Now we're talking
About
Now We're Talking is a resource comprising two information sheets - First Words and Words Together. They depict the development of communication and language in young children. The colourful and amusing pictures show children and their families doing all those ordinary things that children and families do every day! The captions and speech bubbles describe how children learn their first words and then how to join them together - with ideas about what helps them to learn.
Now We're Talking has been created for parents and follows on from Before Words. It is designed as an attractive, accessible, largely pictorial, low text format.
First Words is all about the way children first understand words and then start to talk, learning more and more new words. The back page shows the very different ways in which young children enjoy books.
Words Together explains and shows how children learn to join words together and can then tell you more about their world and what they enjoy, want and need. The back page of 'Words Together' looks at the variety of ways in which children can enjoy playing and learning from play.
Now We're Talking was developed within Surestart Westgate Children's Centre by two Speech and Language Therapists, Lynn Jones and Gretel McEwen. It was created in response to requests from parents and workers who had found Before Words enjoyable and useful and wanted information on the next stages of communication development.
Now we're talking emphasises the development of relationship and interaction as fundamental to communication:
It underpins the development of communication as fundamental to social and emotional development in young children. This emphasis reflects current guidelines on working with pre-school children.
