A programme has been launched in England to help children learn how to talk even before they start primary school. This is because of an increasing number of children with poor language skills.
The Early Talk programme uses gestures, symbols and signing to expand the vocabulary of children and will be piloted in 200 government-backed children’s centres.
The Early Talk programme will teach nursery staff, childminders and parents the basic skills they need to enhance children’s speech, language and communication.
You can read more on the BBC News article. And I hope that the programme will be a success.
As for my little Matthew, he definitely doesn’t have poor language skills. He is quite conversant and chatty when he’s in the right mood. He might not have the necessary vocabulary yet to fully express himself, but he can definitely understand what we are saying. And it was heartening to hear from his childcare teacher that he even understand the Mandarin instructions that she gave give that my level of Mandarin is not that fantastic.
Well, I believe his language and social skills were built up in his childcare centre. In addition, we made sure that we spoke to him in proper English (without baby talk) from the time he was born. I guess all these factors helped in his social, communicative and language development.
Am actually quite proud of him! 
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