0 - 2 Years

Baby Smart Signers

A 6 week programme to look at why interaction and nursery rhymes can be an important part of parent-child interaction. Teaches parents simple signs to use with their babies and shows how they can be used with old favourites to enhance the quality of the interaction.

Baby Talkers
“Parents, do you want to help to develop your child’s speech, language & communication skills?”
Research has show that babies need to be talked to and interacted with in order to fully develop the area of the brain which is involved with later speech, language and social interaction skills.

Baby Talkers is a 6 week programme devised by qualified speech & language therapists, which is ideal for use in Mother & Toddler groups, Parenting classes or parent support groups. It looks at several key issues and provokes and promotes discussion between parents. It aims to:

• develop a special bond between parents and their infants through excellent communication
• show how communication develops and the influences on this
• looks at positive interaction strategies that promote spoken language development.
• looks at communication in the 21st century and the effect on children’s development.