Changing the Teaching and Learning Space by Enhancing Adult Interactions and Children’s Language
Olwen Morgen: Speech and Language Therapist; Consultant
Gen Shukla: Life Coach; Parent-Child Interaction Specialist
Co-Founders: Playing Talking Learning Works 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 supports and extends the development of children’s playing, talking and learning, through a range of means including training, consultation, interventions, service development and delivery Playing Talking Learning
Represents 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.
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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 and skills to support children’s development is therefore a central aim for Playing Talking Learning.
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Playing Talking Learning highlights the importance of language and communication development for learning
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
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Raising the QUALITY of Adult-Child Interactions Playing Talking Learning
Parent-Child Interactions (PCI), during daily life and particularly during play, transform children's development, their lives and their engagement with the world around them (PTL 2019)
Parent-child interactions that are structured and responsive to a child’s needs and emotions have been found to be positively related to school readiness, social skills, and receptive communication skills development (Connell et al, 2002)
Parent-Child Interactions
Parent-Child Interactions (PCI), during daily life and particularly during play, transform children's development, their lives and their engagement with the world around them (PTL 2019)
Parent-child interactions that are structured and responsive to a child’s needs and emotions have been found to be positively related to school readiness, social skills, and receptive communication skills development (Connell et al, 2002) Parent-Child Interactions
We therefore build on
ADULT-CHILD INTERACTION SKILLS
Adults learn about and action
Following Attending Commenting Enhancing – Talking Together
With Children, While….
Responding Activating Conversing Expanding
FACE-TT ™ & RACE ™
Adults taking time and Talking Together with children will include:
- Following children’s leads
- Attending
- Commenting
- Enhancing children’s interests and language experience
- Responding
- Activating
- Conversing
- Expanding Putting FACE – TT ™ and RACE ™ into practice ™
