{"id":18745,"date":"2025-10-02T10:29:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T09:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/?p=18745"},"modified":"2025-10-02T10:29:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T09:29:50","slug":"communicating-with-babies-and-toddlers-online-training-sessions-for-all-early-year-staff-working-with-babies-and-toddlers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/communicating-with-babies-and-toddlers-online-training-sessions-for-all-early-year-staff-working-with-babies-and-toddlers\/","title":{"rendered":"Communicating with babies and toddlers \u2013 online training sessions for all early year staff working with babies and toddlers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Babies and toddlers are unique children, at a crucial stage of their lives. We want to support you in your important, rewarding, and sometimes challenging role.<\/p>\n<p>Online monthly sessions will be taking place on a Thursday evening at 6pm\u2013 7pm, hosted by Alice Thornton, a highly specialist Speech and Language Therapist. Whether you are new to this work or have attended training before, you are welcome to join.<\/p>\n<h2>Aims of the session<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Gain new knowledge and strategies<\/li>\n<li>Practise and build on what you already know<\/li>\n<li>Develop more confidence in supporting babies and toddlers<\/li>\n<li>Share your experiences with colleagues who understand your role<\/li>\n<li>Explore practical, evidence-based approaches you can use every day<\/li>\n<li>Collect ideas to share with parents<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Topics may include<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Early pretend play development<\/li>\n<li>Very early communication<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWhat do I do if\u2026?\u201d problem-solving<\/li>\n<li>Supporting emotions in babies and toddlers<\/li>\n<li>Creating a communicative environment<\/li>\n<li>Making the most of everyday opportunities<\/li>\n<li>Eating and weaning<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You will also be able to suggest topics as the sessions progress.<\/p>\n<h2>Session dates<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Thursday 9th October 2025 (6pm &#8211; 7pm)<\/li>\n<li>Thursday 6th November 2025 (6pm &#8211; 7pm)<\/li>\n<li>Thursday 4th December 2025 (6pm &#8211; 7pm)<\/li>\n<li>Thursday 8th January 2026 (6pm &#8211; 7pm)<\/li>\n<li>Thursday 5th February 2026 (6pm &#8211; 7pm)<\/li>\n<li>Thursday 5th March 2026 (6pm &#8211; 7pm)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Sign up<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/us8.list-manage.com\/survey?u=bbec643126697d1e2c747b730&amp;id=9f85f15ad4&amp;attribution=false\" rel=\"noopener\">Sign up to the online sessions.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17640\" src=\"http:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/96\/2025\/03\/53512266-545f-8746-64e2-4121951aafd5-300x144.jpg\" alt=\"Early Years South West Stronger Practice Hub logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/96\/2025\/03\/53512266-545f-8746-64e2-4121951aafd5-300x144.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/96\/2025\/03\/53512266-545f-8746-64e2-4121951aafd5-800x384.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/96\/2025\/03\/53512266-545f-8746-64e2-4121951aafd5-768x369.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/96\/2025\/03\/53512266-545f-8746-64e2-4121951aafd5.jpg 1014w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online monthly sessions around communicating with babies and toddlers will be taking place on a Thursday evening at 6pm\u2013 7pm, hosted by Alice Thornton, a highly specialist Speech and Language Therapist.<\/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-18745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-17 15:18:07","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\/18745","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=18745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18746,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18745\/revisions\/18746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}