Stoke Speaks Out is a multi-agency project to look at the issues underlying children's language deficits in Stoke on Trent.
Children
Grown Ups
What to expect
Where to seek help
Tips and Advice
Making TV Useful
Behaviour
Useful Links
Choosing a School
Child Development and Support
FAQs
Practitioners
Meet the Potters
Speech and Language Therapy
Stimulating Language
- Everything you do is an opportunity to teach language
- Read to your child
- Sing nursery rhymes together
- Talk about things as they happen
- Keep your language simple
- Encourage language by offering your child a choice eg. “ would you like milk or juice? “
- Talk to your baby before its born
- Turn the television, music and computer off if no one is using them. Background noise effects a child’s ability to listen and learn
- Talk to your child about everything you do together
- Get rid of dummies and bottles by the time your baby is one year old
- Listen to your baby and notice how s/he is trying to communicate with you
Tips and Advice
DID YOU KNOW?
It has long been recognised that children who commence formal schooling with speech, language and communication difficulties will be disadvantaged both socially and emotionally.
(Lees and Unwin 1997)
