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Early Communication

Professional Development for Early Childhood Teams


Helping Early Childhood services identify and include children with communication difficulties.

Supporting your team...
Are you a service manager, director or educational leader wanting to:

✔ help your team feel more confident and less stressed including children with communication needs

✔ explore new ways to include and connect with children with communication differences

✔ offer professional development in a flexible and affordable way

reach an interaction or communication goal you've set in your QIP for quality areas 1 or 5

Explore how you can achieve your goals through:
Workshops, the Early Communication Toolkit or Mentoring.
Support Visits
Learning through face-to-face support to get straight to what your team and families need in the moment

Flexible visits from Speech Pathologist, Cathryn, are designed to give your team and families the support, resources and skills they need to confidently:
  • identify children with communication difficulties
  • partner with families about supports for their child
  • set goals and plan for children with communication difficulties
  • embed effective communication strategies into practise
Book a free chat to discuss your team's needs.


Professional Learning Workshops
To build knowledge, inspire and encourage reflection in your Team

Choose from popular early communication topics or work with us to build your own workshop. All workshops include:
  • At least one live session
  • Related resources to learn strategies
  • 5 week follow up support to embed new ideas
Early Communication Toolkit
Affordable, tailored support to include a child with communication difficulties

Educators login and answer a few questions about the child they want to support. Upon completion, they immediately receive:
  • Strategies to support that child's communication
  • Ideas about how to partner with the family
  • Related professional learning in snappy audio/ video clips
  • Planning and reflection supports
Based on an adult learning principles and responsive, play and routine based strategies.

Only $9 or less per educator.


Let's plan together...
Hi!
I'm Cathryn, Speech Pathologist, and founder of Chat Play Fly. I started Chat Play Fly so that every early childhood service like yours, could access the early communication information they needed, when they needed it!

Book a free chat to tell me more about your service and we can explore together what could help you meet your goals.
Written by Speech Pathologists for Educators

All of the resources on this website are written by Speech Pathologists, specifically for use in the early learning environment. All of the strategies and recommendations are play and routine based and child led. They also emphasise the important role of partnering with families. This is in line with EYLF principles, early intervention best practice and current evidence-based strategies for communication development.