Why reading aloud to babies is such a gift Reading aloud to your baby provides a fantastic language learning opportunity. It also helps to increase your baby’s concentration and memory. Research shows that reading aloud to your baby each day helps build strong foundations for later-developing reading and writing skills. Try to position [...]
Find out how your centre can take part I am so excited to be partnering with the City of Stirling to provide free education and training to early childhood educators working in centres throughout their city. Thanks to this funding, the Talkable 10-week early language program will be provided to 60 [...]
12 activities to help your child learn new words On our most recent family trip I was reminded of something magic – new experiences lead to a burst in new words. The evidence was right before my eyes (or rather ears) as Chloe (my 2 ½ year old) repeated and later [...]
Talkable Tonight - How do ear infections impact language learning? Does your child have frequent ear infections? Are you worried about how this might be impacting their speech and language learning? Tune in to Talkable Tonight on Sunday, April 14th to find out: - how hearing works - what causes middle [...]
Live, online support from a Speech Pathologist Launching Talkable Tonight! Talkable tonight is a monthly, FREE, live online session with a speech pathologist aimed at answering your questions about early speech and language development. Held from 7:30 – 8:30 on the second Sunday of every month, this session will cover off [...]
Practicing mindfulness can help develop your child's language Practicing mindfulness has been a really great tool in helping me connect with my little ones and understand what they are trying to communicate - even when they aren't using words. When we are practicing mindfulness we are: in the present focusing on [...]
Register for the free March Talkable program now The second Talkable program is starting soon. This is a free program funded through the City of Melville's Project Robin Hood grant scheme. Project Talkable is all about helping parents, grandparents and early childhood educators who care for a child under three, [...]
Help your child play by giving them fewer toys! Happy New Year! Can you believe that the holiday season is already over for another year? If your house is anything like ours, it is strewn with a plethora of new toys, gifted to our little ones from well-intentioned grandparents. But do [...]
Wordless picture books unlock your child's imagination Ella and I made a wonderful discovery at the library this week with the book Journey by Aaron Becker. This wordless picture book is beautifully illustrated and has really sparked Ella’s imagination. Each time we share it together we notice something new hidden within [...]
Woop - The first Talkable group program is now complete The very first Talkable group program has now wrapped! Thanks to all the fantastic mums and dads who took part. What an amazing gift of language learning you will be giving your little ones. I was overwhelmed by the positive feedback [...]