Early Years Speech and Language Therapy resources
Talk to Me campaign
You can support your child’s language development by chatting, singing, playing and reading to them throughout the day. Our Talk To Me campaign offers tips on ways to interact with your child so they can develop their communication skills.
Making time to chat, play, share books and sing together with your child will support their language development and can be lots of fun too. When is your best ‘together time’?
Chat with me resources
Your child loves chatting, playing, sharing books, and singing with you. Check out these short information videos and bitesize tips to help you make the most of your ‘together time.’
Chat with me!
- Ideas on how to chat together: https://www.bbc.co.uk/tiny-happy-people/tools-for-talking-12-18-months/z3hkcmn
Play with me resources
Play with me!
- How toddlers learn through play – BBC Tiny Happy People
- Ideas for playing together: Learning to talk 3 to 5 years – NHS (www.nhs.uk)
Sing with me resources
Sing with me!
Talking tunes
- Visit our Talking tunes webpage: Using songs and rhymes to support language development
- For more ideas check out our full playlist.
Share books with me resources
You can view our top tips for sharing books document for tips and advice on reading with your child.
Stories At Home
Stories At Home is a Bristol Early Language Project initiative with Children’s Early Years Speech & Language Therapy.
You can borrow stories to share at home with your family. Books are available for free via your local library.
More ideas, fun tips, and useful links:
Here are some useful websites for more information, ideas, and fun tips:
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/tiny-happy-people
- https://speechandlanguage.org.uk/information-and-support/
- Ideas for supporting language through sharing books together as well as other everyday activities: https://wordsforlife.org.uk/
- Tips in different languages- sign up for free access to resources: https://literacytrust.org.uk/resources/time-together-multilingual-families/
Early Years Speech and Language Therapy Toolkit
Communication is a complex skill, which begins to develop even before a baby is born. There are many areas of development that build together, for your child to become a confident communicator.
To find out how speech, language and communication develops watch this short information video: Language Development Steps video.
