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Coventry Healthcare NHS Trust's Speech and Language Therapy Service has produced four leaflets to give information, advice and support to parents, carers and Early Years practitioners .
General Advice for Language Development
This leaflet describes skills which children need in order to become confident communicators and ways to encourage their development.
Choices
Giving children choices can help communication skills develop. This leaflet explains how.
Speech Advice for Parents
Speech sounds develop gradually, starting from early babbling at a few months old. This leaflet describes the normal pattern of development .
How You Can Help Children with Speech and language Difficulties in Your Group
This leaflet suggests strategies Early years Practioners can use to support attention and listening skills in a group.
Help Your Child to Talk
A leaflet from the Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists.
The Talk to Your Baby website also has a wide range of downloadable resources including Quick Tips, a series of information sheets available in 10 languages. Topics include dummies, television and information for bi-lingual families.
These documents are Adobe PDF Files. Adobe PDF Reader can be downloaded from the Adobe web site for free.