Talking and listening are important skills for
young children to learn in order to communicate and function within society.
Talking and listening also are important precursors for reading and writing
when children attend school. Today Hannah Wilkin (Charles Sturt University) and Elissa Shand (University of Newcastle) began working with me on the Talking about Talking research project. The overarching aim of this research is to listen
to typically developing young children’s perspectives about their talking and
listening, in order to facilitate educational transition practices between the
early childhood setting (where talking and listening are the focus) to the
school setting (where talking and listening practices evolve into writing and
reading practices). The secondary aim of this research is to compare these
typically developing children’s perspectives about talking and listening with
those of 143 children with speech impairment.
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| Hannah Wilkin, Sharynne, and Elissa Shand |
