Where can I buy Letter land to help with speech

[mummyloveslucy]

Hi, does anyone know where I can buy letter land items ? I don't really want to buy them on-line as I'd like to read the books ect first.
She is doing letterland at nursery and I'd like to re-enforce it at home too.
She has a speech disorder and I'm hoping that this might help, or at leat help her not to fall too far behind the other children.
Please let me know if you have any other suggestions as well, maybe games we could play to support her learning whalst having fun one to one time with me. TThanks

Is she under a SALT? I think they tend to prefer jolly phonics (there may be one here you can check with).

OH and for recommendations I'd recomend Baby Talk by the the late Sally Ward. Unless it's specifically producing sounds (rather than language) in which case apraxia kids is a great resource.

Thank you, yes she is seein a SALT every week. It's just that nursery do letter land. What's the difference with jolly phonics? I don't want to confuse her too much. She has verbal dyspraxia. I've read that baby talk book but it dosn't really help Lucy as her vocab is very good but she can't make the right sounds.

Is apraxia the same as verbal dyspraxia?
Thank you for the website.

I think I have seen Letterland books in Waterstones. Waterstones and ELC definitely do a selection of jolly phonics books.

Oh thanks TotalChaos! I think I remember you have a son with the same problem as Lucy. How is he getting on, because it seems sooo slow with Lucy. I think you printed out some advice sheets for Lucy.
If it's not you then please ignore this.

no it's not me, everything else other than speech sounds is DS's problem(!)

www.speechland.co.uk is a free resource and is worth a look for SALT games / activities.

Dd1 had verbal dyspraxia and we were told o use phonics.
Most schools go on ot use this too.
HTH.

littlerach- how is her speech now? and has it put her behind in her learning? I had never heard of verbal dyspraxia before Lucy was diognosed.
I get the impression that nursery are getting concerned that progress is so slow.

Isn't phonics the same as letterland ?
I'm not sure what the difference is.

HI there

Yes apraxia is the American term for verbal dyspraxia.

There are all sorts of resources available from the States such as kaufman cards.

I think (but could be wrong) that jolly phonics is a bit more based around sounds. Whilst letterland has the letters making sounds but they also have names etc and it more based around letters. That's vague and woolly and could be completely and utterly wrong! DS3 is doing some letterland at school and he keeps going on about penguin 1 and annie apple etc which isn\t that useful for speech.

EFA's can help

www.apraxia.cc

Thanks for that, I get what you meen. I did letter land at school, but jolly phonics are new I think.
I have a problem with "Polly Phonics" on cbeebies as when the parrot is called she squarks WWAA!! but Lucy thinks she say's WHAT!! so for a while when ever I called her she would squark WHAT. I stopped her watching it in the end.

Letterland is the "old" way of learning to read. Jolly Phonics uses synthetic phonics (sounds) to decode words - so children learn all the SOUNDS of the language rather than the letters

For example.

CAT works in letterland because it's "c" "a" and "t" said as you would to a baby, but something like "kite" doesn't work because "k" "i" "t" "e" doesn't make the sounds.

Children at schools, nationwide now learn that vowel,space,vowel means the first vowel has a long sound (I = eye, not ih in this case) - there's rhymes and actions to reinforce each sound meaning and noise. The rhyme for this is "When two vowels go a-walking, the first one does the talking!"

It is a much easier way to learn to read as children recognise the sounds letters in partiular orders make and therefore can read a lot more by "decoding" (sounding out) which is sometimes a pain as they can read a lot of stuff before you think they can!

If you google Jolly phonics, it'll take you to their site where you can learn a lot more.

All schools across Britain should be using the JP system now, or at least moving towards it, so it may be better for your DD to start to introduce it?

Thank you LewisFan. It sounds really good. I will google it now.

You can listen to the letter sounds here www.educationtakeaway.com/shop/pc/viewPrd.asp?idcategory=69&idproduct=12

Mummyloveslucy, her speech is much better now (she is 7, and started seeing a SALT just before her third birthday). She still has a couple of problems with soem pronounciation, but nothing significant.

WRT progressing at school, she is doing amazing
Her SALT did warn us that she might find it hard with literacy, but she is in the top group, so no problems.

We were lucky in that we didn't have to wait long to see a SALT, and that the SALT was fabulous, and seemed to go out og her way to help dd1.

The same SALT has just started with a child at dd2's preschool, and remembered dd1.