Because of my delayed speech, language development and understanding, I experienced difficulties with reading, writing and comprehension. My vocabulary was also rather limited too. I didn’t really understand that things like nouns were to do with naming things. In addition I didn’t fully appreciate that adjectives were words used for describing people and objects of […]

A Journey Through Expression Figurative language including idioms, I once found tricky. This can be the case for those who may take language more literally, and think that phrases mean exactly what they say. I once experienced difficulties with figurative language. However, there has been an underlying improvement in me, including my language ability. Now, […]

We all hear and read many words and phrases in our daily lives. Whilst lots of phrases can mean precisely what their words say, there are lots which require different approaches altogether.  This is particularly true with phrases such as ‘Shedding light on’, and ‘A ray of sunshine’. These types of phrases are what we […]