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What is Life Coaching?

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Have you ever wondered about coaching? During Mental Health Awareness week, Hannah Kear, a speech and language therapist and a life coach, tells us about her service – she is fab! Navigating through life’s trails and tribulation can be tricky so Hannah is here to help you. Perhaps lockdown has altered the way you think, …

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Hanen asks, What type of parent are you?

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Nicola Lathey, Speech and Language Therapist from the Owl Centre for Children’s Therapy, talks about a Hanen strategy called “Parenting Styles”. Hanen is a Canadian based company that produce a whole array of interventions and resources for children with Speech and Language delay, Speech and Language disorder and Autism; you may have heard about IT …

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Catherine Parting from The Owl Centre, talks about Copy and Add

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Using the language development strategy, ‘Copy and Add’ can help children to expand their spoken language. Catherine Parting, speech and language therapist from the Owl Centre tells us all about it. Watch the language development strategy, copy and add, video here: Download for free the accompanying handout here. If you need any support with your …

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The Owl Centre Milestone List for Birth to 6 Years

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Knowing what to expect and when with regard to a child’s general development can be very important for helping us to track progress and set targets. This handout covers; attention and listening skills, understanding language, expressive language, speech sounds, social skills, play and oro-motor skills. Please feel free to download this free handout:

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Visualising our day

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…using this amazing visual timetable (that a speech and language therapy student created) has provided us with a much better and much needed structure.  My daughter and I enjoyed making this version and others in our Owl Centre network have been creating their own online versions too. Here is ours: And here is the link …