What does speech therapy look like? That’s a difficult question to answer.  

It’s an interaction between two people, a connection, but at its core is a fun, trusting relationship.

 

What you see will vary, but what you will hear is laughter.

 

It starts with an honest conversation - what’s easy, what’s difficult.  

For me, that’s writing and remembering. I explain I need to write things down so that I don’t forget.

 

It takes a bit of time. But silence gives time for thoughts, ideas, and words to form.  

For confidence to emerge, for shared understanding to grow and interaction to blossom.

 

That funny face I’m pulling is my thinking face. I’m remembering how to write something in phonetics.  

It’s about me. It’s not about what you did, or said, or how you said it.

 

Let me show you what I am doing and explain why.  

“Let’s write your name in phonetics.”

 

We have a conversation about the link, or sometimes lack of it, between sounds and letters.  

Then I show you what I wrote: all the words you know and the sounds you can say.

 

We talk about the trickier sounds, how they are made, and why they are trickier.  

Then we have a go, working together to figure out what works best for you.

 

It’s okay to say, “I don’t know. I don’t understand.”  

It means I haven’t found the right way of explaining it yet.  

It means we try something different.  

It means we learn something new, together.