Advice and resources Early language development workshops

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:

  • 9 out of 10 people said they would recommend this workshop to a friend, family member or colleague
  • 94% rated their knowledge after the workshop as good or excellent
  • 93% rated their confidence after the workshop as either somewhat or extremely confident.

“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.”

Communication Foundations

  • Does your child struggle to pay attention to you?
  • Do they only pay fleeting attention to you or their toys?
  • Do they find it difficult to allow or tolerate you sitting next to them?
  • Do they struggle to use words to communicate?

The Early Years Speech and Language Therapy Team will be talking about different strategies that may support your child.

7 January 2026
9.30am
Use our online form to register

Communication Building Blocks

  • Does your child have a limited number of words?
  • Do they only use short phrases?

The Early Years Speech and Language Therapy Team will be sharing ways you can support your child’s early language development. 

14 January 2026
9.30am
Use our online form to register

Scaffolding Communication

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.

There are no dates for 2026 yet, please check again later.

Helping Children with Unclear Speech

  • Does your child struggle to use clear speech sounds?
  • Is it hard to understand what they are saying?

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.

28 January 2026
9.30am
Use our online form to register

Autism and Communication

Important information about your personal data

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.