Help your child to talk

Baby IQ - DVDs to entertain and inspire babies Baby Talk and Toddler Talk DVD Basic Skills Agency - advice for parents Basic Skills Agency - Talk and Listen Together Before Words information sheets Cuddletime TV Everyday babycare: Learning to talk (2004) - a practical guide Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists leaflet Talk To Your Baby leaflet for parents Talk To Your Baby quick tips

• Baby IQ says, "We can't promise to make babies brighter, but we will make them smile" through their new range of DVDs to entertain and inspire babies, with music performed by the London Symphony Orchestra. The first two are The World Around Us and Baby's First Word, showing bright and colourful images of objects of interest to babies and young children, all accompanied by carefully chosen extracts of classical music. The DVDs have been produced in association with Talk To Your Baby, who will be receiving a donation for every copy sold. Baby IQ is offering a special discount to all TTYB web visitors - find out more
  Baby IQ, in using high quality music and images, is stimulating both hearing and sight, giving parents and carers opportunities to verbalise the images, and share the experience in words with their child. Talk To Your Baby welcomes initiatives that recognise the importance of early two-way exchanges, encouraging young children to look, think, react and respond.
  Baby IQ gives adults and young children the chance to share in a visual and musical experience that will provoke talk naturally. Talking about things as you see them around you helps to make sense of the world. Giving space in your "conversations" allows for important babbles in return. It can be exhausting to constantly see and hear new things, but repetition helps us to learn. Each time we see the same thing that we like, we sharpen our memory skills.
  
  
• Baby Talk and Toddler Talk DVD. Three Nottingham Sure Start local programmes have joined forces with parents to produce this language promotion DVD. Baby Talk and Toddler Talk is a two-part, 40-minute DVD designed to help parents with the development of their child's early language. It features parents being interviewed in their own homes and talking about the value of early parent-child interaction and the job of parenting. The DVD costs £6 and is available from Sure Start NW Nottingham, The Corner House, 18 Strelley Road, Broxtowe NG8 3AP. Cheques should be sent with orders and made out to NCH Sure Start NW Nottingham.
  
  
• The Basic Skills Agency in Wales has produced a booklet with advice for parents on how to encourage their child's speaking and listening skills, as well as colourful materials for parents and children to use together. The booklet can be downloaded free of charge from here.
  
  
• "Talk and Listen Together" is the latest in a series of packs (Read and Write Together, Count and Figure it out Together) for parents with young children aged 0-3, outlining how children's communication skills develop. It also gives parents practical ideas for activities to do together to help promote children's language skills through activities such as playing action games, discovering new sounds, storytelling and communicating together in day-to-day situations. Published by The Basic Skills Agency, ISBN 1 85990 241 3 (March 2003). Order from Basic Skills Agency Publications on 0870 600 2400 or visit www.basic-skills.co.uk.
  
  
• Before Words helps parents to develop their baby's early communication skills. Information sheets in attractive cartoon format target different stages in a baby's first year. The pack, developed by speech and language therapists Lynn Jones and Gretel McEwen at Sure Start Westgate, costs £5.95 plus p&p. To order call Any Gessey 0191 256 5020. For more details see www.beforewords.co.uk
  
  
• Cuddletime TV is a DVD and video designed for parents and babies to enjoy together. It consists of a series of happy babies smiling, waving and laughing and is accompanied by soothing classical music, but there is no dialogue. The DVD is designed to encourage discussion between babies and carers, helping to promote language development. For more information or to order a copy email info@cuddletime.tv.
  

• "Help Your Child To Talk" is a leaflet for parents produced by the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists. Download as pdf. To read this document you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader, which can be downloaded free of charge from here. Contact: Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists, 2 White Hart Yard, London SE1 1NX. Tel: 020 7378 1200.
  
  
• Talk To Your Baby has produced a leaflet for parents outlining the benefits of talking and listening to young children, which can be downloaded here and photocopied free of charge.
  
  
• Talk To Your Baby - quick tips. A series of advice sheets created by Talk To Your Baby covering important early language topics such as dummies and play, translated into nine languages. Download the tips free of charge from here.
  

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