Growing Hope Conversations

This podcast interviews Speech and Language Therapist Abi Page, giving practical tips, strategies and insights into Speech and Language Therapy for children with additional needs and their families, particularly considering the Autistic Spectrum.

This podcast gives practical tips and strategies as to how to support your child's writing development from letter formation to pencil grip. 

In this podcast Naomi discusses how you can support your child's play and common questions often asked about how children play.

This podcast discusses different questions that parents and carers often ask around supporting children's dressing. It gives lots of practical ideas about how to help your child develop these skills from putting on their coat to tying their laces. 

We all have days in which our behaviour is more challenging than others. This podcast discusses calming strategies that can help with both mild and extreme challenging behaviour that we may see in our children. Behaviour is a form of communication so this podcast helps us to reflect on ways in which we can support our child. It includes some relaxation strategies which may be helpful for both yourself and them. 

This podcast discusses common difficulties children have with their motor skills and their sensory processing when eating and provides quick practical strategies that parents and carers can try.

This podcast discusses how to enable your children to get a better nights sleep, particularly when sleep difficulties seem more prevelent during the COVID-19 crisis. 

Growing Hope provides free therapy for children and young people with additional needs. In this episode Naomi Graham explains why we have created this podcast to give support to parents and carers.