Category: LANGUAGE

Late Talker Concepts You Should Teach Your Child (Part 1)

What You Need to Teach Your Late-Talker (Instead of Alphabet & Colours) Having a child who has delayed speech (late-talker) is probably one of the most distressing discoveries for parents. A number of late-talkers seem to struggle with the seemingly ‘easy’ tasks such as saying “mama” or “dada”, but appear

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STTOTS: The First Online Speech Therapy School in Africa

STTOTS stands for Speech Therapy Totos Online Training School (STTOTS). STTOTS is a platform I created, which houses a growing collection of training courses covering some of the speech therapy topics mostly related to paediatric speech therapy practice. Ever since I began my practice in Kenya, I have wanted to pass on my knowledge

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How to Encourage Your Child to Chew Solid Food

I encounter many children in Nairobi who are not able to chew solid food or have difficulty chewing solid food. These 2-year-olds and 3-year-olds are not chewing and they eat very limited foods. They are very difficult to take on long trips with especially if you have not prepared any

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What Not to Focus on When Growing Your Child’s Language

Episode 30: My Opinion about What not to Focus on When growing Your Child’s Language Today’s topic is one topic that I have been keen on exploring; some of the things that will definitely not grow your late-talker’s language. There are many things that parents are doing unknowingly that will not

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Is Your Child too Young to Start Speech Therapy?

Episode 32: Is Your Child too Young to Start Speech Therapy? Today’s topic is on a question that I get asked a lot by parents. ” Is my child too young for speech therapy ?” I have talked about this in previous topics stressing that there is nothing like the “right” age

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My Family’s Personal Journey with Hearing Loss

My Family’s Personal Journey with Hearing Loss My sister’s hearing loss is what started all of this off for me. Hearing loss robbed my parents their dream of having a child they could talk to, who could talk back to them during those early years. Hearing loss dealt us a

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