The Communication Workshop

Our social communication group went to the jungle this week! We had fun telling our friends all about the animals we found using the ‘Wh?’ questions (Who? What? Where? When? Why?)

Lots of fun making trees today! 🌲🌳🌴Taking turns, sharing resources, waiting and listening, describing where things go and being creative

Would you like to know more about how to support a child with social communication differences? Come along to our interactive workshop run by Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapists in our clinic base in Orpington. For more information, please contact the clinic on [email protected] or give us a call on 01689 503075/07984314433

We had lots of fun drawing around our bodies to make pictures of ourselves in the language group. We then chose items to decorate our self portraits which represented us! Interactive fun and lots of language opportunities too!

This may be useful when our families are out and about next week ….😋

If you'd like to book a space on our interactive workshop about visual support systems, please send us an email on [email protected]
Further details are in the flyer below 👇

Exciting news 🎉 We are thrilled to be welcoming Charlie Strutt, Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to our team! She has a wealth of knowledge, expertise and experience working with children with speech sound disorders. She will be joining the team one day a week (a Friday) and we know her skills will further complement our established team. If you are concerned about your child's speech sound development and would like to book an assessment with Charlie, please contact our Clinic base to arrange this

Some wonderful feedback from one of the Parents who attended our 'More than picky' behavioural feeding workshop last night. We are passionate about supporting families and so we're very happy to hear such a positive review:
"I attended the More than Picky workshop run by Debra and Claire. I was very apprehensive before attending this workshop as I have a lot of parental anxiety around feeding and mealtimes with my son which are starting to have a negative effect on our family. Debra and Claire were so welcoming and created a safe environment where we could discuss our concerns without fear of judgement.

Debra not only has a wealth of knowledge around the SOS approach to feeding but she too had a picky eater and could empathise with us.

I feel like the workshop was a true lightbulb moment for me – I have come away with so much helpful information and feel empowered to change the way we approach feeding and mealtimes in our home. As Debra says "food is fun" and I'm looking forward to making sure it is in our family!" ☺️

Busy day delivering training today! Amy and Nicky were in a secondary school delivering an interactive workshop around a pupil's EHCP support as part of their staff inset training day. Debra and Claire were working late this evening delivering the 'More than picky' behavioural feeding workshop in our Clinic base. Lots of great feedback all round!

Last chance to book on our interactive 'more than picky' feeding workshop tomorrow evening in our clinic base. Come along and learn about the steps to eating, why some children struggle to eat a range of foods and how to support them to increase the number of foods in their repertoire. To book a space, please call the office tomorrow morning

Wishing all our families who celebrate Eid a happy, peaceful and enjoyable time celebrating with friends and family! Eid Mubarak!

Our team will be enjoying a break over the Easter weekend so our clinic will be shut from today and will reopen on Tuesday morning. Wishing you all a pleasant Easter weekend

The team at The National Literacy Trust have designed a Walk and Talk trail for parents/carers of children from 0-5 years old. Have a look at the link below and see how you can join in with the fun!

Walk and talk trail for 0-5 year olds | National Literacy Trust The set of cards are designed to support parents and carers of 0 to 5-year-olds to talk and play more with their children while they are out and about.

Check out this progress checker from Speech and Language UK. A good way for parents/carers and professionals to screen any child's speech and language skills. If you are concerned about a child's speech and language development, please feel free to get in touch with our team

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Just some of the amazing new games sent us! We can't wait to start playing with them!

It wasn't just the teddies who got to eat birthday cake today! Happy birthday to our clinic base! One year of having our own space and growing as a team and business

Wishing you all a Happy International Women's Day!

Debra and Nicky celebrating World Book Day!

Welcome to Lee Smith, registered Play Therapist. Lee works from our centre at the weekend and some evenings. If you feel your child would benefit from Lee's support, please get in touch with him via his social media platforms, QR code below or his website 🤩😊

Autistic people held back by job interview questions - report Unfair hiring practices and outdated attitudes are among barriers autistic people face, a review says.

Do you want to be able to offer a more inclusive workplace? At The Communication Workshop we are passionate about supporting employers to provide supportive and inclusive businesses and workplaces. We have experience in delivering workshops and training to a range of businesses and workplaces, sharing strategies aimed at supporting neurodivergent employees, colleagues and service/business users. If you would like to discuss your training needs, please get in touch with us! We'd love to help make your workplace a more inclusive place to be!

Autistic people held back by job interview questions - report Unfair hiring practices and outdated attitudes are among barriers autistic people face, a review says.

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Constipation is a problem for 1 in 3 children. It commonly starts around the potty training stage and can also affect babies.

It is a medical problem that needs treating properly to stop it getting worse. Constipation won’t go away by itself.

👀 Keep an eye out for daily posts this week, talking about the common causes, the signs to look out for and how to relieve constipation in your child.

Sharing in case this is of interest to any of our followers

Comparing Parent & Teacher Perspectives of the Wellbeing of Children with ADHD

Participants can also directly access the links to the studies here:

Parents: https://uws.questionpro.com/kidscreen27parentproxi

Teachers: https://uws.questionpro.com/stirlingchildrenwellbeingscale

Commissioned by University of the West of Scotland

Some of the activities Rachel did with her children last week. Sequencing, language work and some speech sound work too!

We're delighted to announce an online training session focusing on supporting children with social communication differences. The aim of the session being online is to make it as accessible as possible to as many people as possible. If you'd like to book a space, please get in touch with us via email or a message