Families
Here you’ll find activities, advice and guidance to support your child in developing their speech, language and other skills.
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50 Things To Do Before You’re Five
50 Things To Do Before You’re Five is a free app offering a menu of exciting activities for families with young children in Birmingham, giving great suggestions for how to have fun and learn at the same time.
Activities, Advice and Support
We’ve curated a list of sources for activities and advice to help you support the development of your child’s speech, language and communication skills.
Follow the links below to learn more.
Advice on speaking more than one language from Birmingham NHS Trust
Short videos and simple, fun activities that you and your children can do together from the NHS Better Health: Start For Life
Speech and Language UK: tools to help a child’s speaking and understanding skills development
Words for Life from the National Literacy Trust: activities for parents to support language development
Tips on reading with your child from BookTrust, the UK’s largest children’s reading charity
Five talking tips from Words for Life. This simple guide features five tips to help parents and guardians encourage small children to start speaking for the first time.
The NSPCC have put together a hub of ideas all about brain-building with babies. A gentle starting point for parents of newborns and young babies.
Explore simple activities and play ideas designed to develop your child's communication skills, from the BBC’s Tiny Happy People campaign.
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