March 9, 2012

Supporting children's speech and language development

Last night I spoke to 404 parents and teachers at 30 rural and remote schools throughout the state of New South Wales (NSW) as part of the Department of Education and Communities' NSW Country Areas Program's RDE RELATE:
"RDE RELATE  began in 2010 as a community education initiative aimed at supporting parents and community members in rural and remote areas of NSW. The aim is to support sustainability in rural and remote communities through providing access to high quality persons and topics of interest via video conferencing. Issues covered to date have canvassed a broad range of topical issues from internet safety, sexting,  to assisting your child with literacy." http://www.cap.nsw.edu.au/rde-relate

The title of my presentation was: "Supporting children's speech and language development" (not quite as controversial as some of the other topics above!). I covered how children acquire speech and language from birth into the school years. Then I talked about what parents and teachers can do to assist children's communication.

Thank you flowers!
To end my presentation I showed a video from the UK's 2011 Hello campaign: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ02NkT9GMY&feature=related