Nurseries across the country are being urged to promote children's communication skills as the National Year of Speech, Language and Communication gets underway.
The campaign, which has been named Hello, aims to help the 1.2 million children and young people in the UK who have some form of long-term speech, language and communication needs.
Jean Gross, Communication Champion and leader of the National Year (pictured, right), tells Nursery World that the Communication Trust, the charity behind the campaign, is already hearing examples of innovative activities designed to promote children's communication skills from all over the Britain.
She says, 'In the London Borough of Wandsworth, for example, practitioners are organising a competition to look at people's favourite words, which they are putting on to balloons and launching at Wandsworth Museum. It's a perfect example of the local energy that is getting behind the campaign.
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