Baby Talk: Encouraging Language Development with Infants and Toddlers

This workshop focuses on how we can support children’s language development in the early years.
Included will be practical, interactive strategies to help children engage and communicate with
their caregivers. Some of the topics covered will be:
• Children’s conversational styles
• The role caregivers play
• Knowing how and why children communicate and how we can more effectively support them
• Strategies we can use to encourage interaction and conversation
• How to use rhymes and stories to help build emergent literacy skills
• Ways of supporting families as partners in building language skills
• Supporting resources for all participants