storytelling set is great and we use it often but it is not a travel set for sure ;) But making a storytelling travel set is easier than you think!

- 3-4 wooden cubes with holes (if you are in UK you can buy some HERE, but I'm sure you can find such cubes in any shop selling the wooden craft shapes)

- paints (if you want to paint your pictures) or pictures from magazines and glue (if you look for an easier option)

Now you just need to decide what would you like to put . I'm not an illustrator or designer but my skills are good enough for Mr Frog ;)

On each cube I painted different type of objects: buildings, characters, transport vehicles, animals and creatures.

When the cubes are ready just thread the pipe cleaner through the holes and secure the ends using the beads. Put it in your bag, take with you anywhere and :) Easy :)

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We are getting ready for our summer road trip . We will drive through few European countries to visit our family. We do plan many stops on the way to visit different places and have a rest. But for Mr Frog that means long hours in a car seat anyway.

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How to play: The first person calls out a food on the table and you go around the table calling out words that rhymes with it. When unable to think of a rhyming word, that person calls out a new food on the table.

The game provides the opportunity for children to practice their rhyming skills in a safe space with their family members. Children will need to listen to the words and identify the sounds within that word. After which, they need to find a new word that has the same identified sound. This relates to the listening and phonological awareness under the the National Literacy Learning Progression (ACARA, 2020).

Phonological awareness is a foundation for language acquisition (Mullen, 2017). This means that children need to understand that words are made up of different sounds and phonemes. Through rhymes games, children become aware of the different sounds within spoken words.

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How to play: The first player writes a word and passes it on to the next play who will draw their impression of the word. Players will alternate writing and drawing their impression of the text from the previous player.

This game is great for families who loves a great laugh. It encourages children to be as detailed in their drawings and explanations to relay the most accurate information. Through this game, children use decoding skills to understand the given text (written/drawn). Next, they learn to encoding the same information in a different form of text(drawn/written). At the same time, it reinforces handwriting skills through the writing or drawing process. This relates to the handwriting, spelling, creating texts and understanding texts elements under the National Literacy Learning Progression (ACARA, 2020).

According to Hamer and Lely (2019), literacy learning should be done in a creative manner so that learners do not get bored. When learning is presented in the form of play, it increases their interest and motivation to learn a particular skill (Hamer and Lely,2019). Besides developing the children's literacy skills, it develops their creative thinking as well. This game is able to integrate the use of various literacy skills and combine them into a fun game for children to practice and hone their skills in creating different forms of texts.