Specialist speech and language therapist Hannah Murtagh and specialist midwife Sally Roberts both work with teenagers who are pregnant or mothers as part of Flying Start, Wales's early intervention programme aimed at families with children under the age of four. During a joint home visit, a young mother asked them, 'Do I need to talk to my baby?'
'The question was the main impetus for the DVD developed by Flying Start in Swansea,' says Sally Roberts. 'Some teenage parents do not realise the importance of talking to their babies, particularly at the early non-verbal stage of communication development.'
Joining them was community nursery nurse Sian Suggett. 'We felt it was really important to come together from different fields and share our expertise,' she says.
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