Families all over the world are adjusting to life in isolation during the COVID Pandemic. With many parents now working from home there is a big shift in thinking about how we are spending our time and supporting our little ones to continue learning and growing. There has been a plethora...
April is Autism Awareness Month Instead of educating the community about the challenges of people on the autism spectrum we wanted to shed some light on some of their contributions. The future relies on diverse and out of the box thinking and many people on the spectrum have used their differences to...
At small TALK speech therapy we are well known for using the evidence based principles of Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA). In this blog post we'll share with you what ABA is and how it can help your child. What is ABA? Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) is not a therapy in itself, but a...
Many parents understand the importance of book reading each day with their child but...
What's so important about play? Play isn't just great for occupying kids so that you can get the chores done. It's really important for child development. "Toys are children's words and play is their language." Newcastle Play Therapy Play helps children learn so many life skills, here are just a few: problem-solving skills expression ...