Outcomes for

• Children:

  • TalkiPlay helps all children to improve their attention, listening understanding and expressive language.  TalkiPlay also supports social and emotional development by enhancing a child’s confidence, motivation, and self-esteem.
  • For children who have speech and language challenges, TalkiPlay levels the playing field to make language more accessible.
  • For children who may have typically emerging or advanced language development, TalkiPlay can provide extension and opportunities for increased quality of peer interaction.

• Educators:

  Early childhood educators will demonstrate an increase in purposeful, play based communication strategies with children, including:

  • Initiating increased verbal interactions with children
  • Observing verbal & non-verbal cues that indicated children’s interests
  • Responding to child interests with language development learning games
  • Facilitating inclusive language practice with children of differing language abilities

• Your Service:

  • Increased parent/caregiver engagement
  • Improved Educator well-being and professional knowledge.
  • TalkiPlay will allow you to actively address areas for improvement identified on QIP and SIP.

Consider the following questions when reviewing your service’s data when preparing  your Kindy Uplift plan...

• Child Level data:

  • How many children enrolled in your service have a diagnosed disability or developmental delay?
  • How many children require have an individual learning plan due to speech and language challenges?
  • Did your pre-Kindy teacher raise concerns about any children who may communication challenges?
  • How many children are enrolled in your service who are learning English as their second language?
  • Have you received specialist reports or Speech Pathology treatment plans but are unsure how to implement them at Kindy?
  • Do you have children enrolled who are  demonstrating low social or challenging behaviours?

• Service Level Data:

  • Have you identified a need to enrich language experiences as an area for improvement on your service’s QIP?
  • Have you wanted to improve or extend you services use of innovative technology and documented this on your QIP?
  • Does TalkiPlay’s mission and values align with your service’s statement or philosophy?
  • Has your team benefited from engaging with a speech pathologist previously and want to extend the earning?
  • Have you identified, on your service’s SIP that diverse communication abilities of children is a barrier to inclusion?

• Community data:

  According to the AEDC Community Profile (2021), does your community have greater than 10% of children identified as developmentally vulnerable or at risk on domains of social competence or communication skills and general knowledge?

• Educator data:

  • Has speech and language support  been identified as a priority area for Professional Learning by your service’s educators?
  • Have your service’s educators expressed  low confidence  when supporting children with diverse speech and language abilities?
  • Have your service’s educator expressed feelings of discomfort or stress as a result of complex and diverse communication abilities in the Kindergarten room/s?