Talk To Your Baby 2009 Conference survey
Thanks to all those who took part in our online survey, your comments are invaluable to help us shape the 2010 conference. Here are the results:
- Between February and March 2010, 73 people responded to our online survey about the impact that the 2009 conference had on their work.
- 100% of respondents described the conference as useful.
- 73% of respondents changed the way they talk about things with colleagues as a result of the conference.
- 55% of respondents said the conference had changed the way they view things.
- 96% of respondents shared what they learnt at the conference with colleagues.
- 60% shared what they learnt at the conference with their Manager.
- 54% shared what they learnt at the conference with either a friend or parent.
Additional comments
- This is an excellent opportunity to gather professionals passionate about early years and an excellent forum to share good practice and latest research.
- I appreciated the broad range of speakers. Very inspiring -reaffirmed that the everyone needs to be involved in helping our children develop comm. skills.
- There was a lot of content - the range of areas covered was really useful. The content re working with those with English as a second language was particularly useful. The ideas from the Museum work was very interesting and inspiring.
- I thought the conference and content was one of the best I have ever attended in terms of relevance to my job, new facts learned, affirmation of the importance of my area of work and much more.
- Working alongside other professionals supporting communication is so rewarding and I always feel inspired after one of the your conferences!
- The conference was very informative and gave food for thought. I would continue to and have recommended other colleagues attend future events if possible. Last year was the second conference I have attended and it did not disappoint especially as I have to travel some distance.
- The day was full of really useful information and I really enjoyed it. I am the coordinator for Partners in Literacy in Sheffield and I have since signposted a lot of people to your site and promoted the work you are doing.
- The research on the brain had a huge impact on me and I have used this in training with parents and practitioners and shared the information from the conference with my colleagues.
- Robin Balbernie's information on early brain development has been really useful and I've precied it and circulated it to students, practitioners and colleagues. I've also been very much more aware of encouraging practitioners to positively encourage bilingualism. Your conferences are always interesting and enjoyable and I always look forward to the next one and recommend them.
- This conference introduced me to the Talk To Your Baby website which I have found very useful for downloads to use with new mums at post natal groups and young mums still at school, it's brilliant, thank you so much.
- Great, It has fully changed the way that I think and do my work now. The brain dev information was just amazing. I would like more training within this area too. Working towards ECAT is also great having been to the conference has given me a head start.
- I enjoyed the conference very much indeed, in particular the cross section and variety of issues covered by the speakers. It confirmed my own understanding about the importance of the early years.
- The conference was as inspirational as ever and inspired me to go find out more about some of the topics covered by specific speakers.
- It was a great conference. The work that Talk To Your Baby does is great and very useful in working with children and their families.
Talk To Your Baby website survey 2004-05
Thanks to everyone who took part in our online website survey. Here are the results:
- Between November 2004 and February 2005, 99 people responded to our online survey giving their views on the usefulness of our website.
- The majority of respondents (36%) found the TTYB website through publications such as Tesco Baby and Toddler magazine and Nursery World. 24% came through the National Literacy Trust site and 15% through a link from another website.
- Most respondents (76%) were first time visitors. 13% visit the TTYB site a few times a month.
- 71% spend longer than 5 minutes looking at the site per visit; 35% said they spend more than 10 minutes viewing the site which suggests they find it interesting and easy to navigate.
- The majority of respondents (89%) said they find the site useful, with 59% saying they find it very useful. Only one person ticked the 'not very useful' box. (10% answered non-applicable possibly because they were first time visitors.)
- There was an even spread of interest in the different sections of the site but 71% were particularly interested in issues and research, 69% in resources and 67% in the section for parents.
- 42 respondents described themselves as parents, 35 as teachers or tutors and 17 ticked the 'other' box, describing themselves in the main as librarians, grandparents and childminders.
- 46% of respondents have recommended the site to others.
Additional comments
Here's a sample of what you said about our site:
- I think this site will be useful for my display work at the hospital for health initiatives for parents who frequent our ward so thank you and good luck for the future. I look forward to visiting again.
- I am an early years student doing a project on the importance of early intervention in speech and language difficulties. I have spent hours looking for information. Today I discovered your site and it appears to have the majority of information I need. Thank you.
- A really good way of finding up-to-date information and ideas for my own use and to share with colleagues and parents. Thank you!
- Brilliant resource - I find the site really useful for finding out what is going on in other areas - has given me a range of ideas for things I can establish as part of our local sure start programme.
- Wonderfully informative and easy to navigate as it is.
Suggestions
Thanks to all those who gave ideas on how we can improve and promote our site. Here's a sample of suggestions which we will certainly take into account.
- A list of books parents could read with their babies which is continually updated would be helpful.
- Install a refer a friend option to help promote the site
- More print out sheets to pass to parents, with examples of activities to do with their children. Also activities which can be used at nursery.
- Please keep providing free downloads, it encourages parents to visit the site & means we can spread the word without it costing us as an organisation lots of money to buy expensive publications. The leaflets are very good but perhaps you could also provide a version of each which is simplified into important bullet points/visual clues for parents/carers that have low level literacy skills and are turned off by large chunks of text. Many thanks.
- The downloads are particularly useful to give to parents as they are seen as important documents that they should keep and use.
