Service specific questions:Early Talk0-5 Training
1. What does your service do?
Early Talk 0-5 training provides staff who work in early years with the knowledge and skills they need to create an environment that helps communication development for all children, to know how children’s language should develop, spot when it is going wrong and have strategies to help.
Early Talktraining has a range of courses including:
- Supporting Language and Communication
- Enhancing Language and Communication
- Working with Under Threes
- Working with Parents and Families
2. Where is it located and what areas does it cover?
Early Talktraining can be delivered to any early years setting. As it is structured around the Early Years Foundation Stage it is most effective in England. Contact I CAN for information about providers of Early Talk training in your local area.
3. Who does your service provide for?
Early Talk training has a range of courses:
Early TalkSupporting Language and Communicationtraining covers language and communication development in all children from 0-5 years. It aims to increase practitioners’ knowledge of typical communication and language and has strategies to support language development. A useful toolkit of resources is provided for all participants.
Early TalkEnhancing Communication and Language is acourse for practitioners to identify and support those children with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN) within their setting, working with parents and other professionals to support them.
Working with Under Threesis a one-day course that both enhances practitioners’ knowledge, and gives them strategies they can use to support communication and language development right from the start of a child’s life. As part of the training, participants receive a range of helpful resources.
Working with Parents and Families is a one-day course that will help practitioners give support to parents and carers about early communication development.
4. How can I start using the service?
Settings can buy Early Talk training from I CAN directly or locally from an I CAN Early TalkLicensee. Visit for more information or contact us to find details of practitioners providing Early Talk training in your local area.
5. How are decisions made about who can use your service?
Any early years setting or anyone who works with preschool children can buy the training. Early Talk Supporting Language and Communication will be used by all children in a setting. Early Talk Enhancing Language and Communication will be beneficial to all children, but particularly useful for staff working with children with SLCN. This training can help to make sure that the setting that your child attends is the right place for them, and means that everyone will be able to support their language and communication.
6. How do you communicate with service users and how are theyinvolved in decision making/planning?
Early Talktraining materials include advice for parents and the toolkits included have materials and support specially designed to support parents in developing their children’s speech, language and communication. .
7. What training have the staff supporting children and young people withSEND had or are having?
The Supporting Language and Communication training programme is designed for all children’s communication skills. The Enhancing Language and Communicationcourse focuses more on children who need extra support for their SLCN, increasing the ability of staff to provide them with the extra help they need.
8. Who can I contact for further information?
Enquiries can be sent to or see our website for further details.
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