Helping Children Find Their Voices: A Guide for Parents and Early Years Practitioners

Designed to be used either independently or alongside the ‘Words  Together’ storybooks, Helping Children Find Their Voices is a guide for  parents and practitioners supporting children in the early stages of  learning to talk, specifically to understand and use two-word sentences.

Written  in a friendly and reassuring tone, the book untangles questions and  concerns that many parents and practitioners share around language  development, such as whether children are reaching important milestones,  whether they benefit from screen-time and dummies, and what to do if  there might be a problem.

Key features of this book include:

•  Chapters that can either be followed consecutively, offering tips on  how to encourage first words and the combining of words into two-word  sentences, or dipped in-and-out of according to the individual child’s  level of development

• Practical information and advice rooted in  theory, giving parents and practitioners the confidence and background  knowledge to support communication

• Activities that can be  integrated into everyday interactions, giving children the opportunity  to hear simple sentence structures that they can progress towards in  their own speech.