Talk with Me is a community-based language-development service staffed by specialized speech-language pathologists offering free prevention, promotion and education services.
The Talk with Me service is designed for families with children from birth through five years of age. It assists children in learning to speak and listen and prepares them for learning to read and write. The Talk with Me service provides information and instruction to parents, community-based partners and the general public.
Talk with Me and Help Me Learn
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You will be able to...
- Better understand what your child is trying to say.
- Know how to help your child to communicate.
- Learn how to start and maintain a conversation with your child.
Talk with your child about...
- What you are doing.
- What your child is doing.
- Things around you.
- Anything your child finds interesting.
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You will be able to...
- Learn how to read to your child.
- Know why children who speak more effectively also read better.
- Practise sound games to assist your child in learning about sounds, letters and words.
A child who plays is a child who learns.
Parents who play with their children are parents who teach.
Here are some examples of sessions
offered to families with children aged 0 to 5 years:
Baby Communicates
Come play with your baby and learn how you can help prepare your child for speaking even at this age. This session is designed for parents with babies 0 to 12 months of age.
Mother Goose Program
This program is group sessions for parents and their babies and young children with a focus on storytelling, nursery rhymes and songs. Use music to stimulate your child's language development. This program features one session a week for 10 weeks for parents or other caring adults and their children. The Mother Goose program offers sessions to groups of infants between 0 and 2 years of age and young children between 2 and 4.
Help to set your child up for success now. Contact us for more information:
Edmundston:
Michèle O'Connell, Speech-Language Pathologist
506-739-2863
michele.oconnell@vitalitenb.ca
Grand Falls, St-Quentin, Kedgwick:
Julie Boucher, Speech-Language Pathologist
506-475-2863 / 506-235-2863
julie.boucher2@vitalitenb.ca |
