Our Early Years team are pleased to offer monthly online workshops covering early language development. They are designed for parents and carers and those working within early years settings. Please see below for more information on the sessions and how to register.
We've had some great feedback from previous attendees:
“Lovely, positive approach from the speakers; the strategies recommended were accessible and the speakers gave great explanation of how they could be implemented. I feel much more positive about helping my child to communicate now.”
We’re excited to announce that our Early Years Speech & Language Therapy Team (ESLT) will be visiting sites across Berkshire on the Health Bus.
Our Speech & Language Therapists will be available for questions from 9am to 12pm, on 14 July 2025.
Our live workshop will run from 9.30am to 10.30am.
The Health Bus will visit the north car park in the ASDA in Lower Earley.
The Early Years Speech and Language Therapy Team will be talking about different strategies that may support your child.
| Date | Time | How to register |
|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2025 | 9.30am to 10.30am | Use our online form to register |
| 3 October 2025 | 1pm to 2pm | Use our online form to register |
| 3 November 2025 | 9.30am to 10.30am | Use our online form to register |
| 1 December 2025 | 9.30am to 10.30am | Use our online form to register |
| Date | Time | How to register |
|---|---|---|
| 10 September 2025 | 10am to 11am |
Use our online form to register You can also attend the workshop in person. Our team will be out on the Health Bus at Morrisons Off Basingstoke Road, Reading, RG2 0HB between 9am to 12pm. They will also be available for questions before and after. |
| 10 October 2025 |
1pm to 2pm |
Use our online form to register |
| 10 November 2025 |
9.30am to 10.30am |
Use our online form to register |
| 1 December 2025 |
1pm to 2pm |
Use our online form to register |
The Early Years Speech and Language Therapy Team will provide an overview of how we can use gestures, objects and pictures to support language development.
| Date | Time | How to register |
|---|---|---|
| 17 September 2025 | 9.30am to 10.30am | Use our online form to register |
| 17 October 2025 | 1pm to 2pm | Use our online form to register |
| 17 November 2025 | 9.30am to 10.30am | Use our online form to register |
| 8 December 2025 | 9.30am to 10.30am | Use our online form to register |
The Early Years Speech and Language Therapy Team will go through how speech sounds typically develop, the difficulties children can face, and how to help your child develop clear speech sounds.
| Date | Time | How to register |
|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2025 | 9.30am to 10.30am | Use our online form to register |
| 24 October 2025 | 1pm to 2pm | Use our online form to register |
| 24 November 2025 | 9.30am to 10.30am | Use our online form to register |
| 8 December 2025 | 1pm to 2pm | Use our online form to register |
Every child is unique. In this workshop the team will run through the speech, language and communication differences which your child may experience. The team will also provide some strategies which you can use to ensure your child understands and can be understood as much as possible.
This workshop is suitable for families and settings who support children with autism or suspected social communication differences.
| Date | Time | How to register |
|---|---|---|
| 24 September 2025 | 1pm to 2pm | Use our online form to register |
| 31 October 2025 | 1pm to 2pm | Use our online form to register |
| 24 November 2025 | 11am to 12pm | Use our online form to register |
| 15 December 2025 | 9.30am to 10.30am | Use our online form to register |
When you visit the link for the training session, Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust will use the information you provide for service development purposes. Your email address will only be accessible to those Berkshire Healthcare staff involved in the delivery of the training.
Personal data will be deleted after the webinar, your information will not be shared with any third party and you will not be contacted by Berkshire Healthcare as a result of this training, unless safeguarding concerns arise from the session around your own, or your child’s wellbeing. If this is the case, data will be used to escalate appropriately to the safeguarding team.
Cameras and microphones will remain disabled throughout the session.
However if you do not select ‘Join as a guest’ at the time of the training, your name will be visible to other attendees.
Please select ‘Join as a guest’ when you enter and choose a name unrelated to you.