Talk To Your Baby

Developing language for life

Talk To Your Baby is a campaign run by the National Literacy Trust to encourage parents and carers to talk more to children from birth to three. Talking to young children helps them become good communicators, which is essential if they are to do well at school and lead happy, fulfilled and successful lives.

A survey conducted for England's first Communication Champion finds that 'one in six' children have difficulty learning to talk
TTYB 2009 conference report - the first years last forever
TTYB downloads - new Bilingualism FAQ resource
Strategy guidance paper published by TTYB
TTYB's Face to Face research project
Tune In - Year of Music - TTYB's resources can help you celebrate

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Talk To Your Baby is supported
by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and Garfield Weston Foundation

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