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Developing Early Attention and Listening Skills in Children with Communication Difficulties
Assisting your child in developing their early attention and listening skills can be a rewarding yet challenging journey. These skills...


The Power of Waiting: Supporting Speech and Language Development
Creating opportunities for your child to respond during interactions is key for building their communication skills. Here's why waiting...


Using Bubbles to Support Speech and Language Development
This is a handout to give you some ideas on how to support your child’s language development using everyday toys. You don’t need to use...


Reading: Boosting Your Child's Speech and Language
Reading books together is one of the most valuable activities you can do with your child to support their speech and language growth....


The SLT Blog: Pointing
Bríd O'Connell, a Speech and Language Therapist at DSCNE, has shared some advice on Pointing. Learning to point is an important...


The SLT Blog: The importance of imitation
Bríd O'Connell, one of the Speech and Language Therapists at DSCNE has given some of her tips on imitation. During the early stages of...


The SLT Blog: Encouraging Speech and Language Development
Hannah O'Neill, one of the Speech and Language Therapists at DSCNE has covered a topic centered around providing parents with ideas for...


The MT Blog: Tiny Tunes
Shane Harvey, our Music Therapist has given some of his tips on Music’s Role in Helping to Develop the Early Communication Skills of...


The SLT Blog: Communication Frustration
Bríd O'Connell, one of the Speech and Language Therapists at DSCNE has given some of her tips on: Dealing with frustration when a child...


What can our Occupational Therapist do for you?
The Occupational Therapy (OT) service can support all ages to develop everyday skills such as playing with toys, holding a cup/spoon,...


Music Therapy & Down Syndrome
We are pleased to bring you the first of our series of Therapists blog posts. Please find below a little more information about what is...
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