Enhancing Early Communication Skills Through LIFT Program

Explore the Language Is Fun Together (LIFT) intervention designed to support early years communication skills. LIFT involves parent workshops facilitated by nursery staff and speech therapy support, encouraging parents to engage in Stay and Play activities to enhance their child's language development at home. Tips such as adding to your child's language and using more comments than questions during playtime are emphasized to foster a rich language environment for young children.

• Early communication
• Language development
• Parent workshops
• Stay and Play
• LIFT program

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1. Language Is Fun Together An Intervention for Early Years

2. What is LIFT? LIFT was a project from Stirling and Clackmannanshire, now being run across Midlothian, and parts of Edinburgh It involved parent workshops run by nursery staff with Speech and Language Therapy support. The aim was to give all parents ways of improving their children's communication skills

3. Stay and Play To have fun and play with your child! The aim is for you to learn some new skills to build your child s language at home. LIFT is the everyday experience children have at home which are key to building their language e.g. bath time ,stories ,walk to the shop. The experiences children have at home have a higher impact than nursery.

4. Add to your childs language Your child s use of language will change and develop. Always add on another word to the words they use. Car - blue car Fast car - Fast shiny car A big dog - A big furry dog Quack quack - Duck goes Quack

5. Fewer Questions More Comments When playing together try to use lots of words to help your child learn new words and match this to the level of your child's language. For example: You are playing carswith your child. Instead of what s your car doing? You could say: 1. Your have the blue car 2. The car is driving fast 3. The car has stopped at the traffic lights 4. The car goes brum, beep beep 2. Fast car 1. Blue car 3. Stop, lights 4. brrmmmm