Welcome back to term 4. We hope everyone was able to enjoy some extra quality language building activities with family over the break. Term 4 is a busy term for the speech pathology team. We focus on preparing for those students who are transitioning to other schools at the end of the year, as well … Read more
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At Fremantle LDC both teachers and speech pathologist work to support students’ phonological awareness skills and more specifically phonemic awareness skills. Phonological awareness refers to knowing the language we hear can be broken into chunks of sound. The sound chunks can be syllables, rhyme and individual sounds (phonemes). The ability to hear the individual sounds … Read more
Typically children are able to combine words to form a diverse range of sentences by around 2 ½ years of age. These basic sentences usually include some form of a subject (i.e. person, animal or thing) doing an action. Initially the subject of the sentence is about what the child wants or has e.g. I … Read more