Playing Talking Learning
Playing Talking Learning is an organisation that delivers Speech and Language Therapy to individuals, in schools and in partnership with organisations.
Playing Talking Learning works directly with children and together with parents, carers, teachers, other professionals, and governmental and non-governmental agencies, i.e. all those who live and work with and teach children, to ensure that children receive the best support for their development, particularly their language and communication development, from the adults in their lives.
Playing Talking Learning works directly with children and others to support and extend the development of children’s playing, talking and learning, through a range of means including direct therapy, training (of parents and others), consultation, interventions, service development and delivery.
Playing Talking Learning raises awareness, knowledge and skills of parents and educators, and the range of professionals involved with children, to support children’s language and communication development.
Playing Talking Learning - some history
Olwen Morgen, the founder of Playing Talking Learning, set up PTL in 2018 in the UK and Zimbabwe.
Motivated by the lack of speech and language therapy services in her homeland, Zimbabwe, Olwen started a range of projects in Zimbabwe from 2013. These continue to the present day, focusing on raising awareness and knowledge of speech, language and communication difficulties in children, and developing carer, parent and teacher skills in dealing with these difficulties at home and school.
In addition, Olwen partners with various Zimbabwean organisations and individuals to improve the lives of children and parents and to thereby ensure improved outcomes for children.
Playing Talking Learning – a developmental process
Playing is the occupation of children and therefore integral to children’s development generally. Playing is particularly important to children’s acquisition of language and communication skills.
Talking and communicating, and understanding what is being said and communicated, are essentials for children’s development and significantly impact on children’s ability to learn, and to access learning and education.
Learning is a lifelong endeavour – training others to ensure increased knowledge Playing Talking Learning highlights the importance of language and communication development for learning.
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