Ideas for using TTYB resources

The TTYB resources are designed to be used in whatever way suits you best. Outlined below are a few ideas and examples as to how practitioners have used them in different ways. If you would like to add to this page and share how you use the resources please email sarah.cheetham@literacytrust.org.uk

• The Children and Family Education Service in Coventry distributed 11,000 A4 copies of the TTYB poster in 2007. Ten thousand went to individuals through clinics, parent and toddler groups and libraries, and 1,000 were used for displaying in early years settings.
  
  
• Health visitors in Plymouth give the TTYB tips leaflet to every new parent in the city at the first post-birth check. They stress the importance of face-to-face communication in the future development of babies and children, reaching around 2,500 children and families. The TTYB poster has been distributed widely to local settings, and has also been placed in baby changing areas in a range of retail stores.
  
  
• A baby group in Cleveleys, Lancashire, which supports the communication between parent/carer and child from birth to three discusses the resources with the parents and issues them in a folder when they start the group. Regular updates are kept on the notice board including TTYB news.
  
  
• The SLT department in Glasgow talks through the information in the resources with new mums, first time mums and teenage mums. Information is shared during training with social care workers, early years education staff, health visiting staff and speech and language therapy colleagues.
  
  
• In Rutland, the resources are used at new parents groups to support the Bookstart ethos, at play and learn sessions for parents/carers grandparents and under fours and at rhyme time sessions in the library. They are offered as support to NVQ childcare candidates, to help them pass on the message at work and with parents. The resources are given out at parenting classes as handouts when appropriate as well as being shared with nursing students, health visitors and community nursery nurses.
  
  
• In Stoke-on-Trent, all health visitors have copies of TTYB’s Quick Tips to distribute to families.
  
  
• The Children's Information Services team in Lambeth copy the Quick Tips to include them within the maternity pack for new mothers.
  
  
• In 2006 a project commenced in Brighton & Hove for the printing of 6,000 TTYB leaflets for distribution to all new parents in the area over a two year period.
  
  
• Fazakerley Children's Centre in Liverpool alternates different TTYB resources on reception for parents to take each week, as they found it more effective than giving them out in one big pack.

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