WellComm Early Years: Supporting language at home

This section contains a selection of videos designed to help parents and carers understand how they can better support their child’s general language development, and the very simple strategies they can use to affect this.

Strategies include:

  • Repetition
  • Using choices
  • Using questions
  • Simplifying instructions
  • Giving clues

These videos can be used by early years settings and schools to develop and improve communication with parents via parenting sessions, language support classes and training workshops etc.

Support Videos

Supporting Language at home

1 Year Olds - Face-to-face

2 Year Olds - Face-to-face

3 Year Olds - Following the child's lead