BBC Tiny Happy People Videos
BBC Tiny Happy People and ELIM-I
To support practitioners to deliver ELIM-I intervention with families we have collaborated with the team at Tiny Happy People to develop a suite of Super Communicator videos that demonstrate each of the 9 Super Communicator tips to parents/carers.
There is 1 overall Super Communicator video that demonstrates the concept of being a Super Communicator, and each of the 9 Super Communicator tips has a number of different supporting videos that model the tip being used by parents/carers across different daily routines with their child.
The video variations for each tip are designed to support flexible and tailored delivery of the ELIM-I intervention with families, for example, to help parents/carers to understand the target behaviour, and to understand how they might apply the behaviour across different contexts. The videos may be used with parents/carers across multiple sessions, or practitioners may choose to share a couple of them with parents/carers in one session to support understanding.
Each Super Communicator tip and video page is linked here below.
1. Getting down to your child's level
2. Following your child's lead
3. Describing what's happening
4. Pausing and waiting for your child
5. Listening, watching and responding
6. Adding words to build sentences
9. Having fun and using an interesting voice
More about BBC Tiny Happy People
The BBC Tiny Happy initiative aims to reduce the number of children starting primary school without the expected levels of communication skills by supporting parents to help develop their little ones’ vocabulary in the home learning environment.
The website is for parents and carers with children under 5 and has been created with experts to help nurture children’s language from pregnancy through to pre-school age.
It’s full of great activity ideas, science facts and tips and advice to help develop children’s language skills.
Share this free resource with families, parents/carers you work with.
Below are some useful website links which are free to use and share:
BBC Tiny Happy People – homepage
Activity Content showing parents / carers how to support their children’s language development with hundreds of fun simple activities, all organised by age.
Tips and Advice from speech and language experts, health care professionals and early years practitioners covering a wide range of parenting topics.
Science / Child Development Content showing parents why supporting language learning is important. It is all about children’s amazing brain development and how they understand the world around them.
Professional Resources curated films, articles and resources to download and use with families you work with.
