Talk To Your Baby Press Room
Topics for discussion
Talk To Your Baby (TTYB) is happy to provide comment on a range of topics relating to early years communication and language development. Following are some of the topics on which we have provided comment and generated discussion.
Buggies: TTYB believes that there should be more pusher-facing buggies created, at affordable prices, as they encourage communication and interaction between the child and pusher. There were over 1,000 respondents to our online survey on the topic. TTYB's buggy campaign aims to encourage manufacturers and retailers to produce and promote affordable pusher-facing buggies. Find out more about the buggy campaign.
Children's language development: The first three years of a child's life are crucial for language development, as this is when the majority of brain development takes place. TTYB provides a central source of information and resources to help parents and practitioners to make the most of this window of opportunity. View our downloadable resources.
Early years communications: This broad heading encompasses a range of related areas, from gesturing and signing to bilingualism, bonding and listening. If we cannot provide a comment, we can often point media contacts in the right direction. Click here for a list of issues relating to early years communication.
Parent and child interaction: TTYB aims to encourage parents and carers to talk more to children from birth to three and continues to explore the reasons why there are so many concerns about children's poor communication skills today. Talking and listening to young children helps them to develop good language and communication skills, as well as helping to build a bond between adult and child.
Television: TTYB and the National Literacy Trust produced a research review and organised a conference in 2004 called 'How can television contribute to children's language development'? Accepting that TV is here to stay, it explored the potential for television to contribute to children's language development. TTYB continues to offer practical advice on how to use television in a constructive way. View our TV pages.
If you would like more information, or to arrange an interview with Talk To Your Baby, email talktoyourbaby@literacytrust.org.uk or call 020 7820 6265.
Talk To Your Baby press releases
New paper calls for early years communication strategies in local authorities (17 August 2009)
Talk To Your Baby Conference 2009: Why the first years last forever (21 April 2009)
Baby buggies may undermine child development (21 November 2008)
National Literacy Trust welcomes findings of Bercow Review (8 July 2008)
Conference on early communication issues (26 June 2008)
Talking made easier for parents (6 August 2007)
Do you Walkie Talkie? (22 January 2007)
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