Claire R

Concept Cat: Teaching Concepts in the Early Years Conceptual vocabulary shapes children’s thinking in the Early Years and forms the foundation for later mathematical and scientific learning. However, these words are abstract and often tricky to learn...

It is an inclusive approach. Yet to find a child who doesn't respond.

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Concept Cat — Lift Lessons

Animations here liftlessons.co/conceptcat
Assessment and result results coming soon!

Flicking through some of the most joyful Concept Cat raps/songs on YouTube. Such a fun, engaging way to develop vocab! I can see this being a really useful approach for some of my gestalt language processors too (esp those at Stage 3 & beyond). Definitely worth checking out! @wordaware.bsky.social

Thanks! It’s a great way to switch off/de-stress. I’m on AL this week and have spent the morning making mermaid hair!

Deal!

Ah, thanks Jayne!

That’s what my family said, but my day job uses up all my brain power, so this is just for fun!

Hey you! Hope you’re doing ok R xx

That’s very kind, but the truth is that I either find an outlet for my creations or I need a bigger house!

That’s a good point. I’ve contacted a local homeless charity asking if they might be able to donate/sell to raise funds.

It really has flown by. Dinky was 1 in Feb & she’s almost as sassy as her big sister now! 💜

Thank you! I think he’s going to be very loved!

I’d really like to make a few things for a charity (or similar) - any ideas?

Does anyone know of a charity or something similar I could make toys for? (puppets/teddies, etc)

I’ve also made him red wellies & a mini umbrella and a matching red hat - toddler sized for her to wear, but had to force myself to wrap it all up this morning because I don’t think I’d have stopped!

Still completely addicted to crocheting so I thought I’d make Paddington bear (& some of his many outfits!) for my granddaughter’s 3rd birthday. Really pleased with how these turned out 💜

Following yesterday's #NAPLIC25 conference we noticed lots of new people on BlueSky. This DLD starter pack will link you up with lots of top #DevLangDis people.
Welcome!

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📣🗣️💜 We’re excited to launch our new webpage focused on Developmental Language Disorder (DLD).
Let’s raise awareness and support those living with DLD! 🌱
#DLD #DevlLangDis #DevelopmentalLanguageDisorder
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I mentioned them / the book / resources to the 2 SENCOs but I don’t work on Fridays so haven’t had a chance to look myself yet. Although I’ve got all of the other WA books & I’ve no doubt this is just as excellent!

Excellent @wordaware.bsky.social workshop today, jam packed with fun, engaging ideas to help build children’s vocabulary - already emailed 2 SENCOs to recommend they sign up!

Power and practice: A critique of evidence-based practice for the profession of speech-language pathology Published in Advances in Speech Language Pathology (Vol. 6, No. 2, 2004)

Excellent article for all SLTs/SLPs regardless of speciality / areas of interest #WeSpeechies

"They don't realize how hard he has to try every day". A team of researchers have listened to caregivers' experience of parenting a child with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). I think lots of you will find this interesting. You can read the article here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Looking forward to some @wordaware.bsky.social training that’s happening in my team soon AND apparently you’re running it Stephen!

3 schools handed out 2,408 fixed term exclusions in one term??

Also, agree, it isn’t a new concept at all, it’s just explained very well & fundamental to the approach a lot of children need - including the majority on my caseload who are gestalt language processors/AAC users, so I spend a lot of time explaining/modelling these things!

Oh this is great! Thank you for sharing, I think I’ll be using it a lot!

I think the examples alone are well worth the money! Only thing I’d change is the subtext & references to ‘social learning challenges’ as I’d imagine that might put some ppl off.

Highly recommend this book for anyone working with children/YP who don’t do well with ‘demands’ - it’s also full of simple examples of how to put the strategies into practice in everyday contexts (plus it’s only £7:50 on Amazon!)

Well said! 👏👏👏👏

This is utterly dehumanising and it has to stop.

On empty, redundant or pointless systematic reviews Click on the article title to read more.

Read a few of these ‘Empty reviews’ recently.
“over time, the discourse gets more meaningless and irrelevant to the actual work of applying all that we can know to accomplish that which is our discipline's social mandate”
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