Talk To Your Baby 2019: From the National Agenda to the Front Line

Talk To Your Baby 2019: From the National Agenda to the Front Line

Event Details

This year’s conference will explore and celebrate the arrival of early years as a national priority, looking at the critical window of opportunity from conception to age two for language acquisition.

Lucy Powell, MP for Manchester Central, will be providing the opening keynote at this year’s conference and she will be joined by academics, policymakers and front-line practitioners. We will explore local activity, key policy issues and how they inform – and are informed by – our understanding of early language acquisition.

The first speakers and their speech topics have been announced:

• Susie Owen, Deputy Director for Early Years, Department for Education
• Cerys Griffiths, BBC, ‘BBC’s early years strategy’
• Professor Ludovica Serratrice, University of Reading and LuCiD Centre and Sharon Freeman, University of Manchester and LuCiD Centre, ‘Language of babies in bilingual families’
• Nick Skinner and Jenny Tosh, London Borough of Enfield,  ‘Singing to your baby’
• National Literacy Trust Manchester team, ‘Activity in early years settings in Greater Manchester’
• Professor Elizabeth Meins, University of York, ‘Mind-mindedness and child development’
• Professor Anna Theakston, University of Manchester and LuCiD Centre, ‘Latest research on the effect of babies’ environment on later language learning’
• Tracey Jevons-Hazzard, Children’s Outcomes Manager, Small Steps Big Changes, ‘Nottingham’s 10 year “A Better Start” Big Lottery Funded Programme to improve the outcomes of 0-3 years olds’

Fees and Booking

Standard Rate: £205.00 per person.

Special Rate for EY Matters Subscribers: £175.00 per person. please use the special discount code, TTYBEYM, at checkout

For more information and to book – please visit the dedicated webpage