‘Nurturing Babble to Chatter and Beyond’ provides tips for how childcare practitioners can enrich children’s language through day-to-day activities, alongside tips that can also be used by parents at home.
The programme was launched at the first of a series of nationwide seminars, by language expert Elizabeth Jarman, who developed the Communication Friendly Spaces approach.
The seminar was attended by nursery managers from Busy Bees nurseries, who received a pack to help them pass on the new approach to nursery staff.
Ms Jarman said, ‘We all of know just how important communication skills are, at all stages of life. Children who talk the most are the ones who are likely to go on to read the most and write the most, helping them to access opportunities at school and in the longer term their communities.
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