Jj is for Jottings 148.  Other Effects of Noise. Most of us know about the effects of noise on our hearing, discussed in the previous post.  Spending much time in noisy environments can cause long-term damage to your hearing.  Examples are working in a noisy factory or living near an airport.  Exposure to loud music […]

Jj is for Jottings 148.  Other Effects of Noise. Most of us know about the effects of noise on our hearing, discussed in the previous post.  Spending much time in noisy environments can cause long-term damage to your hearing.  Examples are working in a noisy factory or living near an airport.  Exposure to loud music […]

Jj is for Jottings 152.  The Effects of Watching Violence. Did you know that the effects of watching violence are different from the effects of simply reading about violence?  Researchers consistently find that, the more often you watch disturbing scenes, the more anxious you become.  This can result in forming long-term traumatic memories.  Your brain […]

Jj is for Jottings 152.  The Effects of Watching Violence. Did you know that the effects of watching violence are different from the effects of simply reading about violence?  Researchers consistently find that, the more often you watch disturbing scenes, the more anxious you become.  This can result in forming long-term traumatic memories.  Your brain […]

Jj is for Jottings 137.  Auditory Processing Disorders. Following on from auditory skills and developing auditory processing skills, we now turn our attention to auditory processing disorders.  There are so many conflicting ideas in the literature as to exactly what constitutes auditory skills. One could really become bogged down by this and therefore any resulting […]

Jj is for Jottings 93.  Consonant Clusters. Consonant clusters, or blends, can cause problems when analysing sounds  and blending.  Children with speech, language or literacy problems often have difficulty in detecting the second sound in a consonant cluster.  I mentioned this in a previous article on blending sounds.  Children who can easily analyse a consonant-vowel-consonant […]

Jj is for Jottings 151.  Daily Reading Time. Daily reading time for children is much more important than just reading books leading to a longer life.  It makes sense that children who read more have better vocabulary, reading skills, fluency, reading comprehension and overall literacy. It can also strengthen family relationships and helps children to […]

Jj is for Jottings 128.  Hard and Soft ‘C’ and ‘G’. The great thing about spelling rules – such as the bossy ‘e’ rule – is that, once you learn a particular rule, you can read (and hopefully spell) many different words.  In other words, rules give you lots of bang for your buck.  When […]

Petra’s foot after David had done her toenails (ped=”foot” + filed her toenails. They’re actually cut rather than filed, but I couldn’t resist the pun.) Jj is for Jottings 43.  Children or Feet?  Using the Right Root. I’ve decided it’s time to air one of my pet language peeves because it crops up so frequently […]

Jj is for Jottings 152.  The Effects of Watching Violence. Did you know that the effects of watching violence are different from the effects of simply reading about violence?  Researchers consistently find that, the more often you watch disturbing scenes, the more anxious you become.  This can result in forming long-term traumatic memories.  Your brain […]

Jj is for Jottings 56.  3 More Techniques for Helping Your Child’s Language. We used all these language techniques with our “children”, but it seems that they still have too much screen time. This follows on from Jottings 55, so you will need to read that first. (See https://educatingalpacas.com/general-language-stimulation-technique-1-modelling/).  I decided to combine the last […]

Jj is for Jottings 139.  Speech Sound Problems:/s/. Probably one of the first sounds that springs to mind when one thinks of speech sound problems would be /s/ and, more specifically, a lisp.  (Remember that the slashes / / mean that we pronounce the sound; ‘s‘ or s means to say the letter name.  I […]

Signing books outside Dymocks, Albury. With thanks to David Lewis of Dymocks, who kindly offered the book-signing, And to all of those people who visited me there. Jj is for Jottings 14. Royal Children’s Hospital Survey. I heard a report on the ABC news on December 2nd, and grabbed a pen and paper as it […]

Jj is for Jottings 139.  Speech Sound Problems:/s/. Probably one of the first sounds that springs to mind when one thinks of speech sound problems would be /s/ and, more specifically, a lisp.  (Remember that the slashes / / mean that we pronounce the sound; ‘s‘ or s means to say the letter name.  I […]