Speak Up - Leicestershire Down syndrome group

Speak Up - Leicestershire Down syndrome group A play group for babies & preschoolers with down syndrome focusing on speech, communication & play skills

The sound of the term is 's'.The children have enjoyed exploring the objects that begin with 's'. We choose a sound to f...
02/02/2026

The sound of the term is 's'.
The children have enjoyed exploring the objects that begin with 's'. We choose a sound to focus on for the entire term because repetition really helps our children to learn.
Sound bombardment is a fun, low-pressured way to expose children to a specific target sound. It helps to increase their awareness of the sound and how it is produced. The children also use their fabulous listening and turn taking skills.

This week we continued our winter themed topic by learning the signs for clothes you wear in the winter. The children al...
29/01/2026

This week we continued our winter themed topic by learning the signs for clothes you wear in the winter. The children also expanded their vocabulary, by learning about 'in' and 'out' and putting the clothes in and out of the washing machine

Speak up is on tomorrow at 10am!Last week everyone enjoyed going on a bear hunt with this fab sensory story.
25/01/2026

Speak up is on tomorrow at 10am!
Last week everyone enjoyed going on a bear hunt with this fab sensory story.

It was so lovely to welcome families back after the Christmas break. This week has been all about winter and snow, with ...
13/01/2026

It was so lovely to welcome families back after the Christmas break. This week has been all about winter and snow, with a snow themed sensory basket, snowman story and lots of winter themed signs.

Speak up is taking a break now over the Christmas period and we'll be back on Monday 12th of January.We wish you all a m...
08/12/2025

Speak up is taking a break now over the Christmas period and we'll be back on Monday 12th of January.

We wish you all a merry Christmas and hope you have a wonderful time over the holiday season

Turn taking is such an important skill to learn, it also helps children develop their social and language skills, and sh...
13/11/2025

Turn taking is such an important skill to learn, it also helps children develop their social and language skills, and shared attention. Every session we include a turn taking activity. This week the children enjoyed taking it in turns to roll a ball to each which is also a great way to work on those gross motor skills.

Good morning!It's been lovely to welcome some new families to speak up over the last couple of weeks. This terms topic i...
10/11/2025

Good morning!
It's been lovely to welcome some new families to speak up over the last couple of weeks.
This terms topic is food where we'll be doing a range of activities linked to food and learning some new makaton signs. we also have some sensory activities planned.
Looking forward to seeing you all at 10am today.

We hope you've all had a wonderful Halloween weekend!We didn't go trick or treating but we did lots of spooky activities...
03/11/2025

We hope you've all had a wonderful Halloween weekend!
We didn't go trick or treating but we did lots of spooky activities at home! Creepy jelly messy play, made pastry ghosts and played ghost bowling.

Looking forward to hearing all about your Halloween weekend at today's session, 10am Groby village hall

It was so lovely to welcome all of our wonderful families back after half term.It was spooky week this week!The children...
27/10/2025

It was so lovely to welcome all of our wonderful families back after half term.
It was spooky week this week!
The children enjoyed exploring the 'room on the broom' sensory box and learning some new signs. We also worked on object permanence by hiding creepy spiders under witch hats.

The topic for this term has been farm animals.One fun activity the children have been enjoying is finding different farm...
14/10/2025

The topic for this term has been farm animals.
One fun activity the children have been enjoying is finding different farm animals under buckets and scarves. This activity helps promote object permanence (the understanding that an object/person is still there even when you can't see them) as well as learning new words (animal names and animal sounds), along with learning the makaton sign.

We hope everyone has a wonderful half term!

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Groby Village Hall, Leicester Road
Groby
LE60DQ

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Monday 10am - 11am

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