{"id":16180,"date":"2024-06-06T10:54:53","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T09:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/?p=16180"},"modified":"2024-06-06T12:40:43","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T11:40:43","slug":"early-years-talk-boost-programme-early-years-south-west-stronger-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/early-years-talk-boost-programme-early-years-south-west-stronger-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Years talk boost programme-  Early Years South West Stronger Partnership Hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An opportunity has arisen for settings to receive the Early Talk Boost programme.<\/p>\n<h2>What is Early Talk Boost?<\/h2>\n<p>Early Talk Boost is a targeted programme designed for 3 to 4-year-old children struggling with communication and language. It includes an intervention manual, set of eight story books, toolkit of resources and a tracker. Children who are selected to take part in the nine-week intervention will attend three sessions per week during circle\/story time, each lasting 15-20 minutes delivered by an early years practitioner.<\/p>\n<h2>What does Early Talk Boost cover?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Attention and listening as a foundation skill for speaking and listening<\/li>\n<li>Developing vocabulary (as research shows that children with weaker vocabularies are at risk of difficulties with reading)<\/li>\n<li>Building sentences \u2013 putting words together is a vital skill for having conversation and telling stories<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>How is Early Talk Boost delivered?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Settings identify at least two practitioners to receive 5 hours of live, online training. Settings can choose whether to attend the training at the beginning of the summer or autumn term. Twilight sessions will be available<\/li>\n<li>Early Years practitioners select 6-8 children to take part in Early Talk Boost by using the Early Talk Boost Tracker<\/li>\n<li>Early Years practitioners run a workshop with parents\/carers and deliver the Early Talk Boost programme with the children<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Further information and register interest<\/h2>\n<p>For further information visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/speechandlanguage.org.uk\/educators-and-professionals\/programmes-for-nurseries-and-schools\/talk-boost\/early-talk-boost\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Early Talk Boost &#8211; Speech and Language UK: Changing young lives<\/a> or email: <a href=\"mailto:project@speechandlanguage.org.uk\">project@speechandlanguage.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Register your interest here: <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.office.com\/pages\/responsepage.aspx?id=G6lD3X-H_EGSi-S5pk-_yl-StU4UxFdHmWu2WqoV5dxUNFpDOFgzVzRYQjZOV0xNSVNUTENZNEw3Vi4u\" rel=\"noopener\">Early Talk Boost &#8211; expression of interest form for settings (office.com)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An opportunity has arisen for settings to receive the Early Talk Boost programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-02 09:11:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16180"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16188,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16180\/revisions\/16188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}