Links and resources
Schools, private day nurseries and other interested parties can purchase resources at a cheaper cost than self-printing and copying, with the optional addition of your own logos (copyright Nottinghamshire Healthcare) from Nottinghamshire County Council design and print. Email L4L@nottshc.nhs.uk or phone 07788 386264.
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
For further details/advice contact L4L@nottshc.nhs.uk
Links
- 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
Films and audio
- Walking Through the Jungle Story
- Anytime is Chatting Time
- Changing Time if Chatting Time
- Your Words Work Wonders: Tips for chatting with your toddler
- Sentence Trouble – Better communication in the youth justice system
- The Communications Trust - working with parents of younger children
- The Still Face Experiment
- RALLI campaign
- Michael Rosen's Radio 4 broadcast on how children develop their first words