Welcome to Soundswell’s twin blog This is the first part of the story of Finley & Joshua as told by Mum and Dad – Laura and James. The challenge of having 2 (or more) babies at once is indisputable, but there are other things less obvious and perhaps less...
… are not only a 1970s local band (from Coventry) but also a highly skilled and dynamic group of therapists working with Soundswell. Special school work has, in the past been seen by some as the Cinderella of speech and language therapy, but no longer… For us, there...
Joy, hope and aspirations have been stripped away in the blink of an eye. How they must long for the routine – the mundane and the predictability of knowing day will follow night and things will be the same, they will be safe. Whilst the plight of Ukrainians now,...
Within recent weeks I-CAN have published a new report ’Speaking Up for the Covid Generation’. https://ican.org.uk/media/3753/speaking-up-for-the-covid-generation-i-can-report.pdf It paints a worrying picture of nearly 1.5 million children struggling to speak and to...
Closing the Word Gap – two years on Thankfully, for some schools and settings across the city, the rallying call has become more than a transient strap-line which fades away to be replaced by the next ‘must-do’. The battle to improve vocabulary skills will not...
Dummies – saints or sinners? The debate has received a new injection of enthusiasm following a piece of research from Newcastle university: ‘Does the duration and frequency of dummy (pacifier) use affect the development of speech’? (Strutt, C, Khattab,G, and...
