For Children's Centres and
Early Years Settings

Small Talk

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Small Talk helps parents'carers to develop and extend their children's language and give them the best possible start in life. This helps the children to:

• make friends
• learn new things
• tell others how they think and feel
• share
• discover and problem solve
• learn to read and write
• and most importantly be happy and confident

It is a short training course of 2 x 2 hour sessions about 8 weeks apart. The sessions provide four things for parents/carers to take away with them:

• A poster of language suggestions
• A poster for children about Good Talking
• A game to encourage talking
• A booklet with tips and suggestions to support language development

Parents/carers who have taken the course say it helped them:

• "It's given me new ways of doing things."
• "It's helped me be more confident and relaxed and to do different things with them."

And their children:

• "The baby has started to use some of the language that I have used with her."
• "They put more words together in sentences."
• "It's contributed to managing their behaviour better, especially when we're shopping and talking about things in the shop."

If you are interested in hosting a Small Talk training session for your parents/carers, please contact Carla in the ROWA! office:

By email: carla@rowa.org.uk

By phone: 01629 536794

Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Children's Centres may qualify for a reduced price - please email Carla to find out more.

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