Literacy news

Literacy news covers the latest news from the media and other sources, as well as updates on NLT activity. The most recent headlines are listed below and you can browse archived news by moving through the page numbers at the bottom of the page.

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Talk To Your Baby news stories:

• 06Jun2008
  Head Start - The Social Impact of Boots Book for Babies

  The Boots Books for Babies scheme, in the five years since its inception in 1998, has delivered 42,791 bags of books and literacy related materials to babies in the City of Nottingham and County of Nottinghamshire.

  Posted by Shawna Spoor

• 17Apr2008
  A matter of opinion

  An article in Nursery World focused on the importance of consulting with young children, following the launch of the Children's Plan and the duty for local authorities and service providers to do this.

  Posted by Shawna Spoor

• 12Mar2008
  PEAL and Listening to Young Children

  Suggested books for practitioners and advisers/managers.

  Posted by Shawna Spoor

• 15Feb2008
  When play becomes a serious business

  A report in the TES debated on how play is defined with the forthcoming introduction of the EYFS.

  Posted by Shawna Spoor

• 01Jan2008
  'Time to Talk' - Enabling Children to be Seen AND Heard

  Details of a programme developed by Sandwell to boost children's speech and language skills.

  Posted by Edward Mather

• 19Oct2007
  Turn off the TV. Forget Facebook. Just give your kids some time

  An article in the Guardian, by Henry Porter, considered the state of children's emotional wellbeing and the importance of families spending time together.

  Posted by Shawna Spoor

• 26Aug2007
  Is it time to tune into your toddler?

  Today's reception class pupils have a shocking lack of basic skills, according to primary school experts. So why – in an era when parenting is glorified – is our children’s development stunted?

  Posted by Edward Mather

• 10Aug2007
  Speech, language and communication needs - a definition

  Kamini Gadhok of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists provides a definition of speech, language and communication needs.

  Posted by Shawna Spoor

• 21Jun2007
  'Thinking' project given grant

  The project creates training materials for practitioners on ways of building young children's thinking.

  Posted by Shawna Spoor

• 08Feb2007
  Barnsley PCT Early Communication Screening Tool

  Margaret Pratt and Nicola Maddy, both SLTs reported for the RCSLT bulletin that Barnsley PCT has developed significant changes to the way it educates referrers in making timely and appropriate referrals and has devised an early communication tool for ref

  Posted by Shawna Spoor