Talk To Your Baby - related issues and research

Developing language for life

Topics A-Z

Baby massage
Baby signing
Better or worse? - children's early language
Bilingual communication
Body language
Books and babies
Brain development
Buggies
Children's sector workforce
Dads and male carers
Dummies
Education - when to start?
Gender
Good practice

Grandparents
Language acquisition - help us to get this topic taught in secondary school
Listening
Mental health
Music
Parenting
Physical disability & language
Play
Reading
Slings
Speaking and listening
Speech & language difficulties
Speech & language therapy
Television
Twins and multiples

Carer and child. Photo: Sure Start

"Although most infants don't learn to talk until their second year, their voices are there for us to hear from birth."

- Rouse Selleck, 1995

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