If your child is age 0 – 5 years (not in full time school) this section is for you! We recommend you look through the following resources, videos and advice sheets and try some strategies that are relevant to your child’s age and stage to help your child’s speech, language and communication development.
If you would like more specific information on different aspects of speech, language and communication please click on the tabs in the Information for parents or Information for professionals section of our website for strategies to support any areas that apply to your child including: attention and listening, speech, spoken language, understanding of language, social communication and interaction, fluency, vocabulary, selective mutism and more!
Watch our Promoting Communication webinar
- Learn about your role in supporting speech and language development.
- Key stages of speech and language development.
- Top tips for promoting speech and language and communication in early years.
Watch our FREE 15-minute webinar below.
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Promoting Communication from HCT NHS Trust on Vimeo.
FOLLOW communication strategies postcard: click here
Top tips for developing social interaction webinar!
- Watch a FREE 12 minute webinar (click on the image below)
- Learn about JOIN! (join, observe, imitate, naturally model language)
- For parents/carers, setting staff and health professionals
- Aimed at supporting children who are autistic or who have social interaction & communication differences
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JOIN postcard: click here
Baby - Top tips to support your baby's communication
- Talk to your baby - Change and chat
- Talk to your baby - Playing with your baby
- Talk to your baby - Say hello to your new baby
- Talk to your baby - Sharing books with your baby
- Talk to your baby - Sharing songs and rhymes
- Advice around dummy use
