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Tiny Happy People has a lot to offer speech and language therapists when it comes to demonstrating to families the best ways of talking to and interacting with their children.

Tiny Happy People is the 成人快手's dedicated website for parents of children aged 0-4. We aim to help parents understand the role they play in their child's language development and build their confidence in talking to and interacting with their children from bump to preschool.

Tiny Happy People films can be used by Speech and Language Therapists and SLT students when setting individual or group targets for children who have been referred to their service, both to explain the reasoning behind the target and to demonstrate how an activity could be carried out. Each of the activities has been given an age based on typical developmental stage, however, these can be used with children of different ages at your discretion based on the target behaviour you're looking to address.

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Below are some of the best places for speech and language therapists to start exploring the site by different target behaviours as selected by speech and language therapist Janet Cooper. To explore different speech and language target areas, please click the appropriate heading.

Early interaction and pre-verbal skills

Turn-taking

Learning to take turns is an important skill for children to learn in order to become used to the back and forth of conversation.

Tips for parents on turn-taking. video

Dr Guddi Singh explains why turn-taking is important as a pre-cursor to conversation.

Tips for parents on turn-taking

Demonstrations of simple turn-taking games. video

A film showing different simple turn-taking games between parents and toddlers.

Demonstrations of simple turn-taking games

Taking turns with a ball. video

A film showing a simple ball passing game between parent and child.

Taking turns with a ball

Shared attention

Peek-a-boo for joint attention. video

A film modelling how peek-a-boo can be used to build joint attention.

Peek-a-boo for joint attention

Object permanence

Object permanence is the idea that when things disappear from your child's sight, they still exist.

Toy hide and seek. video

An activity to support babies' sense of object permanence.

Toy hide and seek

Symbolic play

Why is imaginative play so great for children?

An article explaining the benefits of imaginative play to parents.

Why is imaginative play so great for children?

Early pretend play with a teddy. video

This films shows parents how to encourage early pretend play using a teddy bear to model bedtime routines.

Early pretend play with a teddy

Playing make believe. video

A film showing parents how to encourage their child through sequential symbolic play.

Playing make believe

Listening and attention

Shared attention

Why is tuning into baby so important? video

A film demonstrating the importance of shared attention to parents through an experiment. Can be used to help explain joint attention as a target for speech and language.

Why is tuning into baby so important?

Joint attention and everyday routines. video

Joint attention can be easily built into routines like putting out laundry.

Joint attention and everyday routines

Using sounds for engagement

Clapping games and rhythm. video

A film showing how parents can encourage simple clapping games to help children listen out for rhythm and increase participation in interactions.

Clapping games and rhythm

Making noise together. video

A film showing parents how pots and pans and simple shakers can be used for gaining children's attention in play.

Making noise together

Environmental sounds

Sensory walks. video

A film showing parents how to take their child on a sensory walk, encouraging them to listen out for sounds in their environment.

Sensory walks

Listening for sounds. video

Talking to baby about sounds as you explore the world can encourage them to listen and connect the words you say with the sounds they hear.

Listening for sounds

Understanding and expression

First words

What first words are common and why?

An article explaining how first words develop and which are likely to be children's first words.

What first words are common and why?

Naming body parts. video

A film modelling naming body parts for children. Can support a single word understanding target for body parts.

Naming body parts

Early comprehension

Pointing and naming. video

A film showing how parents can follow children's attention to name things in their environment. Can be used to support a single name understanding target.

Pointing and naming

How actions support first words. video

A tips film explaining how actions and gestures can help with understanding word sounds.

How actions support first words

Early sentence construction

Helping toddlers build longer sentences. video

A film explaining the recasting technique to help correct mistakes and build longer sentences. Can be useful to support early sentence construction, making phrases with multiple words and building comprehension.

Helping toddlers build longer sentences

Using verbs at the playpark. video

An activity to support embedding verbs into everyday situations - would support a verb use target.

Using verbs at the playpark

Practising talk about the past and future

The importance of using different tenses. video

A film explaining how getting children to think about the past and future can improve their communication skills. Includes activity suggestions to encourage discussion of the past and future.

The importance of using different tenses

Talking about the past. video

A film modelling how parents can ask lots of questions to encourage children to talk about the past. Would support comprehension targets for past tense and early sentence construction at the 4 +word level

Talking about the past

The tomorrow game - talking about the future. video

A film showing how parents can encourage talk about future events by asking lots of questions.

The tomorrow game - talking about the future

Understanding conceptual language

Concept of opposites. video

A film modelling parents talking to their children about opposites like big and small, open and shut and on and off. Good for helping consolidate early concept words.

Concept of opposites

Concept of textures. video

A film showing parents how they can build language for textures into sorting laundry with their child, showing how conceptual language can be built into everyday situations.

Concept of textures

Expressive language

First words

What's in the bag? video

A film demonstrating a 'what's in the bag?' game, along with explanations of how the game can be adapted for different abilities. Would support early first words targets.

What's in the bag?

Bathtime words. video

A film modelling how bathtime routines can offer an opportunity for children to learn early words.

Bathtime words

Sharing books. video

Books can be great props to support children's first words.

Sharing books

Understanding of 1-2 word level

Expanding on single words. video

An explanation of how parents can expand on their children's single words to model short phrases, adding just one or two words when repeating back to them.

Expanding on single words

Listening to instructions. video

A film demonstrating how activities like pegging out washing can help children practise following simple instructions.

Listening to instructions

Making choices at breakfast time. video

Offering choices can help get children to expand upon single words.

Making choices at breakfast time

Early sentence production

Helping children build longer sentences. video

An explanation of how to recast and expand upon children's words to model longer phrases and sentences. Suitable for early sentence production targets.

Helping children build longer sentences

Speech sounds - parents' questions answered

Ideal for referring parents to where children have specific speech sound issues.

Speech sounds - parents' questions answered

Early sound play - blowing raspberries. video

Film modelling blowing raspberries as an early sound to make with children 鈥 would support a non-speech sound making target.

Early sound play - blowing raspberries

Introduction to phonological awareness. video

Two films explaining phonological awareness to parents. Useful for speech targets.

Introduction to phonological awareness

Rhyming. video

A demonstration of the importance of rhyme to children's phonological awareness.

Rhyming

Sound sorting game. video

An activity to challenge children's understanding of the initial sounds in words.

Sound sorting game

General useful links

Tools for Talking - key language tips by children's ages. collection

Our Tools for Talking clips provide factual information on supporting early communication in an accessible way - great for sharing with parents and carers attending speech and language therapy appointments.

Tools for Talking - key language tips by children's ages

The Speech Lab - key language tips in action. collection

The Speech Lab films are great for illustrating the science and facts behind early communication development - great for explaining to families why you have set certain targets to work on.

The Speech Lab - key language tips in action

Activities for language learning. collection

The activities page can be used to signpost families to relevant games and activities that will help build their child鈥檚 communication skills. Activities are listed by age range for typical communication ability, but may be used by families with children of any age at your discretion.

Activities for language learning

SEND and Speech and Language. collection

Information and advice for families on a range of conditions that can affect children's speech and language abilities.

SEND and Speech and Language

Tiny Happy People social channels

The Tiny Happy People and channels are a really accessible way for parents to access our advice on speech and language development and a range of other parenting topics, including support for their own wellbeing.

Why not show parents the channels and suggest they follow us?

We also have a to share best practice and find resources to help them from across the Tiny Happy People website - why not join yourself?

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