Links and resources

Talking tips resources

• Switch off and talk display [pdf] 848KB  
• Switch off and talk evaluation [pdf] 367KB
• Make time for rhyme display [pdf] 450KB - Susie, Children's Centre SLT in Mansfield, has created a display for you to download for your setting. It focuses on the theme of "make time for rhyme". Rhyme awareness is crucial for the development of speech around and early literacy. Why not download it for your setting so you can share these tips with your parents?
• Keep dummies for sleep time only poster[pdf] 196KB
• Listen to me poster[pdf] 5MB
• Our best place is face to face poster[pdf] 213KB
• Share books poster[pdf] 202KB
• Sign songs and rhymes poster[pdf] 194KB
• Talk with me all the day poster[pdf] 203KB
• Talking lead to learning poster pdf [pdf] 8MB
• Tips 2 leaflet [pdf] 5MB

Drop the dummy Christmas campaign

• Drop the dummy event poster [pdf] 580KB
• Drop the dummy display [pdf] 385KB
• Drop the dummy certificate [pdf] 344KB
• Pledge to drop the dummy certificate [pdf] 409KB
• Reindeer food tags [pdf] 96KB - a free gift if they pledge to/manage to give up
• Santa's washing line [pdf] 282KB
• Kieren Maloney (Warsop Children's Centre)'s Christmas drop the dummy certificate [pdf] 609KB  and letter from Santa [pdf] 116KB.

Drop the dummy at Easter

• Drop the dummy Easter display [pptx] 377KB
• Drop the dummy Easter certificate [doc] 255KB

For further details/advice contact L4L@nottshc.nhs.uk

• The Communication Trust
• Talking Point
• Aptcoo
• Hanen
• Words for Life
• Sentence Trouble
• Hungry Little Minds
• Tiny Happy People

The Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists has produced a factsheet on understanding the links between communication and behaviour [pdf] 1MB.

The Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists has produced an Early Years Factsheet.pdf [pdf] 931KB

• Walking Through the Jungle Story 
• Anytime is Chatting Time
• Changing Time if Chatting Time
• Your Words Work Wonders: Tips for chatting with your toddler
• RADLD campaign
• Michael Rosen's Radio 4 broadcast on how children develop their first words

• How you can help your child | Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
• Things you can do to help your child's speech and language develop | Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
• Child nursery rhymes | Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
• Language for Life - look what I can do | Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Publications and National Documents

We want to make sure that we offer the families we work with advice that will help their child with their speech, language and communication. To help with this the team takes part in research and evaluation projects. Below is a selection of publications that members of our team have written or where the practice of the team has been included as examples of good practice.

• Bercow: 10 Years on - A report published by the Royal Collage of Speech & Language Therapists (RCSLT) which looked into speech therapy across the country and how children living in different areas are offered support. The EISLT team was included in this as an example of good practice for supporting vulnerable children who are at risk of missing appointment in traditional therapy models.
• Coaching in everyday interactions to support language development - A project we are currently working on with The Sutton Trust, University of Oxford, Hackney SLT Team and the Institute for Employment Studies. This project is being funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation. The project is looking at how we can coach early years practitioners to support children to develop their language skills during everyday interactions.
• SLTs experiences of working with early years practitioners to support communication development - Research produced in partnership with Nottingham Trent University about the EISLT team's experience of supporting Language Leads - early years practitioners with additional training in supporting children's language development.
• Evaluation of the Language lead approach - Research produced by Nottingham Trent University, looking at the role of the Language Lead role from the practitioners' perspective. To ask for a copy, please contact the authors through the link.

 

 

Research and evaluation written and facilitated by the EISLT Team

• The Role of Health Visitors in supporting all children's communication development - An article written by the EISLT team for Health Visiting teams about how to help children's early speech, language and communication development.
• How Home Talk^TM Can Support Children's Language Development - A research study looking at the outcomes of children who have taken part in the Home Talk service.
• Supporting Early Years Practitioners' to use language supporting strategies through brief training - A research study looking at how attending Let's Interact: An adaptation of Learning Language and Loving It^TM - The Hanen Programme® for Early Childhood Educators/Teachers impacted on early years practitioners' skills in interacting with children and supporting their communication development.
• Year of Evaluation - Evaluation is a powerful tool for service improvement, so we present here a warts and all report, contributed to by everyone within the EISLT team. This provides some strong evidence of what we need to continue with but also some things we need to improve upon.
• Language for Life Social Media: A parents'/carers' perspective - An evaluation of  parents and carers' views of the Language for Life website and social media accounts.